Review of the Blastobasinae of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Blastobasidae)
Author
Adamski, David
text
Zootaxa
2013
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.3618.1.1
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Hypatopa vitis
Adamski
,
new species
(
Figs. 273
,
408
, Map 51)
Diagnosis.—
Hypatopa vitis
can be distinguished from other
Hypatopa
by having a pale-brown ground color of the forewing with faint markings.
Description.—Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus pale brown. Outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with pale-brown scales along apical margins of segments 1–2, inner surface paler. Antennal scape pale brown intermixed with few brown scales, pecten pale brown, flagellum brown basally gradually brightening apically. Proboscis pale brown.
Thorax: Tegula with basal 1/3 brown, apical 2/3 pale brown; mesonotum with basal 1/5 brown, apical 4/5 pale brown. Legs brown intermixed with pale-brown scales near midsegments and along apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (
Fig. 408
): Length 6.5 mm (n = 1), pale brown intermixed with brownish-orange scales and few brown scales; submedian fascia faint, incomplete; cell with three faint spots, one near middle, two on apical end along crossvein; marginal spots faint. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Translucent pale brown gradually darkening to apex.
Abdomen: Male genitalia: Unknown. Female Genitalia (
Fig. 273
): Apophyses posteriores 2 1/
2X
longer than apophyses anteriores. Ostium bursae within sparse microtrichiate membrane posterior to seventh segment; inception of ductus seminalis slightly posterior to anterior margin of seventh sternum; eighth tergum with darkly pigmented mesial longitudinal streak. Posterior margin of seventh sternum straight. Ductus bursae
2X
longer than apophyses posteriores, spinulate on anterior 1/4. Corpus bursae ovoid, spinulate; signum, small, spinate, arising from rounded base.
Holotype
, Ƥ
, “Est[ación] Cacao,
2 km
SW del Cerro Cacao, Prov[incia] Guana[caste],
COSTA RICA
,
1000–1200 m
, Feb[rero]
1995
,
E
.
Phillips, L-N-
323100
, 375800, # 5448, “INBio:
COSTA RICA
: CRI002, 212765 [barcode label], “INBio, Ƥ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 4522 [yellow label].
Distribution (Map 51):
Hypatopa vitis
is known from one collecting site on the western most part of the Cordillera de Guanacaste in northwestern
Costa Rica
.
Etymology. The specific epithet
vitis
is derived from Latin meaning, a centurion's staff made of a branch of a vine.