Architesma dolgomoides, Volynkin, 2025

Volynkin, Anton V., 2025, Contribution to the knowledge of the Afrotropical Archithosia Birket-Smith generic complex with the description of a new genus, nineteen new species and a new subspecies, and introduction of new combinations (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), Ecologica Montenegrina 82, pp. 1-63 : 29

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.82.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:35522E72-ABB8-47C1-AB07-3B7BF7391755
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16961977
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1D5087DA-FFFC-2152-FF1E-FF2B45EAFA75
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Architesma dolgomoides
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Architesma dolgomoides View in CoL sp. n.

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Paratypes (27 males, 2 females, all in ANHRT). REPUBLIC OF CONGO: 10 males, 2 females , same data as in holotype, actinic and LepiLED light traps, gen. slide Nos.: AV8976 ♂ , AV8979 ♀; 7 males, 365m, NNNP, Mondika camp, 02°21'50.63''N 16°16'25.82''E, 07–14.ii.2023, MV light trap, Bakala, N., M., Dérozier, V., Kirk-Spriggs, A., László, G. leg., gen. slide No.: AV9049 ♂ GoogleMaps ; 1 male, 349m, Likouala Prov. , NNNP, Makao forest (Secondary forest), 02°36'42.5''N 17°09'23.8''E, 24– 29.ix.2022, LepiLED L. T., Dérozier, V., Fouka, B., Kirk-Spriggs, A., Takano, H. leg., gen. slide No.: AV9069 ♂ GoogleMaps ; 2 males, 372m, Sangha Prov. , NNNP, Mbeli camp ( Gilbertiodendron forest), 02°14'23.8''N, 16°23'52.1''E, 1–10.x.2022, LepiLED and MV light traps, Dérozier, V., Fouka, B., Kirk-Spriggs, A., Takano, H. leg.; 5 males GoogleMaps , same locality as previous, 14–20.ii.2023, MV and actinic light traps, Bakala, N., M., Dérozier , V., Kirk-Spriggs, A., László, G. leg.; 2 males, 377m GoogleMaps , NNNP, Makao camp (Secondary forest), 02°35'42.2''N 17°10'08.3''E, 15–21.v.2023, MV light trap, Dérozier, V., Kirk-Spriggs, A., László, G., Mvouende, S. leg., gen. slide Nos.: AV9096 ♂ GoogleMaps , AV9097 ♂.

Diagnosis. The forewing length is 12.5–13.0 mm in males and 14.0–15.0 mm in females. Architesma dolgomoides sp. n. is externally reminiscent of the sympatric A. ndoki sp. n. but distinguished by the ochreous forewing ground colour with a more distinct transverse line, and the paler and more yellowish hindwing. The male genitalia of the two species are similar but unlike A. ndoki sp. n., A. dolgomoides sp. n. has a proximally narrower and medially straighter uncus, a somewhat narrower and apically broader valva, a longer editum bearing a less prominent short ampulla situated more distally, and a narrower sacculus with thicker basal, and narrower and shorter distal, processes. The phalluses of the two species display no remarkable differences. In the vesica, the distal diverticulum of A. dolgomoides sp. n. is markedly narrower than in A. ndoki sp. n. The female genitalia of A. dolgomoides sp. n. differ from A. ndoki sp. n. in the somewhat broader postvaginal region with an anteriorly broader, rectangular medio-posterior setose region (it is trapezoidal in A. ndoki sp. n.), and the considerably larger and more heavily sclerotised antevaginal plate with a less convex posterior margin.

Distribution. The new species is currently known from north-eastern Republic of Congo.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the external similarity of the new species to certain members of the Asiatic Lithosiina genus Dolgoma Moore, 1878 . The name is an adjective in apposition to the genus name.