Parectopa epimicta ( Turner, 1913 ), 2025

Prins, Jurate De, Hartley, Diana, Sruoga, Virginijus, Nicholls, James, Wallace, Jesse & Zwick, Andreas, 2025, Diversity of Australian Ornixolinae (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) with taxonomic and nomenclatural acts within the related taxa (Acrocercopinae and Gracillariinae) based on the evidence of museomics, bionomics, and mitogenomics, Zootaxa 5616 (1), pp. 1-340 : 213-214

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scientific name	Parectopa epimicta ( Turner, 1913 )
status	comb. nov.

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Parectopa epimicta ( Turner, 1913) View in CoL , comb. n.

( Fig. 441)

“ Acrocercops epimicta , n. sp. ”—Turner, A.J., 1913. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 38: 183. https:// www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6407212

Epicephala epimicta View in CoL — Turner 1940: 68; Nielsen & Kumata 1996: 48; De Prins & De Prins 2005: 179.

Type locality: [ Australia], Q.[ueensland], Brisbane .

Type specimens: Holotype ♀, ANIC Acc. no 31 010793, in ANIC (Canberra).

Specimens examined: Holotype ♀, with abdomen, [labels verbatim]: [1] ‘Brisbane/19-3-10 [19 March 1910]’; [2] ‘ HOLOTYPE / Acrocercops / epimicta Turn. ’; [3]’ Acrocercops TYPE/ epimicta Turn’, [4] ‘ ANIC Database No/31 010793’; [5] ‘ Aust. Nat./Ins. Coll’, in ANIC (Canberra).

Morphological diagnostic characterisation. Wingspan 7.6 mm; length of the forewing 3.75 mm ( Fig. 441).

Head: vertex dirty white-light grey, occiput concolourous with vertex, labial palpus slender, as long as ca. 2× diameter of the eye, with sharp ochreous apex, directed straight forward, antenna broken; scape slightly lighter than the rest of the flagellomeres.

Thorax ( Fig. 441): ochreous, tegula ochreous with dirty white apices. Forewing ground colour ochreous-fuscous, marked by many irregular dirty white spots and stripes; two costal oblique strigulae are clearly distinctive, one at mid of forewing and the other at sub-apical part of forewing, dorsal margin is marked by numerous stripes and spots that can differ in shape between the right and the left forewing; apical spot is very distinctive, more or less oval, dark brown; apical line is complete, fuscous, fringe line is also complete, concolourous with the apical line. Hindwing is light fuscous, slightly shorter than forewing, with a dense long fringe, concolourous with the hindwing, with the longest piliform scales situated at the base of the ventral margin of hindwing. Legs rather slender, mid tibia dark ochreous, with dirty white apical part, apical spurs dirty white with ochreous apex, mid tarsomeres dark ochreous with white apices; tip of midleg light ochreous.

Abdomen: brown with bronze lustre on terga I and II, as well as on the anterior genital segment.

BOLD data: misidentification as Epicephala epimicta : recte Diphtheroptila auris sp. nov. https://www.boldsystems. org/index.php/Public_SearchTerms?query=%22 Epicephala %20epimicta%22[tax].

GenBank data: No data.

Mitogenomic data: No data.

Bionomics: No data.

Distribution: Australia: Queensland ( Turner 1913: 183).