Dolecta dostoevskyi 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 : 91

6. Dolecta dostoevskyi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev sp. nov.

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Material examined. Holotype ♂: Venezuela, Bolivar, Gran Sabana, Sierra Pacaraima, Rio Surukun , 4°36.60′ N / 61°25.77′ W, ca. 950m, 21−23.08.08, leg. F. & Th. Greifenstein (GenPr- Heterocera MWM 28.498 ) ( MWM).

Description. Male. Length of fore wing 16 mm. Fore wing relatively short, semicircular, light-brown with dense reticulated pattern of dark-brown undulated lines throughout all wing. Hind wing grey with poorly expressed reticulated pattern of dark-brown undulated lines throughout all wing, fringe brown unicolorous.

Male genitalia. Uncus large, completely split into two parts by deep bifurcation; gnathos arms very short, thin; valve very short, with smooth costal and abdominal edges, wide semicircular outer edge; juxta robust, scaphoid with long spiky abdominal process; saccus cylindrical, apically semicircular; phallus equal to valve in length.

Female. Unknown.

Diagnosis. The new species clearly differs from the other known species by its very short valve with smooth edges.

Distribution. Venezuela.

Etymology. The new species is named after the Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and journalist Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky.

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Figures 10−20. Dolecta, adults: 10. D. dostoevskyi sp. nov., male, holotype, Venezuela, Bolivar, Gran Sabana, Sierra Pacaraima, Rio Surukun (MWM); 11. D. egipan (Dognin, 1923) comb. nov., male, holotype, Brasil (USNM); 12. D. esenini sp. nov., male, holotype, Guyane Française, Piste de Kaw (MNHN); 13. D. gertseni sp. nov., male, paratype, Ecuador, Morona Santiago prov., San Carlos de Limon (MWM); 14. D. gogoli sp. nov., male, holotype, Ecuador, Morona Santiago prov., San Carlos de Limon (MWM); 15. D. juturna Schaus, 1892, male, holotype, Rio Janeiro (USNM); 16. D. juturna Schaus, 1892, female, Brasilien, Santa Catarina, S. Bento do Sul, Sierra Rio Natal (MWM); 17. D. karamzini sp. nov., male, holotype, Peru, San Martin reg. San Martin prov. (RYB, later to be deposited in ZISP); 18. D. lermontovi sp. nov., male, holotype, Colombia, Santander, road Duitama-Charala (MWM); 19. D. macrochir Schaus, 1892, female, holotype, Rio Janeiro (USNM); 20. D. macrochir Schaus, 1892, male, Brasilien, Santa Catarina, S. Bento do Sul, Serra Rio Natal (MWM).