Description of Ptychocroca, a new genus from Chile and Argentina, with comments on the Bonagota Razowski group of genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Euliini)
Author
Brown, John W.
Author
Razowski, Józef
text
Zootaxa
2003
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.156574
09c16756-690f-4b64-855f-b7194ef3b3c3
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156574
Apotomops boliviana
Brown and Razowski
,
new species
Figs. 14
,
25
,
39
Diagnosis.
Apotomops boliviana
is indistinguishable superficially from most congeners. Sexual dimorphism in forewing pattern is subtle as in most
Apotomops
, although the single female is considerably larger than either of the two males. The white hindwings of
A. boliviana
may be unique in the genus. The male genitalia are similar to those of
A. carchicola
, but can be distinguished easily by the single pointed tooth from the dorsum of the sacculus compared to the dense row of teeth present in
A. carchicola
.
Description.
Head
: White scaled; antenna simple, flagellomeres rounded, male with extremely short cilia.
Thorax
: Forewing (
Fig. 39
) length
7.5 mm
in males, 11.0 mm in female; ground color white, overscaled and faintly mottled with gray in distal 0.5; slender black oblique bar from costa ca. 0.15 distance from base to apex; small semicircular blotch near middle of costa; costal portion of basal half of forewing blackish brown, with scaling extending nearly to costal blotch, isolating a subrectangular white patch in basal 0.5; hindwing white, pale beige in apical region, lacking male secondary structures.
Abdomen
: Male genitalia (
Fig. 14
) with uncus short, stout, dilated near middle; socii short; gnathos unmodified; transtilla a simple bridge; valva uniform in width, curved dorsally throughout, rounded apically, sacculus with a single attenuate tooth at dorsal edge, followed distally by a short, weakly serrate region; aedeagus complex, with an extremely long, slender curved spine from phallobase; phallobase with two large asymmetrical lobes. Female genitalia (
Fig. 25
) with papillae anales simple; anterior portion of sterigma forming a large pocket with deep Vshaped lateral lobes; accessory bursa poorly defined; ductus bursae comparatively narrow; corpus bursae oblong, without spicules or signum.
Holotype
, ɗ,
Bolivia
, Cochabamba, Incachaca, tropical cloud area,
2100 m
,
27 Aug–5 Sep 1956
, L. Peña (USNM).
Paratypes
.
Bolivia
: Same data as
holotype
(1Ψ) (USNM). Cochabamba, Chapare, El Limbo,
2000 m
,
April 1954
(1ɗ), F. Steinbach (USNM).
Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the country,
Bolivia
.