Four New Species of Gelechiid Moths of the Genus Photodotis Meyrick, 1911 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from Borneo
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New Species of Gelechiid Moths of the Genus Photodotis Meyrick, 1911 (Lepidoptera, Gelechiidae) from Borneo M. M. Omelkoa,* and N. V. Omelkoa a
Federal Scientific Center of East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, 690022 Russia *e-mail: [email protected] Received January 25, 2019; revised April 1, 2019; accepted May 25, 2019
Abstract—Four new Gelechiidae species of the genus Photodotis Meyrick, 1911 are described from the Malaysian part of Borneo: Ph. crockeri sp. n., Ph. decolorata sp. n., Ph. aliena sp. n., and Ph. imperfecta sp. n. The name of the genus Palintropa Meyrick, 1913 is considered a junior synonym of that of the genus Photodotis Meyrick, syn. n. A new combination is also established: Photodotis hippica (Meyrick, 1913), comb. n. ex Palintropa. Keywords: Gelechiidae, Photodotis, new species, new synonym, new combination Malaysia, Borneo DOI: 10.1134/S0013873820050115
In the present study we continue describing the gelechiid moths of the genus Photodotis Meyrick, 1911 of the Indo-Malayan Region. Earlier we described three new species from Central Laos (M. Omelko and N. Omelko 2018). Four more species are described based on the collections from Borneo. The name of the genus Palintropa Meyrick, 1913 is established to be a junior synonym of that of the genus Photodotis Meyrick. The type species of the genus Palintropa, P. hippica Meyrick, 1913 described from Sri Lanka (Meyrick, 1913), demonstrates the same generic characters as Photodotis prochalina Meyrick, 1911 (Meyrick, 1911; Janse, 1958, 1963), the type species of the genus Photodotis Meyrick. In the male genitalia, these are a peculiar shape of the uncus with an arcuately curved neck and a rounded distal lobe, the transverse position of the hook-shaped gnathos, and asymmetrical valvae with the basal processes transformed into additional branches and with small lobiform cuculli and large sacculi. In the structure of the male genitalia, Palintropa hippica is closely related to Photodotis daedalea M. Omelko et N. Omelko, 2018 from Laos (M. Omelko and N. Omelko, 2018).
The material was collected in 2018 from the Malaysian part of Borneo (Sabah state) in the Crocker Range National Park within the territory of the resort hotel Manis Manis Roftop of Borneo Resort situated at a height of 950 m a.s.l. The moths were caught at light of mercury gas-discharge lamps on the forest areas adjacent to the hotel. The holotypes and paratypes of the new species are deposited in the scientific collection of V.L. Komarov Gornotayozhnaya Station, a department of the Federal Science Center of Biodiversity of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. PHOTODOTIS Meyrick, 1911 Photodotis Meyrick, 1911, Ann. Transv. Mus., 2 : 229. Type-species: Photodotis prochalina Meyrick, 1911, ibidem, by monotypy. Palintropa Meyrick, 1913, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 22 : 160 (type-species: Palintropa hippica Meyrick, 1913, ibidem, by original designation), syn. n. 706
FOUR NEW SPECIES OF GELECHIID MOTHS OF THE GE
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