Hypatopa scobis Adamski

Adamski, David, 2013, Review of the Blastobasinae of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Blastobasidae), Zootaxa 3618 (1), pp. 1-223 : 104-106

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3618.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B548B139-E8D9-4F10-956E-E0001E6C7586

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6147526

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/985F879D-DF05-724A-C2DD-F94FFDDB744F

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scientific name

Hypatopa scobis Adamski
status

sp. nov.

Hypatopa scobis Adamski View in CoL , new species

( Figs. 35 View FIGURES 31 – 40 , 177–178 View FIGURES 177 – 182 , 375 View FIGURES 368 – 375 , Map 35)

Diagnosis.— Hypatopa scobis is similar to H. lucina and H. agnae in facies but differs from them by having a more shallowly serrate margin of the proximal flange of the valva. H. scobis also has a proximal flange bearing an erect spine on dorsolateral margin; a moderately curved base to the sclerite of the phallus; a nearly straight phallus with a bulbous base; and an anellus with a rounded apex, setose on apical 1/2 that are lacking in H. lucina and H. agnae .

Description.—Head: Scales on vertex and frontoclypeus grayish brown tipped with pale grayish brown. Outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with pale-brown scales along apical margin of segment 2 or pale brown intermixed with few brown scales; inner surface pale brown intermixed with few brown scales. Antennal scape grayish brown intermixed with few pale grayish-brown scales, pecten grayish brown, flagellum gray. Proboscis pale brown.

MAP 35. Distribution of Hypatopa scobis (●) and H. agnae (˔).

Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brown. Legs brown intermixed with pale-brown scales near midsegments and apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing ( Fig. 375 View FIGURES 368 – 375 ): Length 4.2–4.9 mm (n = 7), pale brown intermixed with few brown scales; cell with three faint spots, one near middle, two on apical end along crossvein. Undersurface brown. Venation ( Fig. 35 View FIGURES 31 – 40 ) with cubital veins divergent from bases; CuA1 about 1/3 longer than CuA2; CuA2 broadly curved. Hindwing: Translucent pale brown. Venation ( Fig. 35 View FIGURES 31 – 40 ) with cubitus 4-branched; M2 arising from a point about 1/2 distance between distoposterior part of cell and branching point of M3 and CuA1.

Abdomen: Male genitalia ( Figs. 177–178 View FIGURES 177 – 182 ): Uncus gradually narrowed from widened base, constricted broadly near middle, widened apically, forming slightly widened apical part, nearly straight, sparsely setose, longer than width of anal opening. Gnathos narrow, ventroposterior emarginate mesially. Sockets of tergal setae not extending beyond midlength of tegumen. Valva divided; ventral part slightly projected inwardly, gradually widening to midlength, narrowing apically, forming large, inwardly curved apical process; process setose on outer surface, slightly concave on inner margin; ventral margin slightly upturned beyond middle, forming narrow fold to near small setose lobe at base of apical process; dorsal part with apical portion of costa extending dorsolaterally, forming setose digitate process; basal ridge of digitate process extending ventrally fusing with dorsolateral ridge of proximal flange; flange slightly ellipsoid, sparsely microtrichiate on dorsal 1/2, densely setose on ventral 1/2; margin irregularly serrate, bearing erect spine on dorsolateral margin. Juxta bandlike. Vinculum semicircular. Phallus and sclerite of phallus longer than valva; phallus bulbous basally, sclerite of phallus sigmoid-shaped; anellus gradually narrowed from widened base, narrowly rounded apically, setose on apical 1/2. Female Genitalia: Unknown.

Holotype, 3, “Est[ación] Cacao, 1000–1400 m, Lado SO Vol[can] Cacao, P[arque] N[acional] Guan[acaste], Prov[incia] Guanacaste, COSTA RICA, F. Araya, 21 a 29 May. 1992, L-N-323300, 375700, “INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI000, 426076 [barcode label], “INBio, 3 Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 2277 [yellow label].

Paratypes (6 3): 1 3, same data as for holotype except, “D. Brenes, “CRI000, 488013, “Slide No. 2314; 2 3, “C. Chaves, 25 Set.-11 Oct. 1990, “CRI000, 390151, “Slide No. 2165, “USNM 83974; “CRI000, 590769, “Slide No. 2178, “USNM 83975; 2 3, 23 Oct.- 9 Nov., “CRI000, 576598, “Slide No. 2188, “USNM 83976; “CRI000, 316067, “Slide No. 2196, “Wing Slide No. 7002; 1 3, “F.A. Quesada, Jun. 1991, “CRI000, 613327, “Slide No. 2253 [3 in INBio, 3 in USNM].

Distribution (Map 35). Hypatopa scobis is known from one collecting site in northwestern Costa Rica on the western most part of the Cordillera de Guanacaste.

Etymology. The specific epithet scobis is derived from the Latin meaning, that which is scraped or scratched off, i.e., filings, shavings, or sawdust.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Blastobasidae

Genus

Hypatopa

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