Systematics of Sparganothoides Lambert and Powell, 1986 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Sparganothini)
Author
Kruse, James J.
Author
Powell, Jerry A.
text
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.2150.1.1
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Sparganothoides capitiornata
Kruse and Powell
,
new species
Figs. 27
,
51
,
82
Diagnosis
.
Sparganothoides capitiornata
is very similar to
S. canorisana
, but the shape of the apex of the uncus (with minute cylindrical processes in
S. capitiornata
compared to subrectangular in
S. canorisana
) and the shape of the apical portion of the socii/gnathos arm (a treble clef-shaped lobe in
S. canorisana
compared to mitten-shaped in
S. capitiornata
) clearly separate the two.
Description
.
Male
.
Head
: Frons yellowish brown, smooth scaled; vertex roughened laterally, yellowish brown to brown; two large exoskeletal protuberances between mesal-posterior margins of compound eyes, angled toward middle; one large conical protuberance between antennae; broad area of densely packed, short, yellowish brown scales between anterior and posterior protuberances; short, erect, yellowish white scales between posterior protuberances. Labial palpus white mesally, yellowish brown to brown laterally. Antennal scaling yellowish brown to brown.
Thorax
: Smooth scaled laterally, yellowish brown or brown, dense column of short yellowish white to brownish yellow scales mesally; tegula with clump small orange or brown pointed scales at apex giving tegula truncate appearance. Forewing length
9.1–10.2 mm
(= 9.7; n = 10). Forewing costal fold extending slightly less than half of wing length, costa curled beyond middle of wing; forewing ground color yellowish brown to brown, with heavy scattering of brown scales and spots; tornal mark represented by small brown spot dorsad, or absent; indistinct brown and orange transverse strigulae throughout subterminal and terminal areas; some specimens with irridescent purple scales associated with strigulae; often with brown spot at apex of discal cell. Fringe yellowish brown. Hindwing gray, often with diffuse dense gray transverse striae throughout.
Abdomen
: Genitalia (
Fig. 27
; slide #JJK298; NMNH;
Guatemala
, Volcán Santa María; n = 7) uncus long, slender, curved, with long setae dorsally and lacking a distinct patch of small setae ventrally, ovately widened subapically, with two minute cylindrical processes apically; tegumen raised and rounded at base of uncus; socius narrowly rounded to subtriangular posteriorly, secondary arms long, slender, abruptly angled near middle, enlarged apices strongly asymmetrically bilobed, somewhat mitten-shaped; transtilla sclerotized, conspicuously bilobed, spines large, numerous over middle one-third of posterior margin, anterior process reinforced with invagination at middle; valva subrectangular with sclerotized, curved crease connecting to near base of sacculus and extending over two-thirds of valva; costa concavely curved; sacculus convex; pulvinus present; phallus pistol-shaped, aedeagus parallel-sided, slightly curved, shorter than phallobase, with ventral lip apically, attached to juxta by a thin process; phallobase long, with a short bulb; cornuti with minute spine near base.
Female
.
Head, Thorax
: Essentially as described for male. Forewing length
9.9–10.7 mm
(= 10.1; n = 4).
Abdomen
: Genitalia (
Fig. 51
; slide #JJK297; NMNH;
Guatemala
, Volcán Santa María; n = 4) with papillae anales parallel-sided, subtriangular posteriorly; sterigma srtrongly sclerotized ventrally, concave anteriorly; ductus bursae short, widened anteriorly; corpus bursae large, irregularly rounded; signum more than three times as long as wide, simple, weakly curved, rounded at apices.
Type material
.
Holotype
: Male:
GUATEMALA
: Volcán Santa María, vii[no year],
Schaus
&
Barnes Collection
(
NMNH
).
Paratypes
(
14♂
,
4♀
).
GUATEMALA
:
Volcán Santa María
, vii.[no year] (
7♂
,
2♀
),
Schaus
&
Barnes Collection
(
EME
,
NMNH
), vi.[no year] (
4♂
,
2♀
), x.[no year] (
1♂
), xi.[no year] (
2♂
),
Schaus
&
Barnes Collection
(
NMNH
)
.
Immature stages
. Unknown.
Biology
. This species has been captured in June and July and in October and November, suggesting two broods annually.
Etymology
. The name was proposed by
Lambert (1950)
and is derived from the Latin “capitis” (= head) and “ornatus” (= ornament), referring to the protuberances of the head.