Acalyptris yucatani Remeikis & Stonis
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3609.2.8 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DC289CDF-6B9B-4E4F-ACA1-9410CE3B9BA8 |
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DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6156425 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3D148D95-F59E-4E75-943E-A5D7ECF2AB93 |
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lsid:zoobank.org:act:3D148D95-F59E-4E75-943E-A5D7ECF2AB93 |
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Plazi |
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scientific name |
Acalyptris yucatani Remeikis & Stonis |
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sp. nov. |
Acalyptris yucatani Remeikis & Stonis View in CoL , sp. nov.
( Figs 11–15, 17 View FIGURES 11 – 14 View FIGURES 15 – 19 )
Type material. Holotype: Ƥ, MEXICO, Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Tulum, 20°12'35"N, 87°25'55"W, elevation 15 m, mining larva 29.xi.2011, ex pupa 14.xii.2011, leg. A. Remeikis & J. R. Stonis, gen. slide no. RA 468Ƥ (currently deposited in LEUS, with further re-deposition at ZMUC).
Diagnosis. Externally, the new species can be distinguished from most Acalyptris species, including Neotropical ones, by the presence of two white spots (costal and tornal) on the speckled forewing. In female genitalia it differs from all known Neotropical Acalyptris species by a combination of specialized large asymmetrical signae and a vestibulum without distinct sclerites.
Male. Unknown.
Female ( Fig. 11 View FIGURES 11 – 14 ). Forewing length 1.65 mm, wingspan 3.63 mm (n=1). Head: palpi brownish cream; frontal tuft cream, on vertex dark brown; collar whitish cream, comprising piliform scales; scape white; antenna with ca. 25 segments, slightly shorter than half forewing; flagellum dark grey on upper side, pale grey on underside. Thorax, tegulae and forewings cream-white, speckled with blackish brown tipped scales. Forewing with two cream-white oblique spots: costal and tornal; cilia grey; underside of forewing brownish cream, grey-brown distally and along costa. Hindwings grey (at certain angle of view may look pale grey) on upper side and underside; cilia of hindwings grey. Legs cream, with blackish darkening on upper side; forelegs darkened on both sides.
Female genitalia ( Figs 12–14 View FIGURES 11 – 14 ). Total length 565 mm (n=1). Vestibulum narrow, folded, without shaped sclerites. Corpus bursae oval, with very large, distinctly asymmetrical signae (245 and 350 mm) (n=1) ( Figs 13–14 View FIGURES 11 – 14 ).
Bionomics. Mines in leaves ( Fig. 17 View FIGURES 15 – 19 ). Host-plant: Schinus sp. ( Anacardiaceae ) ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 15 – 19 ). Egg on upper side of the leaf. Larvae mine in late November and early December. Sinuous gallery of mine filled with dark green to blackish or black frass ( Fig. 17 View FIGURES 15 – 19 ). Larva yellow, with dark green intestine. Larval exit slit on upper side of the leaf. Cocoon very pale ochre-brown; length 1.65 mm, maximal width 1.1 mm (n=1). The single adult emerged in December.
Distribution ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1 – 5 ). It occurs in the lowland coastal forest of Yucatán (SE Mexico: Quintana Roo) ( Fig. 15 View FIGURES 15 – 19 ).
Etymology. This species is named after the Yucatán Peninsula.
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