Descriptions of five new species of the Neotropical Mictopsichia group of genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
Author
Razowski, Józef
text
Zootaxa
2011
3058
63
68
journal article
46181
10.5281/zenodo.207229
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207229
Rubropsichia kartaboana
sp. n.
Figs. 3, 4
,
11
Diagnosis.
Rubropsichia kartaboana
is similar to and very closely related to
R
.
fuesliniana
and
R
.
santaremana
, but it can be distinguished from those two by its long, fused socii; its simple, slightly convex sacculus; and its short, rather plesiomorphic aedeagus.
Description.
Head
: Dark brown, vertex beige; labial palpus dark brown, length ca. 1.3 times diameter of compound eye.
Thorax
: Olive brown, with median part and collar orange. Forewing length 9.5 mm (n = 2); ground colour orange, much paler in apical and tornal areas; reticulation dark grey; refractive pattern distinct; markings in posterior third of wing and blotch before mid-costa dark brown. Fringe brown, paler basally. Hindwing orange with brown lines: small apical fascia, long subapical fascia, and incomplete fascia extending from end of CuP. Fringe brownish, more cream above dark brown basal line.
Abdomen
: Male genitalia (
Figs. 3, 4
) with socii long, fused medially; uncus greatly reduced; vinculum broad; valva slender, long, weakly angulate beyond ventral concavity, with strong group of bristles near angle; sacculus slender, weakly convex; aedeagus short, broad; coecum penis short. Female unknown.
Holotype
male.
British Guiana
: Bartica District: Kartabo,
23 August 1922
;
GS
USNM
134,117.
Paratype
(one male): Same data as
holotype
, except
26 September 1922
.
Etymology.
The name refers to the
type
locality of Kartabo.