Hypatopa nox Adamski

Adamski, David, 2013, Review of the Blastobasinae of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Blastobasidae), Zootaxa 3618 (1), pp. 1-223 : 118-119

Hypatopa nox Adamski , new species

( Figs. 201–202 , 387 , Map 41)

Diagnosis.— Hypatopa nox is similar to H. dux in facies but differs from the latter by having a more protuberant median lobe of the ventroposterior margin of the gnathos; a wider apical process of the ventral part of the valva; and a shorter phallus. H. nox also has an outwardly curved digitate process of the dorsal part of the valva; an apically rounded, shallowly crenulate, margin of the proximal flange of the dorsal part of the valva; a sigmoidshaped sclerite of the phallus; and a broadly rounded apical margin of the anellus that are lacking in H. dux .

Description.—Head: Scales on vertex and frontoclypeus brownish gray tipped with pale brownish gray. Outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with pale-brown scales, inner surface paler. Antennal scape and pecten brownish gray, flagellum gray. Proboscis pale brownish gray.

Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum grayish brown. Legs brown intermixed with pale-brown scales near midsegments and along apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing ( Fig. 387 ): Length 5.8–6.1 mm (n = 6), pale brown intermixed with brown scales; cell with three spots, one near middle, two on apical end along crossvein; marginal spots faint or absent. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Translucent pale brown.

Abdomen: Male genitalia ( Figs. 201–202 ): Uncus gradually narrowed from wide base, acutely curved and narrowly rounded apically, sparsely setose, longer than width of anal opening. Gnathos narrow, anteriorly directed band, confluent with tegumen; ventroposterior margin narrowly emarginate. Sockets of tergal setae not extending to midlength of tegumen. Valva divided; ventral part basally truncate, angular near middle, abruptly narrowed apically, forming large, inwardly curved, apical process; process, setose on outer surface, planate on inner surface, ventral margin setose from angular part to margin, setose lobe at base of apical process; dorsal part with apical portion of costa extending dorsolaterally, forming setose digitate process; process broadly recurrent, shorter than apical process on ventral part; basal ridge of digitate process setose, extending ventrally fusing with dorsolateral ridge of proximal flange; flange elongate, broadly rounded apically, sparsely spinulate on basal 1/2, densely spiculate and sparsely setose on apical 1/2; margin shallowly crenulate. Juxta bandlike. Vinculum semicircular. Phallus and sclerite of phallus longer than valva; phallus straight, sclerite of phallus sigmoid-shaped; anellus gradually narrowed from wide base, broadly rounded apically, setose on basal 1/2. Female Genitalia: Unknown.

Holotype, 3, “Est[ación] La Casona, 1520 m, Res[erva] Biol[ógica] Monteverde, Prov[incia] Puntarenas, COSTA RICA, Ago[sto] 1992, N. Obando, L-N-253250, 449700, “INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI000, 947187 [barcode label], “INBio, 3 Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 2672 [yellow label].

Paratypes (5 ƤƤ): 1 Ƥ, “Est. La Carsona, 1520 m, Res. Biol. Monteverde, Prov. Puntarenas, COSTA RICA, Ago. 1992, N. Orbando, L-N-253250, 449700, “CRI0 0 0, 947042, “Slide No. 4538, “USNM 84012; 2 ƤƤ, # 2295, “CRI001, 910108, “Slide No. 4531; “CRI001, 910130, “Slide No. 4536, “USNM 84013; 1 Ƥ, “Ene., “CRI001, 368962, “Slide No. 4534; 1 Ƥ, “ Mar. 1994, # 2819, “CRI001, 764749, “Gen. Slide No. 4535, “Wing Slide No. 7024 [3 in INBio, 2 in USNM].

MAP 41. Distribution of Hypatopa nox (●) and H. dux (˔).

Distribution (Map 41). Hypatopa nox is known from one collecting site on the Cordillera de Tilarán in westcentral Costa Rica.

Etymology. The specific epithet nox is derived from the Latin meaning, night.

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.