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Parkiana rabenoroi Park & Koo & Minet 2020, comb. nov.

  • 1. Bioresource and Environmental Center, Incheon National University, Incheon, 22012 Korea;
  • 2. Department of Plant Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, 28644 Korea.
  • 3. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (ISYEB, UMR 7205), Entomologie (C. P. 50), 45, rue Buffon, F- 75005 Paris, France.

Description

Parkiana rabenoroi (Viette, 1988), comb. nov.

(Figs. 3 A–F)

Lecithocera rabenoroi Viette, 1988: 102. TL: Amber Mountain, Les Roussettes.

Type. 1♀ (holotype), North Madagascar, Amber Mountain (Montagne d’Ambre), Les Roussettes, alt. 1,000 m, 8 xii 1958, P. Viette leg.; P.E.L. Viette det. 1988, Lecithocera rabenoroi n. sp., Holotype, ♀; genitalia: prep. P. Viette no. 5751.

Adults (Figs. 3A, B). Wingspan, 12 mm. The species is superficially characterized by the forewing with distinct, yellowish-white narrow antemedian band and the antenna with distinct dark annulets. The hind wing with M 3 and CuA 1 coincident. Abdominal segments have spinose zones with sparse spines on dorsal surface (Fig. 3F).

Female genitalia (Figs. 3 C–E): See also the line drawing given by Viette (1988, Fig. 7). Abdominal sternite VIII deeply emarginated into U-shape medially. Apophyses anteriores about 2/5 length of apophyses posteriores. Antrum bowl-shaped. Ductus bursae as long as corpus bursae. Corpus bursae ovate, heavily wrinkled; signa consist of more than 10 strong conic spines.

Remarks. The antenna and the forewing colour pattern of the species are well in accordance with those of Parkiana, but the female genitalia are very characteristic with more than 10 strong conic spines in the corpus bursae.

Distribution. Madagascar (North) (Viette, 1988).

Notes

Published as part of Park, Kyu-Tek, Koo, Jun-Mo & Minet, Joël, 2020, Review of the Malagasy lecithocerid species described by Pierre Viette and deposited in MNHN (Paris), with new generic combinations and descriptions of a new subfamily and genus of Momphidae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea), pp. 151-190 in Zootaxa 4845 (2) on pages 158-159, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4845.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4406460

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
1958-12-08
Family
Lecithoceridae
Genus
Parkiana
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Lepidoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Park & Koo & Minet
Species
rabenoroi
Taxonomic status
comb. nov.
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Verbatim event date
1958-12-08
Taxonomic concept label
Parkiana rabenoroi (Viette, 1988) sec. Park, Koo & Minet, 2020

References

  • Viette, P. E. L. (1988) Nouveaux Microlepidopteres de Madagascar (Xyloryctidae, Stenomidae, Lecithoceridae, Gelechiidae) [Lep.]. Bulletin de la Societe entomologique de France, 93 (3 - 4), 99 - 109. https: // doi. org / 10.3406 / linly. 1986.10753