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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Hypatopa
gena
Adamski, new species
(
Figs. 272
,
407
, Map 51)
Diagnosis.—
Hypatopa
gena
can be distinguished from other
Hypatopa
by having a grayish-brown ground color to the forewing with faint markings.
Description.—Head: Scales on vertex and frontoclypeus grayish-brown tipped with pale grayish brown. Outer and inner surfaces of labial palpus brown intermixed with few pale-brown scales along apical margins of segments 1–2. Antennal scape grayish brown intermixed with few pale grayish-brown scales, pecten pale grayish brown, flagellum brownish gray basally gradually brightening apically. Proboscis pale brown.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum agouti patterned, grayish brown on basal and apical 1/3s, pale brown on middle 1/3. Legs brown intermixed with grayish-brown scales near midsegments and along apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (
Fig. 407
): Length 7.1–7.5 mm (n = 2), grayish brown intermixed with few brown scales; submedian fascia complete, faint; cell with three brown 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. 272
): Apophyses posteriores
2X
longer than apophyses anteriores. Eighth tergum with darkly pigmented median longitudinal streak. Ostium bursae within sparsely microtrichiate membrane posterior to seventh segment; inception of ductus seminalis at base of slightly dilated antrum equidistant between posterior and anterior margins of seventh sternum; Posterior margin of seventh sternum broadly emarginate laterally and mesially, forming two rounded lobes anterior to Ostium bursae. Ductus bursae 1 1/
3X
longer than apophyses posteriores, with two rows of internal platelets on anterior 1/3. Corpus bursae ovoid, spinulate; signum stout, conical.
Holotype
, Ƥ
, “
COSTA RICA
: San Jos, Cuidad Colon, El Rodeo,
950
m
,
21-VI-1998, col. Kenji Nishida, “INBio, Ƥ Genitalia Slide by D
.
Adamski, No. 2710 [yellow label]
.
Paratype
Ƥ, “
COSTA RICA
: San Jos, Cuidad Colon, El Rodeo,
950 m
,
21-VI-1998
, col. Kenji Nishida, “Ƥ Slide No. 2712 [
1 in
INBio].
MAP 51.
Distribution of
Hypatopa
gena
(●) and
H. vitis
(˔).
Distribution (Map 51).
Hypatopa
gena
is known from one collecting site on the eastern part of the Cordillera de Talamanca in south-central
Costa Rica
.
Etymology. The specific epithet
gena
is derived from the Latin referring, to the cheeks and the chin.