Revision of the " Aemilia " ambigua (Strecker) species-group (Noctuidae, Arctiinae)
Author
Schmidt, Christian
Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa ,, Canada
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Pseudohemihyalea
fallaciosa
(Toulgoët)
,
comb. n.
Figs. 3
,
8
,
13
,
18
,
24
,
25
Aemilia fallaciosa
Toulgoët, 1997, 81
, figs. 3, 4, 7, 10
.
Type
material.
Male
holotype
, female
allotype
[MNHN] and
39 paratypes
[MNHN, BMNH]. Type locality: “
Honduras
,
P. Morazan
,
24 km
N.E. de Tegucicalpa
[Tegucigalpa], La Tigra,
1900 m
.”
Figures 2 1
-24.
Ventral view of female 8
th
sternite and bursa copulatrix (corpus bursae on left, bulla seminalis on right).
2 1
.
P
.
ambigua
.
22
.
P
.
sonorosa
.
23
.
P
.
syracosia
.
24
.
P
.
fallaciosa
.
Diagnosis
.
This is the most easily recognized member of the
ambigua
-group. The tooth-like mark at the distal end of the forewing cell and the presence of a lined posterior cubital vein are diagnostic. Other diagnostic characters are the small size (mean male forewing length 18.4 mm), and thin forewing vein lines. Internally, the basal lobes of the uncus are slightly flattened (globose in other species) and divided by a broad, u-shaped cleft, compared to the narrow, v-shaped cleft in other species.
Biology
and distribution.
Collection dates for
P
.
fallaciosa
are late May to late July and early September. It has been collected at elevations of
1400 m
to
1900 m
, from
Chiapas
,
Mexico
south to
Guatemala
and
Honduras
.