Hypatopa vitis Adamski

Adamski, David, 2013, Review of the Blastobasinae of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Blastobasidae), Zootaxa 3618 (1), pp. 1-223 : 143-144

Hypatopa vitis Adamski , new species

( Figs. 273 , 408 , Map 51)

Diagnosis.— Hypatopa vitis can be distinguished from other Hypatopa by having a pale-brown ground color of the forewing with faint markings.

Description.—Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus pale brown. Outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with pale-brown scales along apical margins of segments 1–2, inner surface paler. Antennal scape pale brown intermixed with few brown scales, pecten pale brown, flagellum brown basally gradually brightening apically. Proboscis pale brown.

Thorax: Tegula with basal 1/3 brown, apical 2/3 pale brown; mesonotum with basal 1/5 brown, apical 4/5 pale brown. Legs brown intermixed with pale-brown scales near midsegments and along apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing ( Fig. 408 ): Length 6.5 mm (n = 1), pale brown intermixed with brownish-orange scales and few brown scales; submedian fascia faint, incomplete; cell with three faint spots, one near middle, two on apical end along crossvein; marginal spots faint. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Translucent pale brown gradually darkening to apex.

Abdomen: Male genitalia: Unknown. Female Genitalia ( Fig. 273 ): Apophyses posteriores 2 1/ 2X longer than apophyses anteriores. Ostium bursae within sparse microtrichiate membrane posterior to seventh segment; inception of ductus seminalis slightly posterior to anterior margin of seventh sternum; eighth tergum with darkly pigmented mesial longitudinal streak. Posterior margin of seventh sternum straight. Ductus bursae 2X longer than apophyses posteriores, spinulate on anterior 1/4. Corpus bursae ovoid, spinulate; signum, small, spinate, arising from rounded base.

Holotype, Ƥ, “Est[ación] Cacao, 2 km SW del Cerro Cacao, Prov[incia] Guana[caste], COSTA RICA, 1000–1200 m, Feb[rero] 1995, E. Phillips, L-N- 323100, 375800, # 5448, “INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI002, 212765 [barcode label], “INBio, Ƥ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 4522 [yellow label].

Distribution (Map 51): Hypatopa vitis is known from one collecting site on the western most part of the Cordillera de Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica.

Etymology. The specific epithet vitis is derived from Latin meaning, a centurion's staff made of a branch of a vine.

Figures

FIGURES 272 – 273. Female genitalia of Blastobasinae. 272, Hypatopa gena (Slide 2710). 273, Hypatopa vitis (Slide 4522).

FIGURES 408 – 411. Imagos of Blastobasinae. 408, Hypatopa vitis, holotype. 409, Pigritia sedis, holotype. 410, Pigritia dido, holotype. 411, Pigritia faux, holotype.