Conopomorpha habrodes Meyrick, 1907

Conopomorpha habrodes Meyrick, 1907 View in CoL

( Fig.14)

“ C.[onopomorpha] habrodes , n. sp. ”—Meyrick, E., 1907. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 47–150. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6383136

Conopomorpha habrodes View in CoL — Nielsen & Kumata 1996: 48; De Prins & De Prins 2005: 158.

Acrocercops habrodes — Turner 1940: 62.

Type locality: [ Australia], West[ern] Australia, Geraldton.

Type specimens: 5 syntypes (♂ and ♀) (2 syntypes BMNH(E) 1405834 and BMNH(E) 1406171, both syntypes with abdomens, were found in the collection of NHMUK (London) in June 2023) .

Specimens examined: ( Fig. 14) Syntype 1: [1] Geraldton/W. Australia / 3 November 1886; [2] Meyrick Coll. B. M. 1938-290; [3] Syntype; [4] Acrocercops / habrodes /5/3 Meyr./E. Meyrick det./in Meyrick Coll; [5] BMNH(E) 1405834. Syntype 2: [1] Geraldton/W. Australia / 13 November 1886; [2] Meyrick Coll. B. M. 1938-290; [3] Syntype; [4] Acrocercops / habrodes /5/4 Meyr./E. Meyrick det./in Meyrick Coll.; [5] BMNH(E) 1406171, in NHMUK (London).

Lectotype designation: Hereby, we designate as the lectotype of the species Conopomorpha habrodes Meyrick, 1907 the male specimen ( Fig. 14) with abdomen, belonging to the syntype series and carrying the following labels: [1] ‘Geraldton/W. Australia / 13 November 1886 ’ (handwritten on dark beige paper), [2]’Meyrick Coll./B. M. 1938- 290’ (printed on white paper), [3] ‘Syntype’ (printed on white paper with a blue ring on the outer margin’ [4] ‘ Acrocercops / habrodes /5/4 Meyr./E. Meyrick det./in Meyrick Coll.’ (three upper lines handwritten with black Indian ink, two lower lines printed on white paper), [5] ‘BMNH(E) 1406171’, in NHMUK (London).

Paralectotype: 1 specimen: Paralectotype 1(♂), with abdomen: belonging to the syntype series and carrying the following labels: [1] ‘Geraldton/W. Australia / 3 November 1886 ’ (handwritten on dark beige paper), [2]’Meyrick Coll./B. M. 1938-290’ (printed on white paper), [3] ‘Syntype’ (printed on white paper with a blue ring on the outer margin’ [4] ‘ Acrocercops / habrodes /5/3 Meyr./E. Meyrick det./in Meyrick Coll.’ (three upper lines handwritten with black Indian ink, two lower lines printed on white paper), [5] ‘BMNH(E) 1405834’, in NHMUK (London).

Morphological diagnostic characterisation: length of forewing ca. 3.4 mm. Wing span ca. 6.3–7.1 mm ( Fig. 14).

Head: covered with smooth snowy white, long, pressed piliform scales, occiput with lateral bunches of very short snowy piliform scales. Labial palpus, long, straight, slender, white with brown base of terminal palpomere.Antenna very long, about 1/4 longer than the length of forewing, thin, light beige, unicoloured, without annulation; pedicel short, slightly bigger than the following flagellomere, scape thicker than pedicel and the rest of the flagellomeres, white with light beige shading.

Thorax: light beige; tegula concolourous with thorax. Forewing long narrow, equally wide along its entire length, with gently rounded apex, ground colour light beige with yellow shading, with five costal and three dorsal strigulae which are hardly distinguishable from the background colour, both costal and dorsal strigulae are edged with dark brown scales that do not form a linear edging; in apical part of forewing one short white strigula is on the apex and a broader white stripe along termen; apical spot absent, apical line consists of just few dark brown scales on tornus; in general forewing pattern slightly reminds that of Lithocolletinae species; fringe very long, fringe of different length, white with light yellow patches, the longest fringe is at the mid of dorsum of forewing. Hindwing very narrow, just slightly shorter than the forewing, sharply narrowing towards apex, light beige; fringe long, extremely long on dorsum reaching the abdominal segment VI and even VII, white with yellowish basal 2/3. Legs white with a brown patch on basal hind tarsomere.

Abdomen: Tergites light ochreous, except on the last two anterior segments that are white with yellowish shading. The lateral sides of abdominal segments are whitish.

Male genitalia: No data.

Female genitalia: No data.

BOLD data: No data.

GenBank data: No data.

Mitogenomic data: No data.

Bionomics in Australia: No data.

Distribution: Australia: Western Australia ( Meyrick 1907: 57).