Levu apicalis Zelazny, 2011

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 42

Levu apicalis Zelazny , sp. nov.

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Description. Forewings 2.5 times longer than wide, length: male about 3.8 mm, female about 4.4 mm. Colour stramineous; margins of facial carinae orange; fore and middle tibiae very faintly orange-brown. Forewings white; a dark mark around first subcostal sector; faintly infuscated distad of clavus tip and around anterior apical crossveins; veins white to stramineous, but last subcostal sector and adjoining part of C bright red. Rostrum surpassing hind coxae; subantennal processes connected to margins of facial carinae. Forewings with Sc+R fork just distad of basal third of wing; Ms1 branched just distad of apex of basal median cell, base of Ms1a angulated and connected to M by a cross-vein; apical parts of Cu1 and Ms1b merged; Ms3 short, not connected by a cross-vein to Ms2 or M; a cross-vein between Ms2 and M. Male genital styles oval, proximal dorsal process short, distal dorsal process elongated, both well separated. Aedeagus stem with a pair of short projections just before apical part; apical portion with a short, dorsal, pointed process, and a central, dorsal, longitudinal impression.

Etymology. The species name is a Latin adjective ( apicalis , -is, -e = apical).

Type material. Holotype ♂ (forewing 3.8 mm), LAOS; labels: 1) LAOS:/ Sayaboury Prov. / Sayaboury / 13.IV.1966 2) Native / Collector / BISHOP ( BPBM) . Paratypes. LAOS: Vientiane Prov., Ban Van Eue, 15.XII.1965, 1 ♂ (fw. 3.8) 1 ♀ (fw. 4.4), Native Collector (all BPBM) .

Distribution. Laos.

Diagnosis. Levu apicalis shows a number of characters not found in other species of Levu : the very elongated forewings, the cross-vein between the bases of Ms1a and M, the merged apices of Ms1b and Cu1, the short third sector of M, and the single pointed process on the male aedeagus.