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Neogabara Wileman
& West
Type
species: plagiola Wileman & West.
The only
species is small, with narrow forewings, brown, with fine, linear antemedial and
postmedial fasciae that diverge from the dorsum to the costa, the antemedial
transverse, the postmedial oblique, slightly sinuous. The tornus is weakly
falcate. The hindwings are slightly paler than the forewings. The labial palps
are directed forwards and have a second segment that expands distally. The third
segment is shorter, set obliquely down from the second. The clypeofrons appears
to be fully scaled. The phragma lobes of the second abdominal tergite are small
and well separated.
The male
abdomen has an unusual modification of the framed corematous type of eighth
sternite, with a single central corema in a somewhat heart-shaped frame with the
‘point’ distal, cut off and slightly notched. The tergite has the
central thickening rhomboidal rather than tapering
away to the broader, more setal distal margin. The genitalia have what appears
to be a large, triangular, paratergal sclerite between the tegumen and vinculum
on each side. The valve is slender, curved up slightly and with a slight apical
corona. There is an interior harpe to the sacculus. The aedeagus is small,
narrow, sinuous, with a small vesica. The insertion of the ductus ejaculatorius
is well distal from the base, at about two fifths.
The
female has the terminal segments elongate, slender, extensile, with very long
apodemes. The ostium is just posterior to the eighth segment, and there is a
deep intersegmental membrane between it and the seventh segment. The ductus is
mostly very slender to the junction with the ductus seminalis, beyond which it
is broader and more crinkled, narrowing again at the junction with the ovate
corpus bursae. The corpus bursae appears to have a highly pilose interior.
The
subfamily placement of this genus requires further investigation. It lacks
catocaline features. The valves of the male genitalia show some, (possibly
superficial) resemblance to those of Marapana.
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