Dolichogenidea weaversway Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault, 2025

Dolichogenidea weaversway Fernandez-Triana & Boudreault sp. nov.

Fig. 147 A – F View Figure 147

Type material.

Holotype. Costa Rica • Female, CNC; Guanacaste, Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Sector Santa Rosa, Sendero Natural ; 10.83575, -85.61253; 290 m; 06.ii.1981; D. H. Janzen leg.; Host: Telphusa BioLep 476; Voucher code: CNC 1196849 ; Host voucher code: 81-SRNP-107 GoogleMaps .

Diagnostic description.

F 15 cubic, its length 1.1 × its width; posterior 0.5–0.6 of T 1 and T 2 mostly with strong sculpture, usually longitudinal striae covering entire surface (but T 2 with small polished area centrally); T 1 slightly broadening posteriorly; T 2 comparatively very transverse but with anterior margin arcuate; ovipositor sheath slightly shorter than metatibia length; tegula yellow; mesosternum entire black; pro- and mesocoxae brown, metacoxa dark brown to black; metafemur dark brown; metatibia brown on posterior 0.5; body length: 2.30 mm; fore wing length: 2.63 mm. This species has strong sculpture (usually longitudinal striae) covering posterior 0.5–0.6 of T 1 and most of T 2. However, unlike the majority of species with similarly strong sculpture, T 2 has a central area which is smooth and also T 2 is very transverse with its anterior margin strongly arcuate. Because of that unique shape and sculpture pattern of T 2, as well as its metafemur color, it can be separate from all the species with entirely and strongly sculptured T 2 which is not transverse, as well as all the species with smooth T 2 and / or broad T 2.

Distribution.

Costa Rica.

Biology.

Gelechiidae : Telphusa BioLep 476.

DNA barcoding data.

No data.

Etymology.

Named in recognition of the Weaver’s Way grocery store of Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, for years of food provisioning for Dan Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs during the inventory.