Pseudopostega paraplicatella Davis & Stonis 2007

Pseudopostega paraplicatella

ADULT. Figure 167. Length of forewing 3.0 mm. Small, mostly white moth with white forewings marked with 3 dark brown, subapical costal strigulae and a pale brown spot on dorsum. Male gnathos with apex of caudal lobe slender, elongate, and simple; basal fold slender, broadly arched (Figure 313). Female unknown.

Head: Vestiture white. Scape white; flagellum light ochre-brown, ~55–57-segmented. Palpi cream to white; labial palpus with dark brown suffusion laterally.

Thorax: White; tegula white. Forewing white with 3 oblique, long, dark brown, subapical costal strigulae; strigula 1 the shortest, 2/3 the length of 2; strigula 2 fading to elongate, blackish brown apical spot; strigula 3 faint, slightly extending distally around apical spot to short, faint, brown tornal strigula; terminal cilia white; venter of forewing brown except for basal, subhumeral cream area. Hindwing and cilia light ochreous brown dorsally and pale brown ventrally (the same color as venter of forewing) except for cream suffusion at base. Legs mostly cream to white; foreleg with dorsal surfaces suffused with dark brown; tarsomeres of all legs with dark brown or fuscous suffusion dorsally over apical segments.

Abdomen: Color not recorded.

Male Genitalia: Figure 313. Socii a pair of relatively long, slender, distally rounded, setose lobes, widely separated by a distance ~1.2× length of cucullar lobe. Vinculum V-shaped, anterior margin extended into slender, subacute process. Base of gnathos broadly trapezoid, abruptly narrowing posteriorly to a moderately long, very slender, caudal lobe; apex of lobe simple, rounded, distinctly curved dorsally; basal fold slender, broadly arched. Valva with an oval, elongate cucullar lobe ~0.3× length of genital capsule; bearing a pectinifer consisting of about 36 blunt spines; pedicel thickened, width ~1/3 length of cucullar lobe; valva moderately short, length along sacculus ~0.6× length of genital capsule; saccular lobe small and slender, tapering to an irregularly rounded, setose apex; basal process of valva tapering to acute apex, exceeding length of short costal process. Juxta absent.

FEMALE, LARVA AND PUPA. Unknown.

HOLOTYPE. ♂; ECUADOR: NAPO: SE of Coca, near Rio Tiputini, Yasuni Research Station, 230 m 76°36'W, 00°38'S, Amazon rainforest, 15–25 Jan 2000, R. Puplesis, slide AD 0444 (VPU).

HOST. Unknown.

FLIGHT PERIOD. January (unique record).

DISTRIBUTION. (Map 7) Known only from the type locality in Amazonian rainforest of eastern Ecuador.

ETYMOLOGY. The species name is derived from Latin, para (beside, near), and the species name plicatella, in reference to the close morphological similarities of these two species.

DISCUSSION. Males of P. paraplicatella are easily distinguished from those of the closely related P. plicatella by the more acute anterior end of the vinculum, broader basal fold of the gnathos, and shorter saccular lobe.

Pseudopostega paraplicatella is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Donald R. Davis and Jonas R. Stonis, 2007. It is known from Amazonian rainforest of eastern Ecuador.

The length of the forewings is about 3 mm. Adults have been recorded in January.

Pseudopostega paraplicatella là một loài bướm đêm thuộc họ Opostegidae. Nó được miêu tả bởi Donald R. Davis và Jonas R. Stonis, 2007. Nó được tìm thấy ở Amazonian rainforest of miền đông Ecuador.

Chiều dài cánh trước khoảng 3 mm. Con trưởng thành bay vào tháng 1.