Tipulamima hesperia Bartsch & Sáfián 2022, sp. nov.

Tipulamima hesperia sp. nov.

(Figs 18–20, 31)

Holotype ♂ (Figs 18–19, 31): “ Guinea, 700m, / Nimba Mts., SFMG concession / area (Société des Mines de / Fer de Guinée) Cité 1, / 7°42'02.83"N, 8°23'58.60''W, / 17-25.May.2017, General coll. / Sáfián, Sz., leg. / ANHRT: 2017.36”; “ANHRTUK 00029057” (Genitalia examined. SAFI00248) (ANHRT).

Paratypes. 1♂, same data as holotype (ANHRTUK 00029057) (ANHRT); 1♂ (Fig. 20), “ Ghana, / Kumasi u.s.r., / Buroburo, / 9.Nov.1975, / interior ~13h, / conf. A.B.Starn ” (RMCA).

Etymology. From hesperios hesperios (ancient greek = west, western). The name of this species refers to its occurrence in the western part of the distrubution area of Tipulamima.

Description. Alar expanse 26–28 mm, forewing 11.5–12.0 mm, antenna 9 mm and body length 15–16 mm. Head: labial palpus orange-yellow, dorsally with second palpomere in distal half and third entirely mixed with dark brown scales; frons grey with steel blue gloss, laterally white; vertex glossy black with some orange scales near base of antenna and narrow orange spot between antenna and ocellus; pericephalic scales orange; antenna black with strong steel blue gloss, scape ventrally orange. Thorax: dorsally glossy black, with red stripe dorsally instead of dorso-medially and some red scales dorso-laterally on mesothorax and laterally below wing bases; dorso-lateral scale tufts of metathorax greyish-brown; tegula black with orange patch cranially and some orange scales caudally. Legs: fore- and midleg pale orange, each with black patch on tibia proximally; femur of midleg laterally blackishgrey; tibiae of midleg laterally densely mottled with blackish-grey; hindleg with coxa and femur blackish-grey, tibia and tarsus glossy black, tibia and first tarsomere interiorly orange; tibia exteriorly in distal half mottled with orange; spurs of all legs dark grey with pale yellow-orange tip. Wings: transparent areas well developed, large; margins, veins and discal spot black; forewing discal spot and apical area narrow, the latter with short, tooth-like protrusions between veins; hindwing discal spot short and small, triangular, reaching M 2; wing membrane of forewing in middle part, of hindwing in distal half with yellow-brownish tinge. Abdomen: glossy black; tergites 2 and 3, except for dorso-medial part densely, terminal tergites scarcely mottled with dark red scales; sternites 1–3 dark brownish-grey, 2 and 3 distally instead of disto-medially mottled with orange, 4–7 as well as outer side of valvae bright orangeyellow. Female and variation unknown.

Genitalia (Fig. 31). Typically for the genus; crista sacculi of valva rather short, ventrad bent part sharply angled, rather long with length ratio of basal part and ventrad bent part 3:2, both parts densely covered with long setae; exophallus with a strong, sclerotized tooth distally.

Diagnosis. Very similar to T. flammipes, but differs having the metathorax dorsally and the tegulae near forewing base black (each red in T. flammipes); the tibia of mid- and hindleg with black spot proximally (absent in T. flammipes); the anal margin of the forewings orange (pure black in T. flammipes); the forewings with small apical area (absent in T. flammipes); the abdomen with orange-red suffusion on tergites 2 and 3 (according to Hampson 1910: pure black in T. flammipes). In the male genitalia the valva is slightly shorter and broader, the apex somewhat narrower and longer and the crista sacculi shorter and broader, dorso-distally distinctly angled (not so in T. flammipes) and denser covered with setae. Males of Tipulamima haugi and T. pterotarsa differ by their almost completely bluish-black coloration.