Hoploscopa persimilis (Rotschild, 1915) Figs 26, 65

Material examined.

Diagnosis

. Hoploscopa persimilis displays three nearly triangular yellow spots filled with reddish brown on the costa of the forewing. In male genitalia, uncus is long, slender, with duck-shaped apex, gnathos is projected into a small, triangular pointed tip, and valva dorsal margin is conspicuously convex. Female genitalia not known.

Similar species.

Hoploscopa subvariegata (q.v.).

Description.

Head. Not examined.

Thorax (Fig. 26). Collar pale yellow. Forewing length: 9 mm; forewing ground colour brown; basal patch elongated, reddish brown, basally crossed by transverse pale yellow streak; costal field reddish brown; median discoidal stigma trapezoid, pale yellow, with basal and distal edges reddish brown; postmedian patch triangular, pale yellow and reddish brown, distally with costal pale yellow blotch; subterminal field tawny; fringes brown with pale yellow spots. Hindwing pale yellow. Legs missing or badly preserved.

Male genitalia (N = 1) (Fig. 65). Uncus long, slender, slightly narrowed on apical 1/4, apex duck beak-shaped. Gnathos projection triangular. Valva ventral margin nearly straight, dorsal margin conspicuously convex, apex roughly rounded. Juxta not clearly visible on the slide. Saccus broad, triangular, pointing dorsad. Phallus apically with sclerotised spine.

Female genitalia. Not known.

Distribution.

Described from the Oetakwa River on New Guinea (Indonesia: Papua), at an altitude of 1,000 m.

Remarks.

Nuss (1998) transferred this species from Eudorina to Hoploscopa and designated the lectotype. The worn-out specimens hampered accurate description.