Chamaepsichia cetonia, Razowski, Józef, 2011

Razowski, Józef, 2011, Descriptions of five new species of the Neotropical Mictopsichia group of genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), Zootaxa 3058, pp. 63-68 : 67-68

Chamaepsichia cetonia sp. n.

Figs. 5, 6 , 12

Diagnosis. Chamaepsichia cetonia is very similar to and closely related to C. durranti (Walsingham, 1914) from Para, Brazil, but C. cetonia has a slender, longer uncus that is only slightly expanded terminally, and a broader terminal process of the sacculus.

Description. Head: Black; labial palpus black, length ca. 1 times diameter of compound eye; antenna with scape and pedicel black, flagellum cream brown. Thorax: Brownish, tegula orange posteriorly. Forewing length 8.5–10.0 mm (n = 2); ground colour of forewing orange, more reddish basally, more yellow terminally; reticulation dense, brownish grey; refractive pattern distinct; blackish blotch at mid-costa weak. Fringe brownish, white before apex as in related species. Hindwing orange with blackish brown markings: short apical line, long subapical line, one or two dots before the latter medially. Fringe pale orange, tinged brownish at apex, with black-brown basal line reaching vein CuA1. Abdomen: Male genitalia ( Figs. 5, 6 ) with uncus slender, only slightly broadening terminally; terminal process of sacculus elongate-triangular; edges of basal cavity well sclerotized; area of strong spines at ventral angle of sacculus elongate; transtilla as in congeners; aedeagus slender with short postzonal part, folded plate of vesica, and long coecum penis. Female unknown.

Holotype male. Costa Rica: Heredia Province: 11 km ESE La Virgen, 250–350 m, 10°21'N 84°03' W, 10 April 2004, D. R. Davis; GS USNM 137,0 92. Paratypes (two males): Same data as holotype, except 7 April 2004 ( GS USNM 85,861) and 10 April 2004.

Etymology. The name refers to the metallic markings of the forewing, from the Latin “ cetonia .”

Remarks. In addition to the type series, there is a male from Cayuga, Guatemala (USNM) which differs from the holotype by having a slightly more expanded terminal part of the uncus, and a female from San Lorenzo, Panama (USNM), which is characterized by the absence of a signum. Although possibly conspecific with the holotype, these specimens are excluded from the type series.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. Male and female genitalia. 1, 2. Mictopsichia misahaullia sp. n., holotype. 3, 4. Rubropsichia kartaboana sp. n., holotype. 5, 6. Chamaepsichia cetonia sp. n., holotype. 7. Mictopsichia chirripoana sp. n., holotype. 8. Chamaepsichia chitonregis sp. n., holotype.

FIGURES 9 – 13. Adults. 9. Mictopsichia misahaullia sp. n., holotype. 10. Mictopsichia chirripoana sp. n., holotype. 11. Rubropsichia kartaboana sp. n., holotype. 12. Chamaepsichia cetonia sp. n., holotype. 13. Chamaepsichia chitonregis sp. n., holotype.