Glyphidocera notae, DAVID ADAMSKI, 2005

DAVID ADAMSKI, 2005, Review of Glyphidocera Walsingham of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Glyphidoceridae), Zootaxa 858, pp. 1-158 : 67-69

Glyphidocera notae , new species

(Figs. 105–107, 322, Map 20 )

Diagnosis.— Glyphidocera notae is most similar to G. lanae but differs from the latter by having abdominal sex scales between terga 2–3 in male, and a broader valval cucullus.

Description.— Head: Scales on vertex and frontoclypeus grayish brown tipped with pale grayish brown; outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with pale grayish­yellow scales to apical margin of segment II, inner surface pale grayish yellow intermixed with few brown scales; scape pale grayish brown intermixed with few brown scales, flagellum with alternating bands of brown and pale­brown scales; male 4th flagellomere dorsally protuberant and curved, forming a shallow concavity opposite slightly excavated flagellomeres 5–6; concavity nearly closed by a few setiform scales on apex of protuberance of 4th flagellomere; proboscis pale grayish brown.

Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum pale grayish brown. Legs brown intermixed with pale brownish­yellow scales to apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres [some specimens with hindlegs pale brownish yellow with banding absent]. Forewing (Fig. 322): Length 6.5 –7.9 mm (n = 21), pale brownish yellow intermixed with few brown scales; cell with 2 large, brown spots, 1 near middle, 1 near distal end; one spot one CuP basal to midcell spot; marginal spots present or absent. Undersurface brown except, pale grayish­brown scales along costa. Hindwing: Pale gray intermixed sparsely with pale brownish­yellow scales.

Abdomen (Fig. 105): Male with 3 transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental membrane between terga 2–3.

Male Genitalia (Figs. 106–107): Uncus elongate, wide at base, broadly constricted near midlength, broadly rounded apically, apex narrowly rounded and setose; gnathos setose, protuberant, narrow throughout length, upturned apically; tegumen slightly widened basally, dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent, fusing medially, gradually widening at constriction, beneath base of uncus; costa of valva broadly sloped downwards from a shallow depression slightly beyond a slanted, basal digitate process to apical furca; furca falcate; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva slightly before midlength, widening distoventrally, forming an elongate and broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose; vesica of aedeagus sparsely denticulate, bearing a stout, crescent­shaped, apical cornutus; cornutus slightly shortened on one side, exposing a hollow, basal cavity.

Female Genitalia: Unknown.

Holotype, ɗ, “Est[ación] Cacao, 1000–1400 m, Lado Suroeste del Volcán Cacao, Prov[incia] Guan[acaste], COSTA RICA, C. Chaves, 25 Set.–11 Oct. 1990, L­N­323300, 375700”, “INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI000, 390173” [bar code label], “INBio, ɗ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 934” [yellow label].

Paratypes (20 ɗ): 9 ɗ, Same label data as holotype except, “CRI000, 390180”, “Slide No. 935”; “CRI000, 590757”, “Slide No. 938”; “CRI000, 390188”, “Slide No. 942”; “CRI000, 390220”; “CRI000, 390356”; “CRI000, 390164”; “CRI000, 390218”; “CRI000, 577747”; “CRI000, 590634”; 2 ɗ, “ Set. 1991 ”, “CRI000, 357390”, “Slide No. 949”; “CRI000, 357305”, “Slide No. 937”; 6 ɗ, “ Abr. 1991 ”, “CRI000, 319517”, “Slide No. 933”; “CRI000, 319838”, “Slide No. 936”; “CRI000, 319437”; “CRI000, 328822”; “CRI000, 319697”; “CRI000, 319530”; “ 23 Oct.–9 Nov. 1990 ”, “CRI000, 316216”, “Slide No. 944”; “CRI000, 316269”; “CRI000, 315887”, (11 in INBio, 9 in USNM).

Distribution ( Map 20 ): Glyphidocera notae is known from a single locality in northwestern Costa Rica along the Cordillera de Guanacaste.

Etymology: The species epithet notae is derived from the Latin “nota,” meaning mark.

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MAP 20. Distribution of Glyphidocera notae () and G. cenae ().