Anopinella rica Brown and Adamski

Brown, John W. & Adamski, David, 2003, Systematic revision of Anopinella Powell (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Euliini) and phylogenetic analysis of the Apolychrosis group of genera, Zootaxa 200, pp. 1-94 : 46-47

Anopinella rica Brown and Adamski , new species

Figs. 54 , 89

Diagnosis. Anopinella rica is known only from females. It is a relatively small species, superficially similar to A. triquetra . It can be distinguished from all other congeners for which females are known by the unusual configuration of the eighth tergum, with two subtriangular flanges separated by a deep median longitudinal cleft, which may represent an autapomorphy for A. rica .

Description. Head: Frontoclypeus and vertex white; labial palpus with outer surface white with few brown scales, inner surface white. Antenna with scape white with few brown scales; basal 6­8 flagellomeres reddish brown; distal flagellomeres grayish brown.

Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum white intermixed with reddish brown and brown laterally. Forewing (Fig. 89) length 7.0­ 8.1 mm (mean = 7.7; n = 3); basal fascia pale brown intermixed with reddish brown and white, costal blotch dark reddish brown, intermixed with brown and reddish brown; basal fascia and costal blotch separated by a pale band of white intermixed with few pale brown and pale reddish brown scales, slightly widened at costa, gradually narrowing to posterior part of costal blotch; band wide distally, recurved from distal costa through subapical area to tornus, entirely encircling an elliptical ocellus, except for posterior end; ocellus pale gray; costal blotch with small white spot near posterior end; area between CuP and posterior margin reddish brown or yellowish brown; apical forewing white intermixed with few brown scales; submarginal area reddish brown alternating with gray. Fringe alternating reddish brown and gray. Hindwing brownish gray.

Abdomen: Male unknown. Female genitalia ( Fig. 54 ; drawn from USNM slide 69241; n = 3) with elliptical sclerotized patch at lamella postvaginalis; eighth tergum with two subtriangular lobes separated by a median longitudinal cleft; ostium U­shaped, ca. 0.33 width of seventh sternum at widest point. Ductus bursae long, slender, inception of accessory bursa ca. 0.6 distance from ostium to corpus bursae. Corpus bursae large, subspherical, with dense patch of spicules on inner 0.25 surrounding inception of ductus seminalis.

Holotype, Ψ, Costa Rica , Cartago Province, Juan Viñas, Aug [no year], W. Schaus. Deposited in USNM.

Paratypes (2Ψ). COSTA RICA : Cartago Province: Juan Viñas, May [no year] (1Ψ), (USNM). EL SALVADOR: 3.6 mi W Santa Tecia, 30 Jun 1966 (1Ψ), Flint & Ortiz (USNM).

Etymology. The specific epithet is derived from the country, Costa Rica .

Figures

FIGURES 54 ­ 55. Female genitalia of Anopinella, posterior end up. 54, A. rica; 55, A. styraxivora.