Eridachtha gymnopalpa ( Janse, 1963 ), 2024

Park, Kyu-Tek, Minet, Joël, Koo, Jun-Mo & Yu, Tae-Uk, 2024, Review of the Afrotropical members of the genus Eridachtha Meyrick, 1910 (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae: Lecithocerinae), with descriptions of 12 new species, Zootaxa 5468 (2), pp. 275-307 : 280

Eridachtha gymnopalpa ( Janse, 1963) , comb. nov.

Atrichozancla gymnopalpa Janse, 1963: 246 ; Park & De Prins 2019: 67 ; Park et al. 2021: 356. TL: Zimbabwe. [TMSA].

Material examined. Zimbabwe: 1♂ ( lectotype, type no. 4425, designated by Park & De Prins, 2019: 67), in TMSA . Paralectotypes ( 5♂, 18♀, gen. slide nos. 2997 ( ♂), 8347 ( ♂), CIS-7206 ( ♂)), in TMSA .

Diagnosis. Wingspan 16.0–17.0 mm. See Janse (1954: Pl. 134e). Head, antenna, labial palpus, and forewing ground colour yellowish-orange. Forewing vein R 3 free. The male genitalia can be distinguished from those of E. cosymbota Meyrick as noted for the above species, having the ventral margin strongly angulate.

Male genitalia. See Janse (1963: Pl. 108); Park & De Prins (2019: Figs 4A, B ).

Female genitalia. See Janse (1960: Pl. 108 (corpus bursae); 1963: Pl. 127f, g).

Distribution. Zimbabwe.

Figures

FIGURE 4. Eridachtha phaeochlora Meyrick, 1920: A, male, holotype; B, labels; C, forewing venation (with dotted lines showing veins R3, R4 and R 5); D, male genitalia (slide J. Minet no. 1667); E, aedeagus; F, close-up of D (vinculum, tegumen and A10). Scale bar for D and E: 0.5 mm.