Laberlia apusorum Yakovlev, Naydenov, Penco, 2020

Yakovlev, Roman V., Naydenov, Artem E. & Penco, Fernando C., 2020, New data on Neotropical Carpenter Moths of Subfamily Hypoptinae Neumoegen & Dyar, 1894 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). III. Laberlia - a new genus from Northern and Central Andean Mountains, Ecologica Montenegrina 38, pp. 18-24 : 22-23

3. Laberlia apusorum Yakovlev, Naydenov, Penco sp. nov.

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Material examined. Holotype (♂), Peru, La Libertad, Pataz prov. , S of Tayabamba, 3840 m, 08°23.18 ' S 77°16.39 ' W, 17.XII.2016, leg. V. Sinjaev (Genital preparation №331 coll. Naydenov A.E.) ( ZISP).

Description. Length of fore wing 21 mm. Fore wing short, light-grey, with bright contrast light-brown pattern: row of round dots along costal edge, two big spots at root area, two elongated transverse spots postdiscally (in radial and cubital areas), torn wide hourglass-shaped band submarginally. Hind wing white, semi-transparent, with small round brown spot in medial-basal area, brown stroke along costal edge, grey longitudinal stroke between Sc and Rs. Fringe on all wings mottled, light-brown at veins, light-yellow between veins.

Male genitalia. Uncus long, basally robust, clavately extended in distal third, apically sharp; tegumen robust; gnathos arms not fused, of medium length, gradually narrowing to apex; valve large, apically semicircular; costal edge basally with large long harpe (1/5 longer than uncus) gradually narrowing from base to apex; juxta scaphoid, with pair of short thin lateral processes; saccus small, tapered, phallus shorter than valve, thin, strongly curved in medium third, vesica aperture in dorso-apical position, about ¼ of phallus in length, vesica without cornuti.

Female genitalia. Unknown.

Diagnosis. The new species clearly differs externally from both known species of the genus in the smaller size and in the short fore wing with a bright contrast pattern; in the genital structure it is distinguished in the longer harpe and more curved phallus.

Distribution. Peru (La Libertad).

Etymology. Apus (in the religion and mythology of Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia) are the spirits of the mountains and sometimes solitary rocks and caves, that protect the local people in the highlands.

Figures

Figures 1−4. Laberlia, adults: 1. L. bellaria (Dognin, 1911) comb. nov., male, holotype, Colombia, Quindío Department, Páramo, 3800 m (USNM); 2. L. bellaria (Dognin, 1911) comb. nov., male, Colombia, Tolima, Cerro Bravo, La Libia, 5°06′21"N 75°16′22"W, 3000 m, 03-04.XI.2015 (RYB); 3. L. illapai sp. nov., male, holotype, Ecuador, Morona Santiago, 55 km Road Rio Bamba-Macas, 2°11'04"S 78°29'51"W, 3470 m, 24.III.2012 (ZISP); 4. L. apusorum sp. nov., male, holotype, Peru, La Libertad, Pataz prov., S of Tayabamba, 3840 m, 08°23.18'S 77°16.39'W, 17.XII.2016 (ZISP).

Figures 5−7. Laberlia, male genitalia: 5. L. bellaria (Dognin, 1911) comb. nov., male, Colombia, Tolima, Cerro Bravo, La Libia, 5°06′21"N 75°16′22"W, 3000 m, 03-04.XI.2015 (Genital preparation №142 coll. Naydenov A.E.) (RYB); 6. L. illapai sp. nov., male, holotype, Ecuador, Morona Santiago, 55 km Road Rio Bamba-Macas, 2°11'04"S 78°29'51"W, 3470 m, 24.III.2012 (Genital preparation №321 coll. Naydenov A.E.) (ZISP); 7. L. apusorum sp. nov., male, holotype, Peru, La Libertad, Pataz prov., S of Tayabamba, 3840 m, 08°23.18'S 77°16.39'W, 17.XII.2016 (Genital preparation №331 coll. Naydenov A.E.) (ZISP).

Figure 8. Map of Laberlia species distribution.