Hoploscopa boleta Leger & Nuss, 2020
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.907.36563 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D717911D-F973-4401-BC2B-873E5ACED283 |
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Hoploscopa boleta Leger & Nuss |
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sp. nov. |
Hoploscopa boleta Leger & Nuss sp. nov. Figs 40 View Figures 34–45 , 79 View Figures 76–81 , 119 View Figures 119–122
Material examined.
Holotype: ♂, with labels: "Col[lection] BECKER | PNG 1562", " Papua New Guinea | Morobe, M[oun]t Kaindi | 2360m 3.x.1992 | V. O. Becker Col[lection]; " DNA voucher | Lepidoptera | MTD2016 | [vertically written:] no. 3160"; "TL440 | ♂". Deposited in USNM.
Paratypes: 2 ♀. Papua New Guinea: 1 ♀ (DNA voucher MTD LEP3168, genitalia on slide TL448 ♀), same data as holotype; 1 ♀ (DNA voucher MTD LEP3159), same locality as holotype, 27-28.vii.1983, leg. S.E. & P. M. Miller (USNM).
Diagnosis.
The forewings of H. boleta sp. nov. display median discoidal stigma and postmedian patch of a lighter brown, the latter with a well-marked pale yellow blotch at costa. In male genitalia, the conspicuous basal lateral projections of the juxta resemble the shape of a mushroom. Female genitalia are somewhat similar to those of other Hoploscopa species, e.g., H. parvimacula sp. nov., and H. danaoensis sp. nov., with a short straight ductus bursae, a pear-shaped corpus bursae, and a small straight thorn.
Similar species.
Hoploscopa pseudometacrossa sp. nov., to a lesser extent H. kelama sp. nov. (q.v.). In H. pseudometacrossa sp. nov., forewing median discoidal stigma and postmedian patch are barely marked, and postmedian pale yellow blotch at costa is much smaller. In male genitalia, gnathos of H. pseudometacrossa sp. nov. displays a thumb-like projection, juxta shows less prominent lateral projections and an indented apex. In female genitalia, corpus bursae is larger than that of H. boleta sp. nov.
Description.
Head. Antenna dorsally striped with ochreous and bronze scales. Proboscis pale yellow, basally brown. Maxillary palpi brown, base and inner side pale yellow. Labial palpi brown, ventro-basally pale yellow.
Thorax (Fig. 40 View Figures 34–45 ). Collar pale yellow. Forewing length: 9-10 mm (♂ & ♀); forewing ground colour brown; basal dash dark brown, distally pale yellow; basal and distal discoidal patches quadrangular, dark brown, basally and distally edged with pale yellow; median discoidal stigma there between trapezoid, light brown; dorsal median patch broad, pale yellow; postmedian patch light brown, with pale yellow blotch at costa; postmedian area suffused with pale yellow near costa; subterminal line dark brown, diffuse; fringe brown, with pale yellow dots. Hindwing pale yellow, darker at apex. Forelegs brown, tarsi bronze. Mid- and hindlegs with femur brown, tibia pale yellow, speckled with brown, tarsi bronze.
Abdomen. Male sternum A8 posterior margin broadly indented.
Male genitalia (N = 1) (Fig. 79 View Figures 76–81 ). Uncus slender, conspicuously narrowed at apical 1/4, apex duck beak-shaped, bearing thick setae, ventrally with three small ridges. Gnathos projection ca. 1/3 of the uncus length, gently narrowing toward apex, apex tongue-shaped. Valva ventral margin nearly straight, dorsal margin slightly convex, apex slightly blunt. Juxta mushroom-shaped, with base rounded, laterally with two conspicuous projections, abruptly narrowed at basal 1/3, apex spatulate. Saccus small, pointing dorsad.
Female genitalia (N = 2) (Fig. 119 View Figures 119–122 ). Anterior apophyses with dorsal bump at posterior 1/3. Antrum sclerotisation twice as long as broad. Ductus bursae short, nearly straight. Corpus bursae globular, posterior half reticulated, medially with erect acanthae, anterior half membranous, with sclerotisation between thorn and corpus opening, medially with a sclerotised band. Thorn straight, with small dents pointing toward thorn base.
Distribution.
Known from Mount Kaindi in the Morobe Province (Papua New Guinea), at an altitude of 2,360 m.
Phylogenetic relationships.
This species displays an uncus apex similar to those of H. jubata sp. nov., H. metacrossa , and H. pseudometacrossa sp. nov. and is possibly related to them.
Etymology.
From the Latin boletus, in reference to the mushroom shape of the juxta.
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