Hemaris tenuis Grote, 1873: 4

Schmidt, B. Christian, 2018, Cryptic species among bumblebee mimics: an unrecognized Hemaris hawkmoth (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) in eastern North America, Zootaxa 4399 (1) : -

= Hemaris tenuis Grote, 1873: 4 , pl. 1, fig. 6.

TYPE lOCAlITY: “WEST FARmS, N.Y. ANd BERKS CO., PENNSYlVANIA ” [ HERE RESTRICTEd TO WEST FARmS, BRONX CO., NEW YORK] [ FMNH] .

GROTE dESCRIbEd tenuis fROm AN UNSPECIfIEd NUmbER Of SYNTYPES, bUT AT lEAST TWO SPECImENS WERE EXAmINEd bY HIm AS THE SPECImEN SOURCE IS gIVEN AS WEST FARmS [ BRONX CO.], NEW YORK ANd BERKS COUNTY PENNSYlVANIA . AlTHOUgH NOT CURRENTlY KNOWN TO OCCUR THERE, THE SPECIES HERE RECOgNIZEd AS aethra COUld EVENTUAllY bE fOUNd IN BERKS COUNTY, PA, SO THERE IS A POSSIbIlITY THAT GROTE’S SYNTYPES INClUdEd THIS SPECIES . THE fOllOWINg fEmAlE SPECImEN IN FMNH WAS EXAmINEd, ANd IS THEREfORE dESIgNATEd AS lectotype:

“ Hemaris / tenuis / GROTE / TYPE.”; M. Tenuis / GROTE / W. FARmS N.Y. / ORIg. / TYPE / J. ANgUS”; “WEST FARmS / N.Y.”; “FMNH-INS / 0 0 0 0 0 95 046”; “ Macroglossa tenuis / GROTE / PA., BERKS CO.” STRECKER COllN. 25486 / FIEld MUSEUm NAT. HIST.”; “ LEPIdOPTERA TYPE / PHOTOgRAPH NO. 173 / FIEld MUSEUm”; “PHOTOGRAPHED / AllIE STONE STONE 2012 / KE EMU CATAlOg”. THE fOllOWINg REd lAbEl WIll bE AddEd: “LECTOTYPE / Hemaris tenuis / GROTE, 1873 / B.C. SCHmIdT 2018”.

THE SPECImEN IS IN mOdERATE CONdITION, WITH THE lEfT ANTENNA glUEd ON, ANd THE RIgHT HINdWINg CHIPPEd AT THE ANAl ANglE. THE TYPE lOCAlITY IS THEREfORE RESTRICTEd TO WEST FARmS, BRONX CO., NEW YORK. GAll & HAWKS (2002: 249) STATE THAT NOT All SPECImENS fROm J. ANgUS Of WEST FARmS, NEW YORK WERE ACTUAllY COllECTEd THERE, bUT WITHOUT EVIdENCE TO THE CONTRARY, THE lOCAlITY IS HERE mAINTAINEd AS THE TYPE lOCAlITY. THE tenuis lECTOTYPE IS COmPARATIVElY SmAll (WINgSPAN 41 mm), WITH THE NARROW, EVEN-bORdEREd fOREWINg mARgIN (INdICATEd bY THE NAmE tenuis ) Of THE SPRINg bROOd, ANd NEARlY COmPlETElY dARK SEgmENTS 4 ANd 5, All CONSISTENT WITH SPRINg bROOd diffinis AS OPPOSEd TO aethra .