Comprehensive Description
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Asymphorodes leptotes
Alar expanse 10–12 mm.
Labial palpus light buff; third segment suffused grayish anteriorly. Antenna scape pale orange yellow with fuscous line posteriorly; flagellum grayish fuscous with faint paler annulations. Head pale orange yellow. Thorax pale orange yellow; tegula brown; male with thornlike processes from metascutum. Forewing ground color pale orange yellow; from base, along fold, a blackish fuscous line extends almost to end of cell; beyond the outer end of this line a blackish fuscous spot; base of costa blackish fuscous; slightly beyond middle of costa a blackish fuscous dash followed by a buff dash; underside of forewing blackish fuscous; cilia on outer part of dorsum and tornus grayish, remainder along termen pale orange yellow. Hindwing grayish fuscous; cilia a shade lighter. Foreleg buff; blackish fuscous on outer side; midleg similar but not strongly marked fuscous; hindleg buff marked on tibia and tarsal segments with fuscous. Abdomen blackish fuscous dorsally; ventrally buff; posterior segments modified (Figure 193 c–e).
Male genitalia slides USNM 24806, 24807. Harpe broad basally; neck very short and slender; cucullus expanded. Branchia slender, sharply pointed, abruptly curved just before middle. Tegumen slightly longer than broad. Aedeagus long, slender, nearly straight; manica with a moderately high keel dorsally.
Female genitalia slides USNM 24800, 24803. Ostium small, round, emerging from a short, sclerotized tube, at base of excavation in posterior margin of 7th sternum. Inception of ductus seminalis from posterior end of bursa copulatrix. Ductus bursae short, slender, sclerotized posteriorly. Bursa copulatrix membranous, finely spiculate in anterior half.
HOLOTYPE.—USNM 100818.
TYPE-LOCALITY.—Nuku Hiva, Tapuaooa, 2500 ft (762 m).
DISTRIBUTION.—Nuku Hiva.
FOOD PLANT.—Unknown.
Described from the holotype (30 Jan 1968), 3 and 6 paratypes with identical data; and 4, 1 paratypes from Nuku Hiva, Toovii, Ooumu, 900 m, 16–19 Jul 1977 (Montgomery).
The markings on some of the specimens are suffused, or not as well developed as shown in illustrations of the wings (Figure 306c,d).
This, and bipunctatus, new species, might be confused as indicated under bipunctatus. The two occur together but can most readily be distinguished by the terminal abdominal segments of the males.
- bibliographic citation
- Clarke, J. F. Gates. 1986. "Pyralidae and Microlepidoptera of the Marquesas Archipelago." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-485. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.416
Asymphorodes leptotes: Brief Summary
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Asymphorodes leptotes is a moth of the family Agonoxenidae. It was described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1986. It is found in French Polynesia.
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