Heliades lindae Cashatt, 2013

Solis, M. Alma, Cashatt, Everett D. & Scholtens, Brian G., 2013, New North American Chrysauginae (Pyralidae) described by E. D. Cashatt, ZooKeys 344, pp. 55-71 : 61-62

Heliades lindae Cashatt sp. n. Figs 2 , 8-10

Description.

Alar expanse. 15 to 17 mm.

Head. Labial palpus dark reddish-brown with fuscous on under surface; frons, vertex, occiput, and antenna brownish-red.

Thorax. Upper surface brownish-red; under surface fuscous. Forewing brownish-red with white dentate antemedial and postmedial lines; antemedial line extending from about two-fifths costa to nearly two-fifths inner margin, postmedial line extending from three-fourths costa to just proximad of anal angle; terminal line fuscous; fringe gray with a dark medial line; under surface grayish-brown with apex brownish-red. Hind wing light grayish-brown; fringe gray with a dark medial line, under surface gray with apex reddish-brown. Legs fuscous with midtibia and tarsus white.

Abdomen. Upper surface concolorous with hind wings; terminal fringe ochreous.

Male genitalia. Uncus long and aculeate, setose dorsad; tegumen narrow dorsad; vinculum broad with a well-developed saccus, but more broadly rounded; gnathos reduced to a slender arm articulating at base of uncus; valva with sacculus small and papilliform, setose; valva heavily sclerotized and plate-shaped with apex truncate, ankylosed with flat truncate tips of arms produced by juxta; juxta shield-shaped and ankylosed with inner margin of vinculum; phallus long and slender, coecum well-developed.

Female genitalia. Ovipositor extremely short; apex of papillae anales bilobate and broad; eighth segment extremely short; anterior apophysis about one-half length of posterior apophysis; opening of ostium bursae at anterior of eighth sternite, small and sclerotized; anterior margin of sinus vaginalis bilobate and more broadly joined to the anterior margin of the eighth sternite; inception of ductus seminalis below antrum; ductus bursae weakly sclerotized and constricted near junction of corpus bursae; signum a pair of spines.

Type data.

All the type specimens are in the USNM. The male holotype is from Palmerlee, Arizona (no other data given) and is labeled as the holotype. Twenty-three male and nineteen female paratypes from UNITED STATES: ARIZONA are labeled as follows: one female, Baboquivari Mts., Pima Co., 1-15 Sept. 1923, O. C. Poling; one male, Chiricahua Mts., July 4, H. G. Hubbard; one male, Fort Grant, July 20, H. G. Hubbard; one female, Hereford, no date, C. R. Biedermann; one male, Huachuca Mts., no date; one female, Huachuca Mts., Aug. 8-15; one male, Madera Canyon, Santa Rita Mts., Aug. 19, 1953, Robert J. Ford; one male, Nogales, July 15, 1903, Oslar; one female, Oracle, July 28, 1924, E. P. Van Duzee; nine males, four females, Palmerlee, no date given; one female, Palmerlee, Cochise Co., Aug. 1-7; one male, one female, Paradise, Cochise Co., no date; four males, five females, Paradise, Cochise Co., July; two females, Paradise, Cochise Co., Aug.; one female, Paradise, Cochise Co., Aug. 1-7; one male, S.W.R.R., 5 mi. W. Portal, Cochise Co., 5400 ft., July 9, 1956, Cazier and Ordway; one female, Santa Catalina Mts., no date given; one male, White Mts., El. 7000 ft., July 15-22, 1925, O. C. Poling.

Life history.

Unknown.

Remarks.

It gives me pleasure to name this species in honor of my wife, Linda. The coloration of Heliades lindae is similar to Heliades huachucalis except the former is lighter and more reddish. The antemedial and postmedial lines of Heliades huachucalis are white, but unlike Heliades lindae the lines are margined with fuscous.

Figures

Figures 1 - 4. Male holotypes of adults and labels. 1 Arta brevivalvalis 2 Heliades lindae 3 Paragalasa exospinalis 4 Penthesilea sacculalis baboquivariensis.

Figures 5 - 10. Male, female genitalia. 5 Arta brevivalvalis paratype male, USA, Arizona, Palmerlee, [no collection date on label], EDC 981, USNM 104473 6 phallus, data same as previous 7 paratype female, USA, Arizona, Palmerlee, [no collection date on label], EDC 982, USNM 104474 8 Heliades lindae paratype male, USA, Arizona, Palmerlee, [no collection date on label], EDC 80, USNM 105993 9 phallus, data same as previous 10 paratype female, USA, Arizona, Palmerlee, [no collection date on label], EDC 84, USNM 104482.