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leeae
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material.
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female. (
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):
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,
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,
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,
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,
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, 7700',
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.
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leg.
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in the private collection of
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, to be deposited in the
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for
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and
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DNA sequence in the BOLD
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of life data system (
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).
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<emphasis box="[185,315,976,1002]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="22" reason="1">Etymology</emphasis>
.
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Known from a singularly unique female festooned in pink, this species is named after the authors wife, Lee Fulmer.
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<emphasis box="[185,307,1046,1072]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="22" reason="1">Diagnosis</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
While superficially similar to
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<emphasis box="[677,770,1047,1072]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="22">L. atara</emphasis>
(Smith)
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(
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) in maculation,
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<emphasis box="[202,384,1082,1108]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="22">Lithophane leeae</emphasis>
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is the largest known species in the genus
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.
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Although
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<emphasis box="[140,322,1117,1143]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="22">Lithophane leeae</emphasis>
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keys out to
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<emphasis box="[463,479,1118,1143]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="22">L</emphasis>
.
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in the key of
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, it clearly differs from
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in being a significantly larger species (forewing length
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vs.
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), with more extensive and brighter pink on the dorsal surface of the hindwing (
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) and on both wings on the ventral surface (
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). While the male is presently undescribed, male specimens should be easily recognized once found given the distinct appearance and barcode of
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<emphasis box="[583,665,1293,1319]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="22">L. leeae</emphasis>
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.
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. Female
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(
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: unknown). A large species with extensive pink suffusion on the dorsal hind wing and both wings on the ventral surface.
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forewing ground color gray brown, with a large reniform spot almost touching the orbicular spot. There is a deep zigzag in antemedial (am) and postmedial (pm) lines into median area fold where am and pm lines are connected by a thick black dash. Similar but thinner dashes occur from medial dash to subterminal (st) line, from lower margin of reniform spot to
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, and at wing base. Subterminal line deeply zigzagged. Basal two-thirds of hindwing heavily suffused with pink, with a light brown on outer third. Discal lunule prominent and brown.
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ground color heavily suffused with pink on basal two-thirds of both fore- and hindwing. Reniform spot and discal
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[140,269,1590,1612]" pageId="2" pageNumber="23">Figures 1-3.</emphasis>
Adults of
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species.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[545,589,1590,1612]" pageId="2" pageNumber="23">1, 2.</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[594,660,1590,1612]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="23">L. leeae</emphasis>
Walsh
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,
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.
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,
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, Cochise County, Chiricahua Mountains, Onion Saddle, 7700',
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.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[762,782,1622,1644]" pageId="2" pageNumber="23">3.</emphasis>
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<emphasis box="[798,871,1623,1644]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="23">L. atara</emphasis>
(Smith)
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,
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, B. C., Summerland,
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.
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[140,239,464,486]" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">Figure 4.</emphasis>
DNA phenogram of the
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species-group, based on the Neighbor-Joining reconstruction method with the Kimura 2-parameter (K2P) algorithm implemented in BOLD (
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). Compare with the more extensive phenogram of the entire genus in the preceding paper by
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.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph blockId="3.[140,1108,659,932]" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">
lunule dark brown and prominent.
<emphasis bold="true" box="[542,659,659,685]" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">Abdomen</emphasis>
pink lateral tufts of hair at distal end. Differs from
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<emphasis box="[284,371,695,720]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">L. atara</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
in its much larger size (25.0 versus 18.0 mm forewing length in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">L. atara</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
) and extensive bright pink suffusion on dorsal hindwing and very extensive pink suffusion on fore- and hindwings ventrally.
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</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="3" pageNumber="24" type="biology_ecology">
<paragraph blockId="3.[140,1108,659,932]" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">
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<emphasis box="[185,278,800,826]" inLineHeading="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="24" reason="1">Biology</emphasis>
and Distribution.
</emphasis>
The only known specimen was collected in mid-June at 7700 elevation in the Chiricahua Mountains,
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. Attracted to mercury-vapor lights. Based on its phylogenetic position and biology of other
<emphasis box="[850,986,871,897]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">Lithophanae</emphasis>
,
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<emphasis box="[1001,1083,871,897]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="24">L. leeae</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is most likely a pine-feeder and probably hibernates as an adult, flying in early spring.
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</treatment>
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