S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 63. (Budapest, 2002)

The new species is the first known representative of the genus Heteroconis in Thailand. Etymology - I dedicate this species to Edit Horváth. Heteroconis sakaeratica sp. n. (Figs 4-7) Holotype - Male: "Thailand, Prov. Prachin Bud, Sakaerat Forest, mixed evergreen forest, 7.VI.

2001, singled in the herb level, 1.: E. Horváth, Gy. Sziráki". Deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Description - Head without corniform projection. Occiput and frons light brown. Face and head capsule behind the eyes dark brown. Eyes rather small, black. Palpi dark brown. Antennae 18-segmented, 0.8 mm long. Scape about four times as long as broad, pedicel two times as long as broad, most of the flagellar segments about as long as broad. The 7th and the 11-15th flagellar segments are dark brown, the other parts of the antennae white. Thorax light brown, legs and abdomen pale ochreous. Colour of wing membrane brown, except a narrow strip along the Rs, at the endings of the other longitudinal veins, and at the cross veins of fore wing, as well as a narrow strip along the M and at the cross veins of the hind wing, where the membrane is hyaline. Length of fore wing 2.0 mm, of hind wing 1.8 mm. Basal cross veins Rs-M and M-Cu, of fore wing meet M between the median thickenings. Male genitalia as in Figs 4-7: Ectoproct small, in lateral view rounded. Ninth stemite narrow, without distinct projection. Hypandrium (seemingly a dorsal duplication of ninth stemite) has a well sclerotized, in ventral view mushroom-like caudal projection and two small, rather acute knobs. Gonocoxite proximally broad, caudally pointed. Stylus large, broad. Between the bases of the styli there is a broad, foreward curving transverse band above the penis. Behind the large dorsolateral apodemes there is a well-developed dorsal projection on the penis. End of the penis curving up and slightly foreward. Remarks - The new species is closely allied with H. helenae Sziráki, 2001. The main distinctive features of Heteroconis sakaeratica are: - distinct projection of ninth sternite absent, while in H. helenae present; - distal end of gonocoxite pointed, while in H. helenae in lateral view truncated (Sziráki 2001: Fig. 2); - caudal projection of hypandrium in ventral view mushroom-like, while in H. helenae it is three-pointed.