Thaumatovalva limbata (Dakonoff 1969)

Male. Head: Vertex dark brown mixed with lighter brown, upper frons concolorous with vertex, lower frons cream; labial light brown than vertex, inner surface cream; antennal scaling brown. Thorax: Dorsum dark brown, mixed with lighter brown, tegula dark brown mixed with lighter brown, most scale brown with cream tip; hind tibia with dark brown with expanded scales poorly developed. Forewing length 5.0–6.0 mm (mean = 5.5; n = 5); forewing as described for genus; hindwing nearly uniform grayish brown, conspicuously paler than forewing; patch of ca. 30 slender scales from anal margin of hindwing not inserted into scales of abdomen. Fringe conolorous with hindwing. Hindwing under surface concolorous with forewing undersurface, paler than in congeners; an inconspicuous narrow row of slightly enlarged brown scales along margin of wing from lower edge of anal margin to approximately CuP (Fig. 13). Abdomen: Brown; black scale patches subdorsally on abdominal segments 3–5 weakly developed (not visible in undissected specimens); sclerotized posterior edge of segment VIII bearing four (two on each side), long, slender sausage-shaped scales. Genitalia (Fig. 17) with valva narrow basally, broadening to middle, without triangular expansion before cucullus, outer edge of cucullus rounded, valva attenuate through cucullus, apex conspicuously more rounded than in congeners; phallus narrow, with bulbous subbasal lobe and small rounded dorsal lobe ca. 0.5 distance from base to tip, distal 0.2 beyond lobe slight curved. Female. Head and thorax: As described for male, except forewing length 6.0-8.0 mm (mean = 6.8; n = 6). Abdomen. Genitalia as described for the genus and figured for congeners.

Thaumatovalva limbata is known from Praslin, Cosmoledo, and Mahé islands in the Seychelles, and from Kenya on the mainland. Adults have been reared from larvae collected in the fruit of Cordia somaliensis and Cordia monoica in Kenya, where the species occupies a broad elevational range from 10 to 2206 m.