Glyphidocera aediculae, DAVID ADAMSKI, 2005

DAVID ADAMSKI, 2005, Review of Glyphidocera Walsingham of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Glyphidoceridae), Zootaxa 858, pp. 1-158 : 38-39

Glyphidocera aediculae , new species

(Figs. 51–53, 304, Map 9 )

Diagnosis.— Glyphidocera adrogantiae , G. f a e c i s, and G. aediculae share an abdomen with sex scales between terga 2–3 and terga 3–4, a similar sized gnathos, an upturned costal furca of the valva, a wide cucullus of the valva, and a relatively small apical cornutus of the aedeagal vesica. However, G. a e d i c u l a e differs from the latter by having a shorter and more upturned costal furca of the valva, a shorter digitate process of the valva, and a shorter valva.

Description.— Head: Scales of vertex and frontoclypeus grayish yellow tipped with pale grayish yellow; outer surface of labial palpus dark brown intermixed with grayishyellow scales, segment II with grayish­yellow scales along apical margin; inner surface grayish yellow intermixed with dark­brown scales; scape of antenna grayish brown intermixed with dark­brown scales, flagellum with alternating bands of grayish­yellow and brown scales; male 4th flagellomere not protuberant, 5th and 6th flagellomeres slightly excavated; proboscis grayish yellow.

Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum grayish yellow intermixed with few dark­brown scales basally. Legs dark brown intermixed with few pale grayish­yellow scales to apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig. 304): Length 6.1–7.0 mm (n = 15), grayish yellow intermixed with pale grayish­yellow and dark­brown scales; cell and surrounding areas paler than marginal areas; cell with 2 faint brown spots, 1 near middle, 1 near distal end. Undersurface brown except, pale grayish yellow along posterior half. Hindwing: Brownish gray.

Abdomen (Fig. 51): Male with 3 transverse, irregular rows of sex scales on intersegmental areas between terga 2–3 and terga 3–4. Sex scales on both regions are about equal in size.

Male Genitalia (Figs. 52–53): Uncus elongate, broadly constricted above a wide base, apically rounded to an rounded apex; gnathos sparsely setose, protuberant, wide throughout length, upturned apically; tegumen slightly widened basally; dorsal strut of tegumen with arms convergent from a narrow base, fusing medially from posteroventral margin to base of uncus; valva nearly straight from a shallow depression slightly beyond a basal digitate process to apical furca; furca short, acuminate, and slightly upturned; digitate process of valva short with a bulbous base; sacculus twisted apically, constricting valva near midlength, widening distoventrally forming an elongate and broadly rounded cucullus; cucullus membranous and setose, with outer margin straight from costa to apicoventral angle; vesica of aedeagus sparsely denticulate, bearing a large, conical, apical cornutus; cornutus with one side shortened near midlength, exposing a hollow, basal cavity.

Female Genitalia: Unknown.

Holotype, ɗ, “Cerro Tortuguero, 0–120 m, P[arque] N[acional] Tortuguero, Prov[incia] Limón, COSTA RICA, Set.,1992, R. Deigado, L­N­285000, 588000”, “INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI000, 840484” [bar code label], “INBio, Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, Sex ɗ, No. 576” [yellow label].

Paratypes (15 ɗ): 4 ɗ, Same label data as holotype except, “ Ene. 1992 ”, “CRI000, 536954”, “Slide No. 600”; “CRI000, 537057”, “Slide No. 577”; “CRI000, 332175”, “Slide No. 593”; “CRI000, 537011”, “Slide No. 575”; 1 ɗ, “ Jul. 1992 ”, “CRI000, 735770”, “Slide No. 601”; 1 ɗ, “ Nov. 1992 ”, “CRI000, 992130”, “Slide No. 586”; 1 ɗ, “J. Solano, Abr. 1991 ”, “CRI000, 444088”, “Slide No. 574”; 1 ɗ, “ May. 1991 ”, “CRI001, 399177”, “Slide No. 594”; 2 ɗ, “Sector Cerro Cocori, Fca. de E. Rojas, 150 m, Prov. Limón, COSTA RICA, Ene. 1993, E. Rojas, L­N­286000, 567500”, “CRI001, 402811”, “Slide No. 473”, “CRI001, 402749”; 1 ɗ, “ Mar. 1992 ”, “CRI000, 363839”; 1 ɗ, “ 26 Jun. A 16 Jul. 1992 ”, “CRI000, 745120”, “Slide No. 474”; 1 ɗ, “ Nov. 1991 ”, “CRI000, 460113”; 1 ɗ, “ 31 Ene. ­ 21 Feb. 1992 ”, “CRI000, 785253”, “Slide No. 424”, “Wing Slide No. 424a”; 1 ɗ, “ Ene. 1994, # 2549”, “CRI001, 856462”, “Slide No. 469”, (9 in INBio, 6 in USNM).

Distribution ( Map 9 ): Glyphidocera aediculae is known from two coastal collecting sites in north­central Costa Rica along the Caribbean Sea.

Etymology: The species epithet aediculae is derived from the Latin “aedicula,” meaning shrine.

Figures

MAP 9. Distribution of Glyphidocera faecis () and G. aediculae (). Outlying circles indicate multiple adjacent localities.