Hagnagora hedwigae Brehm

Brehm, Gunnar, 2015, Three new species of Hagnagora Druce, 1885 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Ecuador and Costa Rica and a concise revision of the genus, ZooKeys 537, pp. 131-156 : 139-140

Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Geometridae

Hagnagora hedwigae Brehm sp. n. Fig. 14

Type material.

Holotype: female (Fig. 14): Ecuador, Loja province, Reserva Biológica San Francisco, 03°59.68'S, 79°04.10'W, 2677 m, 25 November 2008, G. Brehm leg. (ID 17397, genitalia preparation, barcode sequence 595 bp) (PMJ).

Description.

As illustrated in Fig. 14.

Distribution.

Only a single female is known from Hagnagora hedwigae collected in southern Ecuador (2677 m). The wing length of the holotype (female) is 21 mm (same size as richardi ).

Diagnosis.

Resembles most closely Hagnagora anicata and Hagnagora richardi , but is larger than Hagnagora anicata , and the signum of the bursa copulatrix is more complex than in Hagnagora richardi . COI barcode: The minimum observed distance to the presumably most closely related species ( Hagnagora anicata ) is 3.1%.

Etymology.

Hagnagora hedwigae is named in memory of Hedwig Seppelt (*1919 in Baumgarten, Silesia; † 2013 in Korschenbroich, Germany). Mrs Seppelt loved nature, and she took care that birds, small animals and insects found a habitat in her garden. The name is given in recognition of support for the taxonomy of Neotropical geometrid moths provided by her daughter-in-law Irmgard and her son Winfried Seppelt.