Hypatopa agnae Adamski

Adamski, David, 2013, Review of the Blastobasinae of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Blastobasidae), Zootaxa 3618 (1), pp. 1-223 : 106-107

Hypatopa agnae Adamski , new species

( Figs. 179–180 , 376 , Map 35)

Diagnosis.— Hypatopa agnae is similar to H. scobis and H. lucina but differs from them by having a more acutely curved apical part of uncus. H. agnae also has a ventroposterior margin of the gnathos that is not anteriorly directed; an undulate phallus that is bulbous basally; a sclerite of phallus that is acutely curved basally; and an anellus that is narrowly truncate apically and setose on the apical 1/2 that are lacking in H. scobis and H. lucina .

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

Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brown intermixed with few pale-brown scales. Legs brown intermixed with pale-brown scales near midsegments and apical margins of tarsomeres. Forewing ( Fig. 376 ): Length 4.5 mm (n = 1), pale brown intermixed with brownish-orange scales and brown scales; submedian fascia faint; cell with three faint brown spots, one near middle, two on apical end along crossvein. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Translucent pale brown.

Abdomen: Male genitalia ( Figs. 179–180 ): Uncus gradually narrowed from wide base, parallelsided from middle to subapical region, slightly widening apically, forming narrowly rounded, acutely curved apical part; apical part sparsely setose, shorter than width of anal opening. Gnathos narrow ring confluent with tegumen, ventroposterior margin widely emarginate mesially. Sockets of tergal setae not extending beyond midlength of tegumen. Valva divided; ventral part projecting inwardly, gradually widened to midlength, narrowing apically, forming large, inwardly curved, apical process; process setose on outer surface, planate on inner surface; ventral margin slightly upturned beyond middle, forming narrow fold to near small setose lobe at base of apical process; dorsal part with apical portion of costa extending dorsally, forming setose digitate process; process broadly curved inwardly; basal ridge of digitate process extending ventrally fusing with dorsal ridge of proximal flange; flange ellipsoid, sparsely microtrichiate on dorsal 1/3, densely setose on ventral 2/3; margin shallowly crenulate. Juxta bandlike. Vinculum semicircular. Phallus and sclerite of phallus longer than valva; phallus undulate, bulbous basally, sclerite of phallus sigmoid-shaped; anellus gradually narrowed from widened base, narrowly truncate apically, setose on apical 1/2. Female Genitalia: Unknown.

Holotype, 3, “Est[ación] Cacao, 1000–1400 m, Lado SO Vol[can] Cacao, P[arque] N[acional] G[uanacaste], Prov[incia] Guan[acaste], COSTA RICA, A. Guadamuz, Jun[io]-Ago[sto] 1991, L-N-323300, 375700, “INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI000, 338531 [barcode label], “INBio, 3 Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 2220 [yellow label].

Paratypes (2 3): 1 3, same data as for holotype except, “CRI000, 338534, “Slide No. 2225, “USNM 83977; 1 3, “C. Moraga, 21 a 29 May, 1992, “CRI000, 411956, “Slide No. 2271, “USNM 83978 [2 in USNM].

Distribution (Map 35). Hypatopa agnae is known from one collecting site in northwestern Costa Rica on the western most part of the Cordillera de Guanacaste.

Etymology. The specific epithet agnae is derived from the Latin agna meaning, a ewe or lamb.

Figures

FIGURES 177 – 182. Male genitalia of Blastobasinae. 177 – 178, Hypatopa scobis (slide 2277). 179 – 180, Hypatopa agnae (slide 2220). 181 – 182, Hypatopa phoebe (slide 2544).

FIGURES 376 – 383. Imagos of Blastobasinae. 376, Hypatopa agnae, holotype. 377, Hypatopa phoebe, holotype. 378, Hypatopa semela, holotype. 379, Hypatopa edax, holotype. 380, Hypatopa joniella, holotype. 381, Hypatopa rego, holotype. 382, Hypatopa styga, holotype. 383, Hypatopa texla, holotype.