Hypatopa lucina Adamski

Adamski, David, 2013, Review of the Blastobasinae of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Blastobasidae), Zootaxa 3618 (1), pp. 1-223 : 104

Hypatopa lucina Adamski , new species

( Figs. 175–176 , 374 , Map 34)

Diagnosis.— Hypatopa lucina is similar to H. scobis and H. agnae in facies but differs from them by having a shorter uncus; a more inwardly curved apical process of the ventral part of the valva; and a shorter sclerite of the phallus. H. lucina also has an entire ventroposterior margin of the gnathos; an outwardly curved digitate process of the dorsal part of the valva; and a setose anellus with a truncate apical margin that are lacking in H. scobis and H. agnae .

Description.—Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus pale brown [many scales missing]. Labial palpi missing. Antennal scape with scales grayish brown tipped with pale grayish brown, pecten pale brown, flagellum brown. Proboscis pale grayish brown.

Thorax: Tegula with grayish-brown scales tipped with pale grayish brown on basal 2/3, pale brown on apical 1/ 3; mesonotum with grayish-brown scales tipped with pale grayish brown. Legs grayish brown intermixed with pale grayish-brown scales near midsegments and apical margins of tarsomeres. Forewing ( Fig. 374 ): Length 5.3 mm (n = 1), pale brown intermixed with white, brownish-orange, and brown scales. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Translucent pale brown.

Abdomen: Male genitalia ( Figs. 175–176 ): Uncus narrow and parallelsided from base to subapical region, narrowing to acuminate apex, slightly curved downwards, sparsely setose, shorter than width of anal opening. Gnathos narrow, anteriorly directed band, partially free posterolaterally from tegumen, bearing a short, protuberant process on each posterolateral angle, ventroposterior margin entire. Sockets of tergal setae not extending beyond midlength of tegumen. Valva divided; ventral part broadly protracted inwardly at base, gradually widened to midlength, narrowing to near constricted part beneath base of large, hinged, inwardly curved apical process; process setose on outer surface, planate on inner surface; ventral margin inwardly curved slightly beyond middle, forming narrow fold, terminating near round, setose, marginal ridge at base of apical process; dorsal part with apical portion of costa extending dorsolaterally, forming setose digitate process; process widened basally gradually narrowing to apex; basal ridge of digitate process extending ventrally fusing with dorsolateral ridge of proximal flange; both flanges asymetrically rounded, slightly protracted laterally, sparsely microtrichiate mesially, densely setose submarginally; margin entire. Juxta bandlike. Vinculum semicircular. Phallus longer than valva, acutely curved subapically; sclerite of phallus shorter than valva, shallowly curved from middle; anellus slightly widened from base, broadly rounded apically, setose. Female Genitalia: Unknown.

Holotype, 3, “F[in]ca Jenny, 30 km N de Liberia, P[arque] N[acional] Guanacaste, Prov[incia] Guan[acaste], COSTA RICA, R. Espinoza, Jun[io] 1991, L-N-316200, 364400, “INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI000, 323963 [barcode label], “INBio, 3 Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 2401 [yellow label].

Distribution (Map 34). Hypatopa lucina is known from one collecting site in northwestern Costa Rica in the dry-forest region southwest of the Cordillera de Guanacaste.

Etymology. The specific epithet lucina is chosen in honor of Lucina , the goddess of births.

Figures

FIGURES 171 – 176. Male genitalia of Blastobasinae. 171 – 172, Hypatopa caepae (slide 2172). 173 – 174, Hypatopa cotytto (slide 2542). 175 – 176, Hypatopa lucina (slide 2401).

FIGURES 368 – 375. Imagos of Blastobasinae. 368, Hypatopa plebis, holotype. 369, Hypatopa dolo, holotype. 370, Hypatopa cyane, holotype. 371, Hypatopa manus, holotype. 372, Hypatopa caepae, holotype. 373, Hypatopa cotytto, holotype. 374, Hypatopa lucina, holotype. 375, Hypatopa scobis, holotype.