Systematics and faunistics of Neotropical Eucosmini. 1. Chimoptesis Powell, 1964 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
Author
Razowski, Józef
Author
Becker, Vitor Osmar
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journal article
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Chimoptesis rubigo
,
sp. n.
Figs 15
,
30
Diagnosis.
Chimoptesis rubigo
is related to
C. phanera
; in facies it is similar to
C. castanescens
, but
C
.
rubigo
can be distinguished by the strong, curved folds of the subgenital sternite.
Description.
Wing span
18 mm
. Male: Unknown. Female: Head and thorax cream, labial palpus brownish laterally, tegula brown. Forewing weakly expanding terminally; termen somewhat oblique, indistinctly sinuate. Ground colour yellowish olive, suffused brown, strigulated grey-brown, tinged rust posteriorly, suffused whitish postmedially; costal strigulae minute, cream; divisions dark brown. Markings reduced to brown rust median fascia with rust dorsal part; apical area and part of termen rust brown. Variation in forewing ground colour with one
paratype
brownish cream, more rust in posterior area; dorsal patch cream tinged rust; costal strigulae cream; divisions brown; ocellus with weak spots and lines; markings brown. Cilia brown, suffused black especially at apex. Hindwing brownish cream, browner on peripheries; cilia paler.Genitalia (
Fig. 15
) with posterior part of sterigma broad, with short postostial portion; antrum sclerite tubular, uniformly broad in proximal half; folds of subgenital sternite distinctly curved; cingulum rather short, fused with additional weak sclerite; signa large.
Holotype
female. "
Mexico
: Chiapas,
San Cristobal
de las Casas,
2300 m
,
23–27.VI.1981
, V.O. Becker Col; Col. Becker 43786"; GS 833 WZ. Two female
paratypes
with identical label data; one with GS 846 WZ.
Etymology.
The specific name refers to the colouration of the forewing: Latin: rubigo—a rust.