New species in Rejectaria Guenée (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Herminiinae) with a focus on the Cyclanthaceae-feeders
Author
Goldstein, Paul Z.
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, National Museum of Natural History, E- 502, P. O. Box 37012, MRC 168, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012
Author
Janzen, Daniel H.
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Author
Hallwachs, Winnie
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Author
Proshek, Benjamin
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, National Museum of Natural History, E- 502, P. O. Box 37012, MRC 168, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012
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Zootaxa
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2022-01-07
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Rejectaria splendida
Schaus, 1912
Habitus
Figs 17–18
, 25–26, 28. Male genitalia
Figs 53
,
75–76
. Female genitalia
Fig. 91
Regectaria
[
sic]
splendida
, 1912
,
Annals
and
Magazine of Natural History
8, 9: 209.Type locality:
Costa Rica
:
Juan Vinas
(
Syntypes
♂
,
♀
, USNM)
Material examined. Type material
:
Rejectaria splendida
Syntypes
(
1♂
,
1♀
).
COSTA RICA
:
1♂
,
Juan Vinas CR
,
Nov.
,
Rejectaria splendida
type
Schs.
,
Type No.
17530
U.S.
N.M., USNMENT00973707,
USNM
slide 148598
;
1♀
,
Juan Vinas CR
,
Nov
,
Schaus
and
Barnes Coll
,
Rejectaria splendida Schs
♀
, USNMENT01756004,
USNM
slide 148641.
Diagnosis.
See Diagnosis for
atrax
,
above.
Supplement to original description.
Head
. (Figs 25, 26, 28) Frons, vertex dark brown; antennae setoseciliate; male palpi (Fig. 25) predominantly brown with scattered white scales; overall shape squared, the 1
st
and 2
nd
segments forming right angles, 1
st
segment turned upward at a 90˚ angle before meeting the 2
nd
segment; 2
nd
segment curving gently for most of its length before turning sharply backward, well above the head; when everted from the 3
rd
segment, hair pencils forming expansive tan-colored fans; female palpi (Figs 26, 28) with 2
nd
segment more than twice as long as either of the other two; third segment bladelike, vaguely hastate, white scales at base and tip.
Thorax
.
Wings—
(males, 24.5, n=2; female,
25mm
, n=1) FW with dark brown median field, heterogeneous pale frosting in basal and postmedial fields, frosting in the postmedial area concentrated in the subapical patch and towards the pm line where it meets the inner margin; st line a faint discontinuous series of white markings, terminal line a series of white dashes; finge brown; pm, st and terminal lines continue on HW; HW paler, more dingy gray-brown than FW.
Legs—
(Figs 25, 26, 28) Scaling predominantly chocolate brown with incomplete creamcolored segmental bands on legs and at base of tibial spurs; male forefemoral tuft present, chocolate brown with scattered white scaling; foretibia cream-colored laterally; female foreleg and midleg with additional white scaling at segments.
FIGURES 25–30
Head/lateral aspects.
25
♂
R. splendida
, Syntype, Costa Rica, USNMENT00973707, Slide USNM148598.
26
♀
R. splendida
, Syntype, Costa Rica, USNMENT01756004, Slide USNM148641.
27
♂
Narcaea atrax
(=
Rejectaria atrax
), Holotype, Ecuador, USNMENT00973692, Slide USNM148640.
28
♀
R. splendida
, Syntype, Costa Rica, USNMENT01756004, Slide USNM148641.
29
♂
R. paratrax
, Holotype, French Guiana.
30
♀
R. paratrax
, French Guiana, USNMENT01422973
Abdomen
. Gray-brown above, concolorous with hindwing uppersides.
Male genitalia
. (
Figs 53
,
75–76
) Uncus elongate, setose, sheepsfoot-shaped; costal margin sclerotized throughout, free distally as a thumblike protruberance; outer margin not smooth, but with 2-3 protrusions bearing small setal tufts; vinculum bluntly tapered; phallic ridge undeveloped; vesica with small subbasal ridge-like field of minute spines; microspines diffusely distributed on basal lobes; body of vesica flanked by sub-conical lobes; spinules concentrated on subbasal lobe.
Female genitalia
. Unknown.
Immature stages
. Unknown.
Biology.
Unknown.
Distribution.
Known from
Costa Rica
Remarks.
See Remarks under
R. atrax
,
above.