Callipia hausmanni sp. nov.

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Figs 28–29, 34, 38, 42

BIN (holotype): BOLD:AAZ7888.

Diagnosis

While males of C. hausmanni sp. nov. look rather similar as the other three species of the complex, the females are easily distinguished: only females of C. hausmanni sp. nov. possess broad cream white margins and a large pale rosy base of the forewing. The males have purely cream white fringes, a relatively intensive rosy basal area of the forewings and a more contrasting pattern of the hindwings than the related species. The male genitalia are characterised by a rectangular shape of the tegumen (rounded in the other species) and a narrower uncus. The spine-like processes of the valvae are long and slightly curved. COI-barcode: the minimum observed distance to the genetically most similar species (C. vicinaria) is 5.0%.

Etymology

The species is named in honour of Axel Hausmann (ZSM), Munich, a leading Geometridae expert in acknowledgment of his support for this study.

Type material

Holotype (Figs 28, 34) PERU: ♂, Junín, near Calabaza village, 11.487° S, 74.888° W, 3350 m, 27 Jan. 2011, V. Sinyaev and A. Poleschuk leg. (ZSM) (C-0406 with GS, COI sequence 658 bp, BIN).

Paratypes PERU: 1 ♀, same data as for holotype (ZSM) (C-0407 with GS, 658 bp, BIN, Figs 38, 42); 1 ♂, same data as for holotype (ZSM) (C-0408); 7 ♂♂, 1 ♀, same data as for holotype, but 11.493° S, 74.918° W, 3035 m, 29 Jan. 2011 (NHM, PMJ, RCGB, MUSM, ZSM) (C-0409–0412; C-0413, Fig. 29; C-0414–0416) .

Description

As illustrated.

Distribution

Only known from high elevations in a small area of the Eastern Andes of central Peru, 3000–3400 m.