Acrolepiopsis jaspidata ( MEYRICK, 1919 )

Gaedike, Reinhard, 2016, New and poorly known Acrolepiinae from the Palaearctic, Afrotropical, Neotropical and Oriental regions (Lepidoptera: Glyphipterigidae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 66 (2), pp. 257-264 : 259

Acrolepiopsis jaspidata ( MEYRICK, 1919)

My collegue Bernard Landry enabled me to study some specimens of this species, collected on the Galapagos Islands (see: ROQUE-ÁLBELO & LANDRY, 2006; 2015).

1 ♀, ECU: Galapagos, Santa Cruz agriculture zone , near ( NNW) Bella Vista, 223 m, S 00°,41.297', W 90°,19.670', 7.iv.2004, leg. B. Landry; MHNG; 3 ♂, 2 ♀, ECU: Galapagos, Santa Cruz, NNW Bella Vista , 225 m, S 00°,41.293', W 90°,19.665', 18.ii.2005, leg. B. Landry; MHNG; SDEI . The series contains females, which were hitherto unknown, and it is thus possible to describe the genitalia structure for the first time ( Fig. 19 ).

Pads of lamella postvaginalis narrow, bristled; Ostium and nearly the entire ductus bursae funnel-shaped, more strongly sclerotized, in corpus bursae numerous rows of small, stronger sclerotized thorns.

The species was hitherto known only from Peru (type series).

Figures

Figs 17–23: Acrolepiopsis juratae (male: 17 – uncus-tegu- men-vinculum-saccus, valvae; 18 – phallus), Acrolepiopsis jaspidata (female: 19), Acrolepiopsis fibigeri (male: 20 – genital apparatus, one valva and phallus removed; 21 – left valva; 22 – phallus), Acrolepia peruana (male 23: left valva removed).