Chlamydastis Meyrick of Costa Rica: barcodes, biology, and descriptions of 36 new species (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae)
Author
Phillips-Rodríguez, Eugenie
Dry Forest Conservation Fund, Sector Santa Rosa, Área de Conservación Guanacaste, phillipsrodriguez @ gmail. com urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: E 798045 C-A 872 - 4 F 6 A- 82 F 4 - 5 AC 78 A 04 DDA 3
Author
Brown, John W.
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC, 20013 - 7012, USA tortricidae. jwb @ gmail. com urn: lsid: zoobank. org: author: 3 C 52 FC 4 E-E 988 - 4 AD 6 - B 0 D 1 - 9 A 5 CA 74 CB 24 C
Author
Hallwachs, Winnie
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Author
Janzen, Daniel H.
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
text
Insecta Mundi
2021
2021-05-28
2021
868
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5042023
1942-1354
5042023
1738B3CE-22AC-409B-9B04-DAD91322B278
Chlamydastis elenaulateae
Phillips and Brown
,
new species
Figures 21
,
68
,
105
,
129
Holotype
.
Male
,
Costa Rica
,
Guanacaste
, ACG,
Sector Rincón Rain Forest
,
Río
Francia,
410 m
,
25.i.2009
,
R. Franco
and
H. Cambronero
,
GenBank
accession code GU675011 (
USNM
).
Paratypes
(
28♂
,
15♀
). See Appendix 1.
Diagnosis.
Chlamydastis elenaulateae
is most similar to
C. paulhansoni
. It can be distinguished by its shorter gnathos and broader uncus with a more deeply emarginated apex.
Chlamydastis elenaulateae
can be distinguished from the related
C. gladysrojasae
by the larger, more rectangular signum (smaller and more rounded in
C. gladysrojasae
).
Description.
MALE (
Fig. 21
).
Head
. Frons and vertex brownish, collar light brown; labial palpus with first and second segments brownish, third segment paler; antenna with sensory setae ca. 1.5 times width of flagellomere.
Thorax
. Base of tegula and anterior margin of prothorax brownish, mesothorax gray, metathorax gray with a semicircular blotch of green scales on posterior end. FW length 10.0–
10.4 mm
; FW brown with faint olive green overscaling on most of wing, browner in costal 0.5, with faint black lines along veins, paler in lower 0.5, without lines along veins; small irregular green blotches near premedial line.
Abdomen
. Dorsum light brown, venter darker with paired whitish spots on central segments. Genitalia (
Fig. 68
) with uncus slender, ca. 0.7 times length of valva, with deeply emarginated apex; gnathos short; valva ovate, with rounded apex, strongly veined, with dense cluster of specialized setae near mid-costa; sacculus short, subrectangular, with a free distal end, confined to basal 0.15 of valva; phallus curved throughout, with small hook distally and a slender sclerite in vesica.
FEMALE.
Head
and
Thorax
. Essentially as described for male, except sensory setae of antenna short, sparse; FW length
12.7–12.9 mm
.
Abdomen
. Genitalia (
Fig. 105
) with papillae anales with rounded outer margin in posterior 0.5, together weakly cordate, each papilla with a distinct line of sclerotization in basal 0.5; ductus bursae slender, weakly broadened anteriorly to ill-defined junction with corpus bursae; corpus bursae subrectangular, with distinct, more-or-less parallel longitudinal creases or lines, signum subrectangular, rounded at each end.
DNA barcodes.
The 79 barcode sequences of
C. elenaulateae
form a uniform BIN (BOLD:AAA1073) with an average distance of 0.04% among sequences and a distance of 3.19% to its nearest neighbor,
C. paulhansoni
.
Distribution.
Chlamydastis elenaulateae
has been collected in ACG from
140 to 675 m
in the rain forest and rain forest-dry rain forest lowland intergrade, and in ACC Turrialba at
630 m
.
Biology.
Chlamydastis elenaulateae
has been reared from caterpillars feeding on
Chrysophyllum brenesii
Cronquist
(n = 57),
Chrysophyllum cainito
L. (n = 9),
Pouteria reticulata
(Engl.) Eyma
(n = 20), and
Sideroxylon capiri
(A. DC.) Pittier
(n = 4) (all
Sapotaceae
) (
Table 1
).
Immature stages
(
Fig. 129
). Head, T1, T2, and T3 bright red, T2 with broad yellow dorso-posterior band; abdominal segments bright red, with yellow dorso-posterior bands on A1, A2, A4, A5 and A8; A9 and A10 translucent reddish orange.
Etymology.
Chlamydastis elenaulateae
is named in honor of Elena Ulate in recognition of her technical support of the national biodiversity inventory of
Costa Rica
.