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Figs 1
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101218
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="70">Type species.</paragraph>
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, 1881
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<paragraph pageId="1" pageNumber="70">Etymology.</paragraph>
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The name is feminine in gender, formed by combining the words Andes and -obia from the generic name
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.
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.
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is related to
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, but is distinguished by the following combination of characters: eyes reduced and ellipsoid, 1.4-1.6
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as high as wide, gena with broader unscaled area laterally; posterior antennal rami 1.2-1.5
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and anterior rami 1.1-1.5
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longer than segment length (longest anterior and posterior rami 3
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as long as segment in
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); 2nd labial segment short and stout, 1.1
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as long as wide, 2
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longer than apical segment; thoracic collar concolourous with dorsal thoracic vestiture (contrastingly paler ochre in
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); thoracic vestiture sparse and shaggy, compared to dense and pilose vestiture in
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;femur and tibia very stout, 3.0-3.5
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longer than wide compared to 4.5-5.6
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in
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; metatibia of
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with one pair of spurs, two pairs in
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; medial line of forewing absent in
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, present in
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; postmedial line never double in
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, often double in
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; hindwing discal spot small and sharpor absent in
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, diffuse and more elongate in
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.
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is endemic to the Puna grasslands of the high Andes of Peru and Bolivia.
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="71">Description.</paragraph>
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Male. Head - vestiture dark brown to black, shaggy appearance, setae long; antenna weakly bipectinate, ciliate ventrally; longest posterior rami 1.3-2.0
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segment length, longest anterior rami 1.1-1.8
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segment length; rami longest over middle third of antenna, decreasing in length toward base and apex; eye elliptical, 1.4-1.6
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as high as wide; labial palps short, not extending beyond vestiture of frons; 2nd labial segment short and stout, 1.1
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as long as wide, 2
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longer than apical segment; haustellum reduced and poorly sclerotized, presumably non-functional. Thorax - vestiture of vertex and ventrum of thorax black brown; tegulae and patagia black brown; legs black brown, dorsum of femur ochre or dull pinkish red, co-varying with hindwing and abdomen ground colour; apex of prothoracic tibia with two subequal, blunt, triangular projections; two meso- and metathoracic tibial spurs, posterior spur slightly longer than anterior, length of spurs approximately equal to tibial width at apex; metepisternum with rounded ridge along anterior margin, metepisternal microtymbals absent. Forewing - relatively small for an arctiine, forewing length 8-13 mm, elongate with apex less rounded than in
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and Spilosoma, length:width ratio averaging 2.2; ground colour ochre yellow, whitish to pinkish red or brownish grey; markings varying from obsoloete (
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) to well defined, grey-brown transverse bands; when present, darker pattern consisting of dark-brown basal area, sub-basal band, discal spot, postmedial band and marginal band; bands occasionally confluent along anal margin; ventrally with bands obsolete except for marginal band, and with a brighter yellowish or reddish ground colour. Hindwing - ground colour slightly richer yellowish or reddish than forewing, with dark-brown to grey-brown marginal band, varying from nearly obsolete (reduced to intermittent diffuse spots extending from apex halfway to anal angle), to broad and diffuse over distal third of wing; brownish, crescentic discal spot small but usually well defined, sometimes absent; ventrally with dark markings less saturated. Abdomen - Segments A1-A3 entirely brownish black, remaining segments ochre or reddish subdorsally, with brownish-black dorsal line, widest in
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; ventrally, varying from entirely brownish black (
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) to black with narrow ochre border on distal margin of
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(
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) or entirely ochre (
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); coremata highly reduced to paired patches of sparse, deciduous setae. Genitalia - highly simplified overall with massive, triangular dorsoventrally flattened uncus characteristic of subtribe; uncus as long as width of base, broadly joined to wide, band-like tegumen; dorsal margin of tegumen caudally recurved; valve simple and digitate, lacking processes or claspers, 1-1.7
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as long as uncus-tegumen complex; vinculum semicircular, saccus v-shaped, similar in length to uncus; juxta evenly convex and hemispherical, dorsal margin slightly narrowed; aedeagus relatively large and stout, 3
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longer than wide, 1.5
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as long as width of genital capsule, curving dorsad 25-30°, proximal end approximately ⅓ narrower than apex; coecum 1/10 length of aedeagus, directed slightly ventrad; vesica directed dorso-distad, globose, finely spiculate, with small basal and poorly differentiated apical diverticulum. Female (
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and
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only; female of
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and
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unknown). Head - antennae 0.5
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as long as that of male, finely biserrate; proboscis atrophied; vestiture of closely appressed, ochre scales, lacking long, shaggy black scales present in males. Thorax - vestiture similar to that of head, notably lacking
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appearance of males; legs reduced, 2/3 as long as those of male. Forewing and hindwing - micropterous and highly reduced, forewing 1.5-2.5 mm long, fully scaled and concoulours with dull tan colour of thorax, but without any discernible wing pattern.Abdomen - light ochre gray with fine, short velvety hairs, tergites well sclerotized, black, giving dorsum of abdomen appearance of a broad, black medial band; ventrally with narrower, lighter grayish-black medial band; integument broad and membranous laterally, allowing for distension caused by ova. Genitalia (based on
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) - ostium and lamella antevaginalis membranous and poorly defined; lamella postvaginalis consisting of a broad, shallow sclerotized pouch; ductus bursae lightly sclerotized, dorsoventrally flattened, 2
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as long as wide; corpus bursae pear shaped, and relatively small, 2
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as longh as ductus bursae; diameter of distal, globose chamber 2
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width of ductus bursae; signum lacking; ductus seminalis wide and rugose, bulla seminalis large, diameter 1.5
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that of corpus bursae; posterior apophysis equal in length to papillae anales, anterior apophysis 0.6
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as long as papillae anales; each paired dorsal pheromone gland consisting of two tree-like subdivisions, each subdivision with 3-5 smaller diverticula.
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Figures 1-4. Adult habitus of male
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and
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species 1
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2
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2b
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(holotype of
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Gaede) 3a,b
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4a,b,c,d
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.
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Figures 5-6. Adult habitus of female 5
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6
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.
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="72">Remarks.</paragraph>
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Structurally,
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is quite homogeneous, the main species-level differences occuring in the length and shape of the male valve and the vesica. The highly simplified, digitate male valve and massive uncus-tegumen compex is shared with several other Neotropical genera including
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,
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,
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Ferguson and
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Schmidt. The mtDNA barcode sequence (
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) does not provide any additional resolution of relationships within this group, with minimum pairwise distances (uncorrected) between
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,
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Arctiidae" genus="Paracles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paracles" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="72" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paracles</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Arctiidae" genus="Phragmatobia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Phragmatobia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="72" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Phragmatobia</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" genus="Leichosila" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Leichosila" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="72" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Leichosila</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Arctiidae" genus="Caribarctia" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Caribarctia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="72" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Caribarctia</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Arctiidae" genus="Phaos" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Phaos" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="72" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Phaos</taxonomicName>
ranged from 6-8%. Sequences for
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" genus="Patagobia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Patagobia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="72" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Patagobia</taxonomicName>
were not available.
</paragraph>
<paragraph lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="73" pageId="3" pageNumber="72">
Several Andean species are superficially similar to
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" genus="Andesobia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Andesobia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="72" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Andesobia</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" genus="Patagobia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Patagobia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="72" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Patagobia</taxonomicName>
, and require comment.
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Arctiidae" genus="Paracles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paracles herbuloti" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="72" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="herbuloti">Paracles herbuloti</taxonomicName>
(
<normalizedToken originalValue="Toulgoët">Toulgoet</normalizedToken>
),
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Arctiidae" genus="Paracles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paracles minuta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="72" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="minuta">Paracles minuta</taxonomicName>
Becker &amp; Miller, and
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Arctiidae" genus="Paracles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paracles diminuta" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="3" pageNumber="72" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="diminuta">Paracles diminuta</taxonomicName>
Becker &amp; Miller are small species with a simple or highly reduced
<pageBreakToken pageId="4" pageNumber="73" start="start">forewing</pageBreakToken>
pattern. Females of all three are unknown, but the structurally similar and probably congeneric
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" genus="Chilesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chilesia anguloi" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="anguloi">Chilesia anguloi</taxonomicName>
Ruiz,
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" genus="Chilesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chilesia rudis" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="rudis">Chilesia rudis</taxonomicName>
(Butler) and
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" genus="Chilesia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chilesia watsoni" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="watsoni">Chilesia watsoni</taxonomicName>
Ruiz have micropterous females (
<bibRefCitation author="Ruiz, VH" journalOrPublisher="Gayana (Zoologia)" pageId="11" pageNumber="80" pagination="117 - 181" title="Revision sistematica de la familia Arctiidae en Chile (Lepidoptera)." volume="53" year="1989">Ruiz 1989</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation author="Vargas, HA" journalOrPublisher="Gayana" pageId="12" pageNumber="81" pagination="122 - 125" title="Descripcion de la hembra y de las estructuras genitales de Chilesia anguloi Ruiz (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae)." volume="67" year="2003">Vargas and Parra 2003</bibRefCitation>
). Despite these similarities to
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" genus="Andesobia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Andesobia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Andesobia</taxonomicName>
(and
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" genus="Patagobia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Patagobia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Patagobia</taxonomicName>
), the broader, more rounded wings, shorter, rounder saccus, greatly elongated tegumen, very short valva, and small vesica are consistent with those of other
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Arctiidae" genus="Paracles" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Paracles" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Paracles</taxonomicName>
species, and not with
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" genus="Andesobia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Andesobia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Andesobia</taxonomicName>
or
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" genus="Patagobia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Patagobia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Patagobia</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="4" pageNumber="73" type="biology and distribution">
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="73">Biology and distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="73">
Data on the biology of
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" genus="Andesobia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Andesobia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Andesobia</taxonomicName>
is based primarily on
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" genus="Andesobia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Andesobia jelskii" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="jelskii">Andesobia jelskii</taxonomicName>
and is discussed in more detail under the species account below.
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" genus="Andesobia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Andesobia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Andesobia</taxonomicName>
is adapted to cold-temperate alpine habitats, males flying during sunny periods and the females being micropterous. Mating and oviposition occurs inside the female cocoon. The female-biased sex ratio of the broods reared during this study may indicate that females are capable of parthenogensis, as in some other cold-adapted flightless
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Malvaceae" genus="Lepidoptera" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Lepidoptera" order="Malvales" pageId="4" pageNumber="73" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="genus">Lepidoptera</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation author="Suomalainen, E" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="12" pageNumber="81" url="doi: 10.1146/annurev.en.07.010162.002025" year="1962">Suomalainen 1962</bibRefCitation>
). Adults emerge during the middle of the four-month wet season in the otherwise xeric grassland habitat.
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Erebidae" genus="Andesobia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Andesobia" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="4" pageNumber="73" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Andesobia</taxonomicName>
is endemic to the Puna grasslands of the high Andes, occuring from central Peru south to the Lake Titicaca region of southern Peru/Bolivia.
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