Tagoria dierli Yakovlev & Zolotuhin, 2021

Yakovlev, Roman V. & Zolotuhin, Vadim V., 2021, Revision of the family Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera) of the Oriental Region. IV. Genus Tagoria Yakovlev & Zolotuhin, gen. nov., Ecologica Montenegrina 43, pp. 38-43 : 42-43

Tagoria dierli Yakovlev & Zolotuhin , sp. nov.

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Material. Holotype, male, Nepal, Rapti Tal, Monahari Khola, Belwa , 350 m, 12.v.1967, leg. Dierl, Forster & Schacht ( ZSM, slide ZSM-Coss 2016/3).

Description. Male. Length of fore wing 12 mm. Fore wing brown, with dim dark-brown portions at root and postdiscally, small light portion discally (in cubital area), border creamy, fringe brown. Hind wing brown, without pattern, border creamy, fringe brown.

Male genitalia. Uncus thin, long, slightly extended apically, with wide semicircular bifurcation, uncus halves thick, widely diverging to sides; subscaphium strongly extended dorsally, with very long narrow abdominal end, funnel-shaped; gnathos arms short, lamellar; gnathos lamellar with long thin lateral processes; valve slightly elongated, costal edge almost smooth, outer edge semicircular, saccular edge strongly curved, sclerotized, with small harpe, saccus tiny, juxta lamellar, semicircular; phallus very small, slightly curved on border between distal and medium thirds, equal to 1/3 of valve in length, with strongly extended coecum, vesica aperture in dorso-apical position, about 1/2 of phallus in length, vesica without cornuti.

Female unknown.

Diagnosis. T. dierli differs from T. watsoni in the darker pattern, poorly expressed postdiscal band, narrow valve and long subscaphium.

Etymology. The species is named after the well-known German entomologist Wolfgang Dierl (1935−1996), specialist in Psychidae , explorer of the entomofauna of Nepal, one of the collectors of the new species.

Distribution. Nepal (Mid-Western Region)

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Figure 8. Distributional map of Tagoria.

Figures 1−4. Adult specimens of Tagoria: 1. T. watsoni, male, syntype (NHMUK); 2. T. watsoni, male, Madras (NHMUK); 3. T. watsoni, female, Madras (NHMUK); 4. T. dierli, male, holotype (ZSM).

Figures 5−7. Genitalia of Tagoria: 5. T. watsoni, male, Madras (slide NHMUK: 010315539); 6. T. dierli, male, holotype (slide ZSM-Coss 2016/3); 7. T. watsoni, female, Madras (slide NHMUK: 010315540).