Hypatopa erato Adamski

Adamski, David, 2013, Review of the Blastobasinae of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Blastobasidae), Zootaxa 3618 (1), pp. 1-223 : 120-122

Hypatopa erato Adamski , new species

( Figs. 205–206 , 389 , Map 42)

Diagnosis.— Hypatopa erato is similar to H. fio in facies but differs from the latter by having a shorter uncus; a wider digitate process of the dorsal part of the valva; a lateral margin of the proximal flange that is more deeply serrate; and a phallus and sclerite of the phallus that is longer. H. erato also has a setose proximal flange of the dorsal part of the valva; a sclerite of the phallus that is abruptly curved at 2/3; and an apically truncate anellus that is constricted slightly beyond base that are lacking in H. fio .

Description.—Head: Scales on vertex and frontoclypeus grayish brown tipped with pale grayish brown. Outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with pale-brown scales along apical margins of segments 1–2, terminal segment with apical part pale brown; inner surface pale brown. Antennal scape grayish brown with pale-gray scales along apical margin, pecten pale brown, flagellum pale gray. Proboscis pale brown.

Thorax: Tegula grayish brown intermixed with few brown scales tipped with pale brown; mesonotum with brown scales tipped with pale brown. Legs brown intermixed with pale-brown scales near midsegments and along apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing ( Fig. 389 ): Length 6.2 mm (n = 1), pale brown intermixed with brownish-orange and brown scales; brown submedian fascia complete; cell with three brown spots, one near middle, two on apical end along crossvein; marginal spots brown, faint. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Translucent pale brown gradually darkening to apex.

MAP 42. Distribution of Hypatopa erato (●) and H. fio (˔).

Abdomen: Male genitalia ( Figs. 205–206 ): Uncus gradually narrowed from widened base, rounded apically, straight, sparsely setose, shorter than width of anal opening. Gnathos, narrow band, slightly directed anteriorly, confluent with tegumen; ventroposterior margin with shallowly emarginate median lobe. Sockets of tergal setae not extending to midlength of tegumen. Valva divided; ventral part protracting basally, nearly parallelsided to base of a large, inwardly curved, apical process; process setose on outer surface, planate on inner surface; ventral margin sparsely setose to near small, setose marginal ridge beneath apical process; dorsal part with apical portion of costa extending dorsally, forming setose digitate process; process geniculate basally; basal ridge of digitate process extending ventrally fusing with dorsolateral ridge of proximal flange; flange subquadrate densely microtrichiate on basal 2/3, densely setose on apical 1/3; margin deeply serrate. Juxta bandlike. Vinculum semicircular. Phallus and sclerite of phallus longer than valva; phallus and sclerite of phallus slightly curved subapically; anellus constricted beyond base, forming bulbous apical part, bearing two elongate setal clusters on lateral surfaces. Female Genitalia: Unknown.

Holotype, 3, “ COSTA RICA: Puntarenas, Estación Biológica Monteverde, 1500 m, 02-II-2001, col. Kenji Nishida, luz en la noche, “INBio, 3 Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 2703.

Distribution (Map 42). Hypatopa erato is known from one collecting site on the Cordillera de Tilarán in westcentral Costa Rica.

Etymology. The specific epithet erato is chosen in honor of Erato , the Muse of lyric and love-poetry.

Figures

FIGURES 201 – 206. Male Genitalia of Blastobasinae. 201 – 202, Hypatopa nox (slide 2672). 203 – 204, Hypatopa dux (slide 2668). 205 – 206, Hypatopa erato (slide 2703).

FIGURES 384 – 391. Imagos of Blastobasinae. 384, Hypatopa verax, holotype. 385, Hypatopa tapadulcea Adamski, 1999. 386, Hypatopa mora, holotype. 387, Hypatopa nox, holotype. 388, Hypatopa dux, holotype. 389, Hypatopa erato, holotype. 390, Hypatopa fio, holotype. 391, Hypatopa io, holotype.