Recaraceria hormoterma ( Meyrick, 1938 ) Razowski & Aarvik & Prins, 2010

Razowski, Józef, Aarvik, Leif & Prins, Jurate De, 2010, 2469, Zootaxa 2469, pp. 1-77 : 23-24

Recaraceria hormoterma ( Meyrick, 1938) , comb. n. ( Figs 36, 80)

Argyroploce hormoterma Meyrick, 1938 . Institut des Parcs nationaux du Congo belge 14: 10; pl. 1, fig. 8. Brown 2005. World Catalogue of Insects 5: 450 (unplaced species).

Lectotype male. Here designated. Label data (10): "Type A., hormoterma M."; "Musée du Congo, Kibati (1900), 10–20.i.1934, G. F. de Witte, Parc Nat. Albert, 160"; " Congo belge: Kivu, Kibati, 1900 m. 10 – 20.i.1934, G. F. de Witte: 160"; " E. Meyrick det., 1937: Argyroploce , hormoterma Meyr. "; " R. Dét., 4079, CC "; "Ex-Typis"; "P332"; " ♂ "; " Lectotype, Argyroploce hormoterma, Meyrick, 1938 (male), Design. L. Aarvik, 1998, Genital prep. LAA 98005; " MRAC / KMMA 00342 "; specimen ID: RMCA ENT 000005003 ( Fig. 36).

Male genitalia ( Fig. 80). Tegumen rather small; pedunculi slender, long; socius small, weakly sclerotized; valva large with broad, densely spiny lobe at the posterior edge of basal cavity, and broad cucullus; sacculus large, slightly convex postbasally, strongly expanded postmedially, with ventral processes medially accompanied by bunch of setae; sclerotic lobe dorsally terminating before base of cucullus; no ventral incision of valva; aedeagus large, slender postmedially.

Remarks. Described from 2 male specimens. The male paralectotype was supposed to be in BMNH, however, it was not found there (K. Tuck, pers. comm.). The lectotype was selected by Aarvik in 1998 but was not published until the present paper.