Anopinella albolinea 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 : 28

Anopinella albolinea Brown and Adamski , new species

Figs. 16 , 65

Diagnosis. Anopinella albolinea is a moderate­sized species with the forewing veins lightly marked in white and with a long, slender white dash in the dark triangular costal blotch of the forewing replacing the typical small rounded or ovoid white spot characteristic of nearly all other species. The male genitalia can be distinguished from all other species by the presence of two pairs of broad, non­dentate flanges from each arm of the gnathos.

Description. Head: Frontoclypeus white intermixed with pale orange, vertex pale yellow; labial palpus with outer surface pale brown intermixed with reddish brown and pale yellow, inner surface white. Antenna with scape brown intermixed with dark brown; basal 8­10 flagellomeres reddish brown intermixed with brown; distal flagellomeres gray.

Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum pale yellow. Forewing (Fig. 65) length 8.0 mm (n = 1); basal one­sixth, costal blotch, and subterminal crescent­shaped band all concolorous, brown intermixed with dark olive; each area delimited by an oblique pale band of white with orange­brown overscaling extending from costa, ca. 0.25 distance from base to apex, toward dorsum, abruptly angled near dorsum, extending to costa ca. 0.75 distance from base to apex, then extending through subterminal region to dorsum, encircling a crescentshaped subterminal band; forewing veins lightly marked in white; costal blotch subtriangular, with slender white dash near the vertex replacing typical white spot; area between CuP and posterior margin brown intermixed with reddish brown and white; apical and submarginal areas brown intermixed with orange brown. Fringe mostly white intermixed with some grayish. Hindwing dark gray.

Abdomen: Male genitalia ( Fig. 16 ; drawn from USNM slide 94070; n = 1) with uncus curved near apical middle, slightly attenuate distally. Socius digitate, ca. 0.33 length of basal portion of gnathos arms. Gnathos arms non­dentate, pendant, each with a distally free, weakly incurved, sclerotized flange; a second narrow triangular flange from posterior edge near middle of each arm. Valva narrow, slightly expanded from subbasal curve, densely setose from outer margin of cucullus to basal ridge; outer margin weakly rounded; apicoventral angle slightly rounded. Phallus simple; vesica microtrichiate. Female unknown.

Holotype, ɗ, Costa Rica , Puntarenas Province, Alturas de Cotón, 1500 m, 15 Sep 1999, V. Becker. Deposited in VBC.

Etymology. The species name refers to the white line in the discal cell of the forewing.

Figures

FIGURES 15 ­ 16. Male genitalia of Anopinella, valvae spread, aedeagus removed. 15, A. transecta; 16, A. albolinea.