Dolecta amanosa ( Schaus, 1911 ) Naydenov & Yakovlev & Penco & Sinyaev, 2020

Naydenov, Artem E., Yakovlev, Roman V., Penco, Fernando C. & Sinyaev, Victor V., 2020, New data on Neotropical Carpenter-Moths of Subfamily Hypoptinae Neumoegen & Dyar, 1894 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). II. A review of the genus Dolecta Herrich-Schäffer, [1854], with description of seventeen new species, Ecologica Montenegrina 35, pp. 82-114 : 85-86

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.37828/em.2020.35.7
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treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Dolecta amanosa ( Schaus, 1911 )
status	comb. nov.

Treatment

2. Dolecta amanosa ( Schaus, 1911) comb. n.

Figs 2 View Figures 1−9 , 34, 65

Givira amanosa Schaus, 1911: 629−630 View in CoL

Type locality: C.[osta] R.[ica], [Cartago Province, Turrialba Canton], Tuis [9.840193°N / 83.5608858°W]. Type material (holotype) in USNM, examined GoogleMaps .

Material examined. Holotype ♂: Tuis, C.R., May 28− June 4 (Genitalia Slide By P. Gentili 1988, USNM 85.171 About USNM ) ( USNM).

Redescription. Male. Length of fore wing 22 mm. Fore wing light-brown with semicircular dark-brown spots and light (milk and coffee colour) reticulated pattern throughout all wing, by its contrast resembling chess board, fringe mottled, dark-brown at veins, (in thick bundles), light-brown between veins. Hind wing brown with wide dark-brown band postdiscally (smoothly narrowing from fore edge to hind edge), semicircular dark-brown spots along outer edge of wing, fine brown reticulated pattern throughout all wing, fringe mottled, dark-brown at veins (in thick bundles), light-brown between veins.

Male genitalia. Uncus massive, long, split into two parts by deep semicircular cut, halves of uncus diverged to sides, slightly widened apically, apices with small prongs diverged to sides; gnathos arms thin, ribbon-like, short; valve with wide almost even outer edge, costal and abdominal edges of valve slightly curved along all length; juxta massive, scaphoid, with cylindrical abdominal process tapered apically; saccus tiny, cylindrical, apically clavate; phallus short, apically tapered smoothly.

Female unknown.

Diagnosis. The species clearly differs from other species of the genus in its very contrast brown colouring, almost even outer edge of the valve and the apically clavate saccus.

Distribution. Costa Rica.