Descriptions of five new species of the Neotropical Mictopsichia group of genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
Author
Razowski, Józef
text
Zootaxa
2011
3058
63
68
journal article
46181
10.5281/zenodo.207229
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1175-5326
207229
Mictopsichia chirripoana
sp. n.
Figs. 7
,
10
Diagnosis.
In facies,
M. chirripoana
is similar to
M
.
gemmisparsana
, but
M
.
chirripoana
has a greater forewing length, a darker brown forewing ground color, and broad suffusion of the hindwing, particularly in the apical region, that is either faint or lacking in
M
.
gemmisparsana
.
Description.
Head
: Brownish; labial palpus cream with terminal brown marking, length over 1.5 times diameter of compound eye.
Thorax
: Dark brown. Forewing length 6.7 mm; forewing weakly expanding terminad; termen not oblique, slightly concave medially; ground colour brownish; some dirty orange spots along termen; weak brown reticulation in posterior third of wing; refractive markings present; remnants of usual dark markings illdefined. Fringe brownish, cream yellowish at median part of termen. Hindwing orange; costal part of wing suffused brownish; apical markings fasciate, blackish; cubito-anal area brown, reticulated with cream and brown at mid-third of median cell, with black and silvery refractive scale patches. Fringe cream grey, with some paler parts.
Abdomen
: Male genitalia unknown. Female genitalia (
Fig. 7
) with papilla analis slender; sterigma weakly sclerotized with short anteostial part and dorso-proximal corners; antrum tapering proximally, membranous, with anterior sclerite; ductus bursae slender; ductus seminalis originating near antrum; signum moderate with rather small basal plate and longer blade.
FIGURES 1–8.
Male and female genitalia. 1, 2.
Mictopsichia misahaullia
sp. n.
, holotype. 3, 4.
Rubropsichia kartaboana
sp. n.
, holotype. 5, 6.
Chamaepsichia cetonia
sp. n.
, holotype. 7.
Mictopsichia chirripoana
sp. n.
, holotype. 8.
Chamaepsichia chitonregis
sp. n.
, holotype.
FIGURES 9–13.
Adults. 9.
Mictopsichia misahaullia
sp. n.
, holotype. 10.
Mictopsichia chirripoana
sp. n.
, holotype. 11.
Rubropsichia kartaboana
sp. n.
, holotype. 12.
Chamaepsichia cetonia
sp. n.
, holotype. 13.
Chamaepsichia chitonregis
sp. n.
, holotype.
Holotype
female.
Costa Rica
: San José Province: Parque National Chirripó, Llano Bonito,
2500 m
,
9°27'16''N
,
83°32'41''W
,
18 February 2005
, K. Nishida;
GS
USNM
134,114.
Etymology.
The name refers to Parque National Chirripó.