Hoploscopa matheae Léger & Nuss

Taxonomy

Hoploscopa matheae Léger & Nuss, 2020. The female holotype was an unidentified specimen Sabah, Mt. Kinabalu, KML, reported by Mally et al. (2017: pl. 2B). The species was described by Léger & Nuss, 2020: 15-16, figs 1, 47, 88.

Description

A handsome dark brown and cream sp. with a plain dark brown HW. The broad pale FW fascia and the basal and distal discoidal spots partly ringed in cream is distinctive (Léger & Nuss 2020, fig. 1). Specimen BC MTD Lep 03004 of Hoploscopa ADE1420 from the genetic analysis, abdomen removed for DNA extraction and genitalia dissection (Léger & Nuss, 2020, figs 47, 88.)

Life History

Postulated to be a fern feeder (Polypodiaceae?) (Mally et al. 2017).

References

• Mally, R., Léger, T., Vairappan, C.S., Sutton, S. & Nuss, M. (2017) Discovery of another fern-feeding group of moths: the larvae of Hoploscopini (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea) from Borneo. Raffles Bull. Zool. 65: 99-106.
  
• Léger, T., Kehlmaier, C., Vairappan, C.S., Nuss, M. (2020) Twenty-six new species of Hoploscopa (Lepidoptera, Crambidae) from South-East Asia revealed by morphology and DNA barcoding. ZooKeys 908: 1-99. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.907.36563