Sparganothoides licrosana Kruse and Powell, 2009

Kruse, James J. & Powell, Jerry A., 2009, Systematics of Sparganothoides Lambert and Powell, 1986 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Sparganothini), Zootaxa 2150 (1), pp. 1-78 : 45-46

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2150.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5483756
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/BD2F87FB-FFB0-F400-FF70-FEE8FF33FEFC
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Sparganothoides licrosana Kruse and Powell
status	sp. nov.

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22. Sparganothoides licrosana Kruse and Powell View in CoL , new species

Figs. 25 View FIGURES 25–30 , 49 View FIGURES 48–56 , 80 View FIGURES 79–94 , 95 View FIGURES 95–98

Diagnosis. Sparganothoides licrosana is superficially most similar to S. hydeana , but has a male forewing costal fold and three protuberances on the head, all of which are lacking in S. hydeana . The specialized scales on the prothorax are iridescent bluish purple.

Description. Male. Head: Frons yellowish white to brownish orange, smooth scaled; vertex roughened, yellowish brown to brownish orange; two large exoskeletal protuberances between mesal-posterior margins of compound eyes and angled toward middle; one laterally broad protuberance between antennae; broad area of densely packed, short, yellowish brown to brownish orange scales between anterior and posterior protuberances; short, erect, yellowish white to brown scales between posterior protuberances. Labial palpus pale orange mesally, brownish orange and fuscous laterally. Antennal scaling brownish orange with some dark brown scales. Thorax: Brownish orange with scattered dark brown scales; dense column of short brown scales mesally, iridescent bluish purple on prothorax; tegula with clump of small orange or brown, pointed scales at apex giving tegula truncate appearance. Forewing length 11.6–12.1 mm (= 11.9; n = 2). Forewing ground color brown to brownish orange, with indistinct pattern of orange, brownish orange, and/or reddish brown scaling; indistinct subterminal fascia brown; brown and orange transverse strigulae throughout subterminal and terminal areas, occasionally with some white scaling with strigulae; occasionally with an indistinct brown tornal mark approaching discal cell; brown spot at apex of discal cell. Fringe brownish yellow to brownish orange. Hindwing yellowish gray, grayer marginally, with gray transverse strigulae throughout, most dense in apical and distal regions; patch of raised yellowish white scales subbasally, smaller patch of shorter scales on anal angle. Abdomen: Genitalia ( Fig. 25 View FIGURES 25–30 ; slide #5609; EME; Mexico, Sinaloa, 2 mi SW Potrerillos; n = 1) with uncus long, slender, unmodified apically, elbowed at nearly 90° angle at twothirds distance from base, with long setae dorsally and patch of short setae ventrally; tegumen triangular at base of uncus; socius rounded posteriorly, secondary arms long, slender, abruptly angled near middle, enlarged apices asymmetrically lobed, boot-shaped; transtilla strongly sclerotized, weakly bilobed, spines short, numerous over most of posterior margin, anterior process reinforced with mesal invagination; valva subrectangular, valval crease straight or slightly curved, roughly parallel to sacculus or slightly declined toward it, not connecting near base of sacculus; sacculus and costa straight; pulvinus present; phallus pistolshaped, aedeagus parallel-sided, slightly curved, shorter than phallobase, attenuate apically, attached to juxta by a thin process.

Female. Head, Thorax: Essentially as described for male, except generally darker; ground color deep brownish orange to dark grayish brown, tornal marking tinged with dark red. Forewing length 10.8–11.9 mm (= 11.5; n = 3). Hindwing gray with darker gray transverse striae throughout. Abdomen: Genitalia ( Fig. 49 View FIGURES 48–56 ; slide #5610; EME; Mexico, Sinaloa, 2 mi SW Potrerillos; n = 1) with papillae anales parallel-sided, rounded posteriorly; sterigma strongly sclerotized ventrally, concave anteriorly; ductus bursae short, widened anteriorly; corpus bursae large, irregularly rounded; signum more than three times as long as wide, weakly bilobed, gently curved, attenuate at apices.

Type material. Holotype: Male : MEXICO: SINALOA: 2 mi SW Potrerillos, 4200’, 12.viii.1986, J. Brown & J. Powell, reared from eggs on synthetic diet, emgd. 12.iv.1987, JAP 86H31 ( EME).

Paratypes (1♂, 3♀). MEXICO: SINALOA : 2 mi SW Potrerillos , 4200’, 12.viii.1986 (1♀), blacklight, J. Brown & Powell ( EME), reared from eggs on synthetic diet, emgd. 12.iv–5.v.1987 (1♂, 2♀), JAP 86H31 ( EME, NMNH) .

Immature stages. Eggs are peach-tan colored and covered by an opaque colleterial secretion exceeding the patch by ca. 0.70–0.90 mm. Eggs are arranged in regular round patches of 17–39 (= 26.7 eggs per patch, n = 3). Eggs hatched in about 10 days. Larvae fed on synthetic diet and Quercus lobata with variable success. The anal comb has nine tines. Development time from oviposition to pupation, with a lengthy quiescent period, was more than seven months. Adults emerged 228 to 250 days following eclosion from eggs.

Etymology. The name is derived from the Greek “likros” (= horn) in reference to the protuberances of the head.