Endrosis apablazai Urra, 2023

Urra, Francisco, Araneda, Sebastián & Moreira, Gilson R. P., 2023, New species of Oecophoridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea) from Chile, Zootaxa 5254 (2), pp. 209-230 : 213-214

Endrosis apablazai Urra sp. nov.

( Figs. 5, 6 , 23, 24 , 41, 42 ).

Diagnosis. Endrosis apablazai sp. nov. can be differentiated easily from E. sarcitrella by the white coloration of the wings, male gnathos with narrow posterior protrusion and stout phallus, female genitalia with ductus bursae not differentiated from corpus bursae and corpus bursae without signum. Wing coloration pattern of E. apablazai is similar to Nagehana chagualphaga ( Beéche, 2003) , but in addition to differences in genitalia structure, E. apablazai has a complete basal brown fascia on the FW.

Description

Male ( Fig. 5 ). Wingspan: 13.2–20.7 mm (n = 3).

Head. Front and vertex white; flagellum and scape white; pecten yellowish white; labial palpus white, basal half of second segment and apex of third segment brown ( Fig. 6 ); haustellum white.

Thorax. White, with base of tegulae and scutellum brown. FW white, basal fascia dark brown, costa grey on middle third, two black dots on R and a black transversal line on distal end of DC, diffuse grey spot on tornus, subapical fascia grey, fringe white and grey mixed; R 5 ending to the costa; HW greyish white, with fringe yellowish white. Fore- and midlegs dark grey, tarsomeres annulated, hindleg white; hind tibia with piliform yellowish white scales.

Abdomen. Yellowish white. Terga with spiniform setae arranged in wide patches ( Fig. 24 ).

Male genitalia ( Fig. 41 ). Uncus and gnathos subtriangular, gnathos of similar length to uncus, with narrow protrusion on posterior end; valva subtriangular; sacculus three-fourths length of valva, with internal spiniform process; juxta subsquare with two lateral digitiform lobes of similar length to middle lobe; saccus as long as wide; phallus longer than valva, stout ( Fig. 41b ), vesica armed with four cornuti, the two largest curved, smaller ones spiniform.

Female ( Fig. 5 ). Color pattern similar to male. Wingspan: 13.2–19.6 mm (n = 9).

Female genitalia ( Fig. 42 ). Apophysis posterioris 1.3 times as long as apophysis anterioris; ostium bursae transverse; antrum sclerotized; ductus bursae not differentiated from corpus bursae; corpus bursae subspherical, without signum.

Type material. Holotype: (♁) CHILE CORDILLERA, Pirque Santa Rita , 33°39′23.4″ S 70°31′56″ W, 18-X-2011, Trampa luz col. L. Rojas ( MNNC) . Paratypes: (1♀) CHILE QUILLOTA, PN La Campana Ocoa, 32°56′1″ S 71° 5′9,8″ W, 1-XI-2014, Trampa luzcol. F. Urra ( MNNC); (1♀) CHILE MARGA MARGA, PN La Campana Granizo, 32°57′36.37″ S 71º′27,22″ W, 28-XI-2015, Trampa luzcol. F. Urra ( MNNC); (1♀) CHILE MELIPILLA, Curacaví Miraflores , 24-IX-2011, col. C. Palma ( MNNC); (1♀, 1♁) CHILE CORDILLERA, Pirque Santa Rita , 33°39′23.4″ S 70°31′56″ W, 18-X-2011, Trampa luz col. L. Rojas ( MNNC); (1♀) CHILE CORDILLERA, Pirque Santa Rita , 33°39′16.3″ S 70°31′31.4″ W, 31-I-2012, Trampa luz col. F. Urra ( MNNC); (1♀) CHILE COLCHAGUA, Chimbarongo Q. El Sauce, 34°48′47″ S 70°56′2″ W, 22-XI-2019, Trampa luz col. F. Urra ( MNNC); (1♀) CHILE COLCHAGUA, Chimbarongo Q. El Sauce, 34°48′47″ S 70°56′2″ W, 1-X-2020, Trampa luz col. F. Urra ( MNNC); (1♀) CHILE CURICO, Teno La Montaña , 34°59′42″ S 70°48′50″ W, 16-III-2013, Trampa luz col. F. Urra ( MNNC); (1♁) CHILE CURICO, Teno La Montaña , 34°59′42″ S 70°48′50″ W, 4-I-2014, Trampa luz col. F.Urra ( MNNC); (1♀) CHILE CURICO, Teno La Montaña , 34°59′42″ S 70°48′50″ W, 7-III-2015, Trampa luz col. F. Urra ( MNNC) .

Distribution. Central Chile (Quillota, Marga Marga, Melipilla, Cordillera, Colchagua, Curicó).

Etymology. The species is named for Jaime Apablaza Hidalgo, Professor of Entomology at the Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Figures

FIGURES 1–6. Habitus (scale bar = 5.0 mm) and labial palpi (scale bar = 0.5 mm) of the new species of Oecophoridae. Corita morai Urra sp. nov. (1–2), Encolia flava Urra sp. nov. (3–4), Endrosis apablazai Urra sp. nov. (5–6).

FIGURES 19–24. Wing venation and detail of female abdomen of the new species of Oecophoridae. Corita morai Urra sp. nov. (19–20), Encolia flava Urra sp. nov. (21–22), Endrosis apablazai Urra sp. nov. (23–24) (scale bar = 1.0 mm). ap = apodeme, ve = venula, s2 = second abdominal sternum, ss = spiniform setae, t1 and t2 = first and second abdominal terga.

FIGURES 37–42. Male genitalia, without left valva (a) and aedeagus removed (b), and female genitalia of the new species of Oecophoridae. Corita morai Urra sp. nov (37–38), Encolia flava Urra sp. nov. (39–40), Endrosis apablazai Urra sp. nov. (41–42) (scale bar = 0.5 mm). aa = apophysis anteriores, an = antrum, ap = apophysis posterioris, cb = corpus bursae, co = cornutus, db = ductus bursae, ds = ductus seminalis, gn = gnathos, ju = juxta, si = signum, te = tegumen, un = uncus, va = valva, ve = vesica, vi = vinculum.