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
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Insecta Mundi
2021
2021-05-28
2021
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5042023
1942-1354
5042023
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Chlamydastis irenecanasae
Phillips and Brown
,
new species
Figures 42
,
81
,
116
Holotype
.
Male,
Costa Rica
,
Guanacaste
, ACG, Sector Pitilla, Leonel,
510 m
,
18.vi.2009
, D. Martínez, reared from larva feeding on
Pouteria campechiana
(Sapotaceae)
, 09-SRNP-70878, GenBank accession code HM885042 (
USNM
).
Paratypes
(
5♂
,
10♀
). See Appendix 1.
Additional specimens
(
14♂
,
2♀
). See Appendix 1.
Diagnosis.
Chlamydastis irenecanasae
is most similar to
C. dondavisi
, but it can be easily distinguished by its smaller forewing length (7.0 vs. 9.0 mm) and several features of the male genitalia described below in the diagnosis of
C. dondavisi
.
Description.
MALE (
Fig. 42
).
Head
. Frons mostly white with scattered dark brown scales, vertex mostly brown with scattered white scales; labial palpus fawn-cream, with scattered white scales on all segments; antenna with sensory setae ca. 3.0 times width of flagellomere.
Thorax
. Dorsum and tegula pale fawn brown, with band of white scales near anterior margin that extends to base of FW. FW length 7.0 mm; FW pale brown-ocherous with faint, ill-defined, slightly darker brown blotch near middle of hind margin with two or three small patches of raised brown and white scales; two or three tiny patches of raised brown scales in discal cell; usually with one or two pale red-brown lines in apical region. HW brown.
Abdomen
. Externally brown-scaled; segment 4 with lateral, membranous, conelike projections from pleural membrane (visible in dissections). Internally with sclerotized, elongate pleural processes of segments 6–7 extending deep into previous segment. Genitalia (
Fig. 81
) with uncus short, stout, slightly narrowed subapically; gnathos membranous; valva subtriangular with long, slender, armlike process from base extending well beyond uncus, curving near middle, with a long, slender, curved thorn at apex; specialized (arrowhead) setae along inner margin of armlike process, concentrated in basal 0.35; sacculus confined to basal 0.33 of valva with free, spinelike distal part extending behind valva; juxta with lateral processes more or less parallel-sided, rounded distally, not as long as plate of juxta; phallus pistol-shaped, vesica with long, slender, sclerotized process with three small distal teeth.
FEMALE.
Head
and
Thorax
. Essentially as described for male, except sensory setae of antenna short, sparse; FW length 7.0 mm; sometimes with narrow white line of scales from hind margin near middle of FW.
Abdomen
. Lacking conelike projections from pleuron. Genitalia (
Fig. 116
) with papillae anales rounded and slightly diverging posteriorly; ductus bursae long, slender, uniform in width, ca. 4 times length of corpus bursae, with region of longitudinal wrinkles in posterior 0.3; corpus bursae round with mustache-shaped signum, slightly attenuate at each end and narrowed in middle.
DNA barcodes.
The six barcodes of
C. irenecanasae
form a uniform BIN (BOLD:AAA0116), with identical sequence data, with a distance of 4.33% to its nearest neighbor,
C. dondavisi
.
Distribution.
Chlamydastis irenecanasae
has been collected throughout the Pacific side of the country from ACG to ACOSA in the South. A few specimens have been light-trapped in the ACG at middle elevations.
Biology.
This species has been reared from
Pouteria campechiana
Baehni
(n = 3),
Pouteria viridis
(Pittier) Cronquist
(n = 1), and
Pouteria cainito
L. (n = 1) (all
Sapotaceae
).
Etymology.
The specific epithet is a patronym for Irene Cañas in recognition of her contributions to the national biodiversity inventory of
Costa Rica
.