Homadaula calamitosa (Meyrick, 1930)

Mey, Wolfram, 2022, Unexpected diversity: ten new species of Homadaula Lower, 1899 from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (Galacticoidea: Galacticidae), Metamorphosis 33 (1), pp. 21-33 : 22-23

Homadaula calamitosa (Meyrick, 1930)

Material: 1 ♀, Uganda, Western, Budongo Forest , 3000 ft., 19.vii.2000, leg. D. Agassiz, genitalia in glycerol vial (coll. Agassiz); 8 ♀, Zimbabwe, Manicaland, Bvumba , 1360 m, 19°03′33′′S 32°42′41′′E, 3–5.xi.2016, leg. D. Agassiz & K. Larsen, genitalia slide Mey 48/21, (coll. Agassiz and MfN) .

Female genitalia: ( Fig. 1 ). Tergum VII densely covered by dark brown scales; henia very long, curved, emerging from sclerotised base of intersegmental pocket, bearing short process directed proximad; bulla seminalis present, bursa copulatrix with paired, linear signum on dorsal side close to origin of ductus bursae, ductus seminalis emerging from bulla seminalis.

Remarks: The males of H. calamitosa are still unknown. In the female genitalia, the short basal process of the intersegmental pocket is observed only in this species.

Figures

Figure 1 – Homadaula calamitosa Meyrick, 1930, female genitalia, a – lateral view, b -tergum VII, dorsal aspect¸ scale bar: 0.4 mm.