Dolecta akhmatovae 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 : 84

1. Dolecta akhmatovae Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev sp. nov.

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Material examined. Holotype ♂: Brasilien, Esp. Santo, Santa Leopoldina, Biriricas , ca. 700 m, 20.3−20.4.97, 1997, leg. H. Thöny (GenPr- Heterocera MWM 36.994 ) ( MWM).

Description. Male. Length of fore wing 16.5 mm. Fore wing light-brown with dark-brown wide bands in root and discal areas of wing, big round dark-brown spot postdiscally (at base of medial veins), semicircular dark-brown spots along outer edge of wing and fine, colour of coffee with milk, reticulated pattern throughout all wing, fringe mottled – dark-brown at veins (in thick bundles) and light-brown between veins. Hind wing colour coffee with milk, light-brown round spots postdiscally, semicircular dark-brown spots along outer margin of wing, fine brown reticulated pattern throughout all wing, fringe dark-brown at veins (in thick bundles), light-brown between veins.

Male genitalia. Uncus massive, split into two parts by deep semicircular cut, halves of uncus diverged to sides, slightly widened apically; gnathos arms thin, ribbon-like, short; valve relatively short, apically wide semicircular, costal edge of valve with small notch on border between basal and medium thirds, abdominal edge slightly curved evenly; juxta massive scaphoid, with cylindrical abdominal process; saccus tiny, cylindrical; phallus short, evenly sharpened to apex.

Female. Unknown.

Diagnosis. The new species differs well from the other known species of the genus in a series of characters:

- the hind wing is much lighter than fore wing;

- the valve has slightly curved edges and a wide semicircular apex.

Distribution. Brazil, Esp. Santo, Santa Leopoldina.

Etymology. The new species is named after one of the most significant Russian poets of the 20th century Anna Andreyevna Akhmatova.

Figures

Figures 1−9. Dolecta, adults: 1. D. akhmatovae sp. nov., male, holotype, Brasilien, Esp. Santo, Santa Leopoldina, Biriricas (MWM); 2. D. amanosa (Schaus, 1911) comb. nov., male, holotype, Tuis, C.R. (USNM); 3. D. aroa (Schaus, 1894) comb. nov., male, holotype, Aroa, Venezuela (USNM); 4. D. aroa (Schaus, 1894) comb. nov., male, Ecuador, Esmeraldes prov., 3.2 km E Mompiche (MWM); 5. D. aroa (Schaus, 1894) comb. nov., male, Brasil, Bahia, env. Camacan (SB) (MWM); 6. D. aroa (Schaus, 1894) comb. nov., male, NW Argentina, Jujuy Prov., 10 km SEE Caimancito (RYB); 7. D. aroa (Schaus, 1894) comb. nov., female, Brasil, Bahia, env. Camacan (MWM); 8. D. bulgakovi sp. nov., male, holotype, Guyane Franc., Saül (MNHN); 9. D. chekhovi sp. nov., male, holotype, Peru, prov. Huánuco, Yuyapichis, ACP Panguana (MWM).