Parectopa ophidias ( Meyrick, 1907 )

Parectopa ophidias ( Meyrick, 1907) View in CoL

( Fig. 446)

“ Macarostola ophidias , n. sp. ”—Meyrick, E., 1907. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 32: 62–63. https:// www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6383141

Parectopa ophidias View in CoL — Turner 1940: 64; Nielsen & Kumata 1996: 48; De Prins & De Prins 2005: 221.

Type locality: [ Australia], South Australia, Quorn .

Type specimen: Holotype ♂, BMNH(E) 1407612, in NHMUK (London).

Specimens examined: Holotype ♂: with abdomen, [1] ‘S.[outh] Australia, Quorn, 22 October 1882; [2] Holotype; [3] ‘ ophidias Meyr [ick]’; [4] ‘ Parectopa ophidias , 1/1 Meyr[ick], E. Meyrick det. in Meyrick Coll.; [5] ‘BMNH(E) 1407612, in NHMUK (London).

Morphological diagnostic characterisation: length of forewing ca. 3.1 mm. Wing span ca. 7.0 mm ( Fig. 446).

Head: covered with smooth white, intermixed with ochreous, long piliform scales, directed anteriorly; occiput dirty white, intermixed with ochreous, with two lateral bunches of very short piliform scales directed radially. Antenna just slightly shorter than the length of the forewing, and dark brown; pedicel is short, dark brown, scape is thicker than the rest of the flagellomeres, dark brown dorsally, whitish ventrally.

Thorax ( Fig. 446): and tegula brown. Forewing narrow, equally wide from base to apex; the ground colour ochreous with white ornaments and dark brown patches of scales: costal margin with prolonged costal stripe that extends beyond the mid of the forewing, followed by a series of shorter sub-apical white stripes; dorsal margin with long narrowing dorsal stripe mirroring the costal stripe, sub-apical area of the dorsal sector with several dark brown spots; apical spot not perceptible, apical and fringe lines are not perceptible; fringe long, creamy white, equally long along the apical part of dorsum. Hindwing narrow, shorter than the forewing, dirty white-creamy beige, fringe long, longer at dorsum, creamy white. Mid legs dark brown, hind legs ochreous.

Abdomen. Tergites dark brown, terga I and II fuscous, anterior tip of genital segment dirty white, sternites whitish. BOLD data: No data.

Mitogenomic data: No data.

GenBank data: No data.

Bionomics: No data.

Distribution: Australia: South Australia ( Meyrick 1907: 63).