Peleopoda lobitarsis Zeller 1877

Peleopoda lobitarsis Zeller

Peleopoda lobitarsis Zeller, 1877, p. 287.

Alar expanse, 13 mm.

Antenna white basally, dark brown beyond. Labial palpus white, second segment brown exteriorly except apex. Head, thorax white, slightly tinged with yellow. Legs white tinged with yellow, fore and midleg with tibia and tarsi heavily shaded with brown, hindleg with tibia and each tarsal segment heavily shaded with brown, each bearing a dorsal yellow-brown scale tuft. Forewing white tinged with yellow, costa narrowly edged with yellow, spot at end of cell brown, cilia white, yellow basally from costa at four-fifths to middle of termen. Hind wing white, cilia white shaded yellow at apex.

MALE GENITALIA (WDD 3928).—Uncus bifid, moderate. Gnathal plate fused. Anellus a simple band with posterior flap, without lateral lobes. Valvae asymmetrical; one twice as broad as the other, approximately uniform in width to two-thirds, then narrowing to rounded apex by excavation of ventral margin; other narrow, approximately uniform width throughout. Aedeagus large, curved membranous ventrally from approximately one-half, dorsal portion expanded into hoodlike flap at apex, vesica without cornuti.

FEMALE GENITALIA.—Unknown.

TYPE.—Lost.

TYPE LOCALITY.—Chiriqui, Panama.

HOST PLANT.—Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION.—Panama: Chiriqui (no date).

Peru: Jurimaguas (no date).

Peleopoda lobitarsis is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1877. It is found in Panama.