Peleopoda convoluta Duckworth 1970

Peleopoda convoluta

Alar expanse, 23–29 mm.

Antenna yellowish white basally, light brown beyond. Labial palpus yellowish white, second segment shaded with brown exteriorly except apex. Head yellowish white, face light brown medially, dark brown laterally. Thorax light brown. Legs yellowish white, foreleg heavily shaded with brown, midleg with brown shading on tibia and tarsi. Forewing yellowish white, costa narrowly edged with dark brown on basal one-eighth, spot at end of cell, spot in cell, spot in fold consisting of a few brown scales, subterminal line of very faint brown spots, terminal line of small brown spots from apex to tornus, cilia yellowish white. Hind wing white, cilia white.

MALE GENITALIA (WDD 3834, type).—Uncus bifid, very long. Gnathal plate fused, small, with median transverse groove. Anellus with dorsomedial notch dividing dorsal half of plate into two lobes. Valvae asymmetrical, one spatulate apically, the other with large, upright costal lobe just before apex. Aedeagus large, curved, dorsal surface incised from apex to beyond midpoint, vesica without cornuti.

FEMALE GENITALIA (WDD 3829).—Ostium bursae sclerotized, not extruded beyond body wall. Ostium membranous, twice as wide as ostium bursae. Ductus bursae membranous, extremely long, convoluted. Corpus bursae membranous, signum a small, invaginated dentate plate.

TYPE.—In the National Museum of Natural History, USNM 70838.

TYPE LOCALITY.—Rancho Grande, Aragua, Venezuela.

HOST PLANT.—Unknown.

DISTRIBUTION.—Known only from the type locality.

Peleopoda convoluta is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by W. Donald Duckworth in 1970. It is found in Venezuela.