Saccharodite scissa Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 125-126

Saccharodite scissa Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings 2.0 times longer than wide, length in male 2.9–3.3 mm (mean = 3.1, n = 10). Colour stramineous to light brown; margins of facial carinae above eyes orange; fore tarsi tinted with orange. Forewings glassy, very faintly infuscated from apex of Cu to end of first costal cell, around base of Ms2, and along apical crossveins; last subcostal sector surrounded by a bright red mark; veins stramineous, light brown to light orangebrown in the faintly infuscated areas; veins at the base of Ms3 dark brown; 3 dark marks at the base of Sc+R. In profile junction of vertex and face slightly angulated; rostrum reaching post trochanter; subantennal processes connected to margins of facial carinae by a low ridge. Forewings with Sc+R fork just before middle of wing; basal median cell broad, more than twice a wide as basal cell between Sc+R and M; a small triangle at base of Ms1. Male genitalia with pygofer narrow. Genital styles elongated; proximal dorsal process short and narrow; distal dorsal process long. Aedeagus stem slender; apical portion large, ending in two overlapping and pointed lobes.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective or participle (scissus, -a, -um = cut off).

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.2 mm), EAST MALAYSIA: NORTH BORNEO: SABAH; labels: 1) NORTH BORNEO ( SE)/ Forest Camp, 19 km / N. of Kalabakan / 30.X.1962 2) K.J. Kuncheria / Collector / BISHOP ( BPBM) . Paratypes. same data as holotype, 19,30. X.1962, 11 ♂ (fw. 3x 3.0, 4x 3.1, 3.2, 3.3), K.J. Kuncheria ( BPBM) .

Distribution. North Borneo.

Diagnosis. Saccharodite scissa is closely related to Sa. foliata sp. nov., also from Borneo. It can be distinguished by the male aedeagus having two pointed terminal processes and lacking a flat process on the left side of the stem.