Givira cinnamonea, Naydenov & Yakovlev & Penco, 2024

Naydenov, Artem E., Yakovlev, Roman V. & Penco, Fernando C., 2024, Review of Givira Walker, 1856 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae: Hypoptinae) with description of a new species, Zootaxa 5506 (4), pp. 567-576 : 569-570

Givira cinnamonea sp. nov.

urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:AC5FD4AD-76D0-4F05-937D-00459BE51A56

Figs 1 , 8 , 13

Type material. Holotype: ♂, Brazil: Minas Gerais, Poté, H — 500 m, 20.XII.1996 – 25.I.1997, leg. H. Thöny, (GenPrMWM: 28.562) ( MWM).

Diagnosis. Externally, the new species is almost indistinguishable from G. tristis and G. modisma , but clearly differs in male genitalia: uncus without club-like extension apically, phallus with forked apex (both tips acute, one significantly longer).

Description. Length of fore wing 16 mm. Antenna bipectinate, setae short, length of antenna 1/4 of fore wing. Thorax and abdomen densely covered with dark-brown scales. Fore wing brown, short dark-brown strokes along costal edge with poorly pronounced light-brown spots between them, cubital area distally with hardly visible transverse wavy brown stripes, fringe brown. Hind wing basally grey, distally brown with poorly pronounced wavy pattern, fringe brown.

Male genitalia. Uncus long, with parallel edges, apex semicircular with small incisure; tegumen conical; gnathos arms absent; valva wide with outer edge lanceolate, costal and abdominal edges slightly curved, inner surface of valva (in medium third) with poorly pronounced harpe shaped as longitudinal fold; on sacculus—small longitudinal curved harpe narrowing distally; juxta cylindric with ring-like aperture, saccus semicircular, small; phallus very short (1/3 of valva in length), thick, slightly curved in basal third, apex forked (both tips acute, one significantly longer), vesica without cornuti.

Distribution. Brazil, State of Minas Gerais.

Etymology. The species has brown color such as the spice, cinnamon.

Figures

FIGURE 13. Distributional records of Givira Walker, 1856.

FIGURES 1–7. Givira, adults: 1. G. cinnamonea Naydenov, Yakovlev & Penco sp. nov., male, holotype, Brazil, Minas Gerais (MWM); 2. G. difflua Dognin, 1920, male, holotype, Argentina, La Rioja (USNM); 3. G. difflua Dognin, 1920, male, Argentina, Jujuy Prov., Santa Barbara Mts. (RYB); 4. G. difflua Dognin, 1920, female, Argentina, Jujuy Prov., Santa Barbara Mts. (RYB); 5. G. modisma Schaus, 1922, male, holotype, Guatemala, Quirigua (USNM); 6. G. modisma Schaus, 1922, male, Colombia, Huila (RYB); 7. G. tristis Walker, 1856, male, holotype (NHMUK).

FIGURES 8–11. Givira, male genitalia: 8. G. cinnamonea Naydenov, Yakovlev & Penco sp. nov., male, holotype, Brazil, Minas Gerais, GenPrMWM: 28.562 (MWM); 9. G. difflua Dognin, 1920, male, holotype, Argentina, La Rioja, genitalia slide by P. Gentili №85.229 (USNM); 10. G. modisma Schaus, 1922, male, holotype, Guatemala, Quirigua, genitalia slide by P. Gentili №85.253 (USNM); 11. G. tristis Walker, 1856, male, holotype, genitalia slide №125 (NHMUK).