identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
7C281B670745FFFF7793FA88916BF9E6.text	7C281B670745FFFF7793FA88916BF9E6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lepidoceropsyche Saigusa and Sugimoto 2022	<div><p>Lepidoceropsyche Saigusa and Sugimoto, gen. nov.</p><p>Type species: Lepidoceropsyche manoi Saigusa and Sugimoto, sp. nov.</p><p>Diagnosis. Distinguished from all the known psychid genera by the flagellomere scales being 2–3 times longer than flagellomeres. Female. Medium-sized entirely blackish psychid with well-developed wings lacking median fork in discoidal cells: forewing R4+5 simple; antennal flagellomeres bearing long slender scales giving thick fluffy appearance to antennae; ocelli absent, maxillary palpus absent, labial palpus 2-segmented; long corethrogyne surrounding 7th abdominal dorsum and venter; ovipositor long and slender, with very long apophyses posteriores.</p><p>Female. (Figs. 1, 2)</p><p>Vestiture. Head. Vertex and frons covered with more or less appressed scales; a rough bundle of long scales from side of occiput; antennal flagellum bearing dense long slender scales providing thick appearance; labial palpus bearing elongate scales that are neither erect nor brush-like. Thorax: Wings densely covered with broad scales; tegula with elongate scales; mesonotum densely covered with more or less appressed scales; mesoscutellum without an apical erect bundle of long scales; legs covered with appressed scales; hind tibia without dorsal fringe. Abdomen covered with broad scales: corethrogyne whitish and covered with black hair-like scales.</p><p>Integumental morphology. Head: Cranium (Figs. 2A, B, C) blackish brown in colour, spherical, almost as long as high, with vertex more or less swollen; vertical diameter of compound eye slightly more than half of head height; ocellus absent; frons slightly wider than half width of head. Maxilla reduced to an unsegmented minute protuberance, haustellum and maxillary palpus absent. Labial palpus (Fig. 2B) 0.6 × as long as head height, obliquely projecting anterodorsally and consisting of only two slender palpomeres subequal to each other in length; apical palpomere slightly longer than 3 × of its thickness, with truncate apex furnished with sensillae. Antenna (Fig. 1C) about 0.44–0.47 × as long as forewing length including fringe, with thick fluffy appearance with vestiture of long scales; scape spherical, pedicel small; flagellum (Figs. 1D, E) consisting of 31–33 flagellomeres, slender and filiform, bearing dense, long slender scales that are about 2–3 × as long as flagellomere, sockets of scales not arranged in circular rows but scattered on flagellomere; flagellomeres cylindrical on basal 1/3 of flagellum, more or less barrel-shaped on middle part, slenderer on apical part and ending in 3–4 short spherical subsegments; middle flagellomeres 1.8 × as long as thick,</p><p>Thorax: Sclerites blackish brown. Metathoracic furcasternum (Fig. 1G) with a pair of slender apical furcal arms, each of which is united with an equally slender apophyseal rod invaginated from posterior margin of metepimera.</p><p>Wing (Fig. 1F) moderately elongate, both wings with apex roundly produced. Forewing slightly shorter than 3 × width (2.8–2.9); discal cell nearly 2/3 as long as wing (0.68–0.69), R4+5 unbranched and ending in costa slightly proximad to wing apex; accessory cell present, 1/3 as long as discal cell; M in discal cell simple, viz, intercalary cell absent; other veins present and arising independently from discal cell. Hindwing 2.3–2.4 × as long as wide; all veins present and arising independently from discal cell; M stem simple in discal cell; anterior discal cell slightly longer than 1/2 length of wing (0.55–0.56); posterior discal cell longer than anterior discal cell, nearly 2/3 as long as wing (0.64–0.65); anterior and posterior discocellar veins oblique.</p><p>Legs (Fig. 2D) black, distal 3/4 of hind tibia paler; legs moderately thick as a primitive psychid. Epiphysis (Fig.2E) from middle of fore tibia, covered with scales on outer surface, minutely setulose on inner surface, with apex pointed and almost reaching to apex of tibia; mid tibia with rather short distal spurs; hind tibia somewhat thickened and with rather short middle and distal spurs; anterior spurs nearly 1/2–2/3 as long as posterior spurs; relative lengths of podites, epiphysis and spurs as in Table 1</p><p>Abdomen dark brown on sclerites. Seventh abdominal segment with long dense white corethrogyne from both dorsum and venter, and covered outwardly with long black hair-like scales. Female terminalia (Figs. 2F, G, H): Extremely elongate as in Psyche; apophysis posterioris very long, 1/3 as long as combined length of meso- and metathoracic terga, with its apex reaching to basal part of abdomen when ovipositor is normally retracted with its apex at the level of apices of dark hair scales covering corethrogyne; apophysis anterioris 1/2 as long as apophysis posterioris; ventral apophyses 1/3 as long as apophysis posterioris, and united into a single rod at 1/3 its total length from distal ends; lamella antevaginalis quadrate, slightly longer than wide, weakly sclerotized and minutely pilose, with posterior margin evenly curved inwards; lamella postvaginalis undeveloped; bursa copulatrix oval, without signum, ductus bursas thick and twisted, ductus seminalis from base of bursa; papilla analis small with longish setulae.</p><p>Distribution. Japan.</p><p>Remarks. As stated in the introduction, the new genus Lepidoceropsyche undoubtedly belongs to the family Psychidae based on the two important characters, the union of metathoracic furcal arms with epimeral apophyses and the well-developed corethrogyne (Robinson, 1988; Davis &amp; Robinson, 1999). However, as the male and immature stages of this species are unknown, it is difficult to discuss its phylogenetic position in the family. As far as we know, no psychid species with long-scaled antennal flagellum has been described. Dr. T. Sobczyk suggested us that there was a female specimen of an unnamed psychid species having long-scaled antennae from South Africa in the collection of the Natural History Museum (Fig. 1B).</p><p>The genus is apparently a descendant of one of primitive lineages of the Psychidae judging from the fully winged female having rather plesiomorphic wing venation and legs (Kozhantshikov, 1956; Saigusa, 1962; Sobczyk, 2011). On the other hand, the new genus is curiously advanced in the reduced mouthparts lacking segmented maxillary palpi and galea (haustellum), and with only 2-segemented labial palpi, in addition to the peculiarly long-scaled antennal flagellum.</p><p>This genus is an unexpected addition to the Japanese fauna of the Psychidae (Saigusa &amp; Sugimoto, 2013) .</p><p>Etymology. The generic name, Lepidoceropsyche means lepis (=scale)+ cera (=antenna) + Psyche, based on the long-scaled female antennal flagellum.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7C281B670745FFFF7793FA88916BF9E6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Saigusa, Toyohei;Sugimoto, Mika	Saigusa, Toyohei, Sugimoto, Mika (2022): A new primitive genus of the family Psychidae having long-scaled female antennae from the Ryukyus, Japan (Lepidoptera, Tineoidea). Zootaxa 5154 (2): 239-245, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.2.8
7C281B670746FFF87793FEB59115F8CA.text	7C281B670746FFF87793FEB59115F8CA.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Lepidoceropsyche manoi Saigusa and Sugimoto 2022	<div><p>Lepidoceropsyche manoi Saigusa and Sugimoto, sp. nov.</p><p>(Figs. 1, 2)</p><p>Diagnosis. There is only one species of Lepidoceropsyche, gen. nov.; the previously mentioned genus-level diagnostic characters distinguish this species from other Psychidae . Rather small-sized, entirely blackish species, with fluffy antennae clothed with long slender scales on flagellum, 2-sgemented labial palpi and moderately narrow wings.</p><p>Female. (Fig. 1A)</p><p>Length. Forewing 8.0– 9.2mm (excluding fringe), 8.4–9.5 mm (including fringe). Wing expanse 18–19 mm. Body 6.3–7.0 mm (from head to apex of corethrogyne).</p><p>Coloration and vestiture. Head, thoracic nota and abdomen covered with blackish brown scales, thoracic pleura with dark brown to brown scales. Head clothed with more or less appressed short scales on face, elongate more or less appressed scales on vertex; occiput with short scales, of which dorsolateral ones covering lateral parts of vertex. Cranium posterior to antennal sockets and narrow areas along posterior margin of compound eyes naked and polished. Labial palpus clothed with elongate scales.Antenna: Scape and pedicel with short scales; flagellomere densely bearing long narrow black scales, that are 2–3 × as long as flagellomere, 1/10 as wide as long and with 2–3 short teeth apically. Prothorax with pair of rough bundles of long, erect scales posterior to head. Mesonotum covered with appressed elongate scales; tegula with long scales projecting its posterior margin; no apical bundle of long scales on mesoscutellum. Legs including epiphysis and spurs densely covered with scales, that are broad on femora and tibiae, more slender on tarsi and spurs; hind tibia dorsally without long fringe hairs.</p><p>Forewing dorsal surface evenly deep blackish brown, without markings, covered with broad scales; upper scales 2.5 × as long as wide, with truncate distal margin projecting to 4–5 sharp teeth; lower scales smaller than upper ones, nearly 1/2 as long as upper scales, shorter than twice width and with blunt teeth. Fringe irregular in length, fine on basal 1/2, then gradually widening to pointed apex bearing 5–7 sharp teeth. Hindwing dorsal surface blackish brown with anterior marginal area much paler; upper scales twice as long as wide, with truncate distal margin projecting to 3 teeth, middle tooth larger, lateral ones very weak; lower scales smaller than upper ones. Fringe similar that of forewing, with 3–4 apical teeth.</p><p>Integumentarl morphology. Structure of integumental sclerites is as stated in the description of the genus Lepidoceropsyche .</p><p>Type material. Holotype. ♀, labelled: Japan. Ryûkyû / Airagawa-rindô / Iriomote-zima / 15.iii.2002 (light)/ K. Sugisima leg. ; HOLOTYPE / Lepidoceropsyche manoi /Saigusa &amp; Sugmoto, 2022. (Entomological Laboratory, Kyushu University). Paratypes. Iriomote-jima: 3 ♀, JAPAN: Okinawa / Iriomote Is. / Hunaura / 21-Mar-1995 / T. Mano leg. ; PARATYPE / Lepidoceropsyche manoi /Saigusa &amp; Sugmoto, 2022. (Saigusa collection); 1 ♀, [OKINAWA]/ Funaura / Iriomote-jima / 11 April, 2010 LT/ T. Saigusa &amp; M. Sugimoto col. ; PARATYPE / Lepidoceropsyche manoi / Saigusa &amp; Sugmoto, 2022. (Saigusa collection) D Ishigaki-jima: 2 ♀, JAPAN: Okinawa / Isigaki Is. / Takeda / 28-Mar- 1993 / T. Mano ; PARATYPE / Lepidoceropsyche manoi /Saigusa &amp; Sugmoto, 2022. leg. (Saigusa collection); 2 ♀, 2016.4.9 / Okinawa Pref., Ishigaki-shi / Ooura-damu / T. Komatsu col. ; PARATYPE / Lepidoceropsyche manoi /Saigusa &amp; Sugmoto, 2022. (Entomological Laboratory, Kyushu University); 2 ♀, [JPN] <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=124.25054&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=24.488436" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 124.25054/lat 24.488436)">Mt. Nosoko</a>, Ishigaki-/Is., Okinawa Pref./ 25.III.2020 LT/ Shunsuke TOMURA leg. / N24,488435, E124,250542 ; PARATYPE / Lepidoceropsyche manoi / Saigusa &amp; Sugmoto, 2022. (Entomological Laboratory, Kyushu University) G 1 ♀, [JNP] Takeda-rindô / Ishigaki-Is., Okinawa Pref. / 30.III.2020 / Shunsuke TOMURA leg. / N 24,403 622 E 124,183938 ; PARATYPE / Lepidoceropsyche manoi /Saigusa &amp; Sugmoto, 2022. (Entomological Laboratory, Kyushu University).</p><p>Type locality. Airagawa, Komi, Taketomi-cho, Iriomote-jima (24̊ 20 ìN, 123̊ 54 ìE), Ryukyus, Japan .</p><p>Distribution. Iriomote-jima and Ishigaki-jima, Ryukyus, Japan.</p><p>Etymology. Specific epithet is dedicated to Mr. Takayuki Mano, the first collector of this species, who is the collector of the paratypes of the rare psychid, Kearfottia japonic a Saigusa &amp; Sugimoto, 2021.</p><p>Remarks. The localities of the type-series of this species are in dense subtropical forests. The type specimens were collected in middle of March to early April. Most of the specimens were attracted to light traps, and their abdomens are shriveled in different degrees by specimens, and hairs of the corethrogyne were considerably consumed. Only a few egg chorions were retained in the abdomen when one of them was dissected. Therefore, the females collected at light traps seem to be attracted to lights after oviposition. On the other hand, one paratype female from Takeda-rindô, Ishigaki-jima that was collected by a sweeping net in daytime (according to Mr. Tomura) has the swollen abdomen with complete, not consumed, corethrogyne. Based on the conditions of the females it is assumed that they emerged at daytime, then copulated, laid eggs and became light in weight until evening, and flew to the light traps. Chorions from the dissected abdomen were oval, very thin and 0.4 mm long, 0.24 mm wide. Immature stages of this species are unknown. We did not find any possible larval or pupal cases referable to this species in the localities. We assume that the larvae of this species probably live on the forest floor and feed on fungi, mold and lichen on rotten logs or base of trees.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7C281B670746FFF87793FEB59115F8CA	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Saigusa, Toyohei;Sugimoto, Mika	Saigusa, Toyohei, Sugimoto, Mika (2022): A new primitive genus of the family Psychidae having long-scaled female antennae from the Ryukyus, Japan (Lepidoptera, Tineoidea). Zootaxa 5154 (2): 239-245, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.2.8
