Postplatyptilia storozhenkoi Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin, 2025

Kovtunovich, Vasily & Ustjuzhanin, Petr, 2025, Three new species of the plume moths (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) from Colombia Part 2, Zootaxa 5715 (1), pp. 218-224 : 218-220

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5715.1.19
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CAE20A97-0452-406F-904B-C528CB9DF5CA
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17887896
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5E2387A8-FF90-6D16-FF22-F818FBCAFE02
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Postplatyptilia storozhenkoi Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Postplatyptilia storozhenkoi Kovtunovich & Ustjuzhanin View in CoL , sp. nov.

( Figs 1, 2 View FIGURES 1–6 , 7 View FIGURES 7–10 )

Type material. Holotype, male, [ ZISP, gen. slide No. 2021], COLOMBIA, Tolima Cerro Bravo, La Libia [ 05°06′21”N, 75°16′22”W], h 3040 m, 15–18. XII. 2015, ( V. Sinyaev). GoogleMaps

Description. External characters. Head, thorax and tegulae with dark gray scales. Labial palpi wide, rather long, twice as long as longitudinal eye diameter. Third segment protruding slightly forward. Antennae thin, dark gray. Length of fore wings 16 mm. Fore wings dark gray. Faint black spot in front of cleft. Barely noticeable light band in distal part of both lobes. Fringe inside cleft light gray. Two black areas of scales on light gray fringe along posterior margin of forewing, behind its middle part. Hind wings unicolorous, light gray. Fringe on third lobe of hind wings light, with distinct portion of black scales distally. Individual black scales scattered along third lobe fringe. Hind legs light brown with areas of dark scales at base of spurs.

Male genitalia. Valvae narrow, symmetric, cucullus narrowed, slightly curved. Sacculus two-lobed, both parts of approximately similar length, basal part slightly wider than distal part. Uncus slightly widened basally and narrowed apically. Tegumen two-lobed. Anellus arms symmetric, long, wide basally. Saccus with deep fork-shaped saccular process. Aedeagus arched, basal process small, tuberculate.

Female unknown.

Diagnosis. In the male genitalia, the new species is similar to Postplatyptilia alexisi Gielis, 1991 in the shape of aedeagus, it resembles Postplatyptilia fuscicornis ( Zeller, 1877) , but it differs from these two species in the shape of saccus and shorter uncus.

Distribution. Colombia.

Flight period. December.

Etymology. The new species is named in honor of orthopterist Sergei Yurievich Storozhenko (Vladivostok, Russia), founder and editor of entomological journal in the Far East of Russia.