New species of Oecophoridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) from Chile
Author
Urra, Francisco
0000-0002-4525-8449
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Casilla 787, Santiago, Chile. & francisco. urra @ mnhn. gob. cl; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4525 - 8449
francisco.urra@mnhn.gob.cl
Author
Araneda, Sebastián
0000-0002-9286-0387
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Casilla 787, Santiago, Chile. & gamboni. aranedaseb @ gmail. com https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9286 - 0387
Author
Moreira, Gilson R. P.
0000-0003-3132-7164
PPG Biologia Animal, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre RS, 91501 - 970, Brazil. gilson. moreira @ ufrgs. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3132 - 7164
gilson.moreira@ufrgs.br
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Zootaxa
2023
2023-03-10
5254
2
209
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5254.2.3
journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.5254.2.3
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Genus
Pirquelia
Urra, 2013
Pirquelia
Urra, 2013: 37
.
Type-species:
Pirquelia aragoni
Urra, 2013: 39
, figs. 1c, 1d, 2b, 3c, 3d, 4b; by original designation and monotypy.
Urra (2013a)
described the monotypic genus
Pirquelia
based on the following combination of characters: scape of antenna with a pecten; labial palpus recurved, second segment not reaching base of antenna; FW with apex not falcate, vein R
4+5
stalked, R
5
to termen, CuP present, 1A+2A furcate; HW with veins M
3
and CuA
1
short-stalked; hindtibia with raised piliform scales; terga with spiniform setae arranged in two rows of patches, second abdominal sternum with apodemes and venulae; uncus subtriangular and gnathos subsquare, valva with cucullus sclerotized; juxta without lateral lobes; vesica without cornutus; antrum sclerotized and corpus bursae with signum. Other characters shared with the
type
species
Pirquelia aragoni
are: yellow coloration of the wings; in male valva longer than wide, sclerotized process of cucullus, tegumen with strong anterior emargination; in the female, a sclerotized plate posterior to the ostium bursae. For these reasons we include the new species in this genus.