Systematics and faunistics of Neotropical Eucosmini. 1. Chimoptesis Powell, 1964 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
Author
Razowski, Józef
Author
Becker, Vitor Osmar
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Chimoptesis caera
,
sp. n.
Figs 7
,
41
Diagnosis.
Chimoptesis caera
is related to
C. dentitia
, but
C
.
caera
has a smaller uncus, oval socii (tapering in
C. dentitia
), and simple aedeagus; the valva of this species resembles that of
C
.
faceta
but has a short thornless part of the cucullus.
Description.
Wing span
19 mm
. Male: Head cream brown, thorax brownish. Forewing rather slender; costa straight; fold indistinct; termen not concave. Ground colour brownish, sprinkled whitish; suffusions and strigulation brown; costal strigulae fine, white; divisions brown; ocellar area greyish. Markings concolorous with divisions: basal blotch atrophied, median fascia diffuse proximally. Cilia brown-black. Hindwing cream brown; cilia creamer. Genitalia (
Fig. 7
) with uncus small, moderately broad; socius elongate-oval, densely hairy; basal part of valva broad, neck short, slender; sacculus angulate, weakly convex; cucullus broadening postmedially; aedeagus simple. Female: Unknown.
Holotype
male: "
Mexico
: Chiapas,
San Cristobal
de las Casas,
2300 m
,
23–27.VI.1981
, V.O. Becker Col; Col. Becker 43782"; GS 832 WZ. Four male
paratypes
with identical label data.
Etymology.
The name refers to the ease of identification of this species; Greek: kairos—convenient.