Mictopsichia chirripoana, Razowski, Józef, 2011

Razowski, Józef, 2011, Descriptions of five new species of the Neotropical Mictopsichia group of genera (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), Zootaxa 3058, pp. 63-68 : 64-66

Mictopsichia chirripoana sp. n.

Figs. 7 , 10

Diagnosis. In facies, M. chirripoana is similar to M. gemmisparsana , but M. chirripoana has a greater forewing length, a darker brown forewing ground color, and broad suffusion of the hindwing, particularly in the apical region, that is either faint or lacking in M. gemmisparsana .

Description. Head: Brownish; labial palpus cream with terminal brown marking, length over 1.5 times diameter of compound eye. Thorax: Dark brown. Forewing length 6.7 mm; forewing weakly expanding terminad; termen not oblique, slightly concave medially; ground colour brownish; some dirty orange spots along termen; weak brown reticulation in posterior third of wing; refractive markings present; remnants of usual dark markings illdefined. Fringe brownish, cream yellowish at median part of termen. Hindwing orange; costal part of wing suffused brownish; apical markings fasciate, blackish; cubito-anal area brown, reticulated with cream and brown at mid-third of median cell, with black and silvery refractive scale patches. Fringe cream grey, with some paler parts. Abdomen: Male genitalia unknown. Female genitalia ( Fig. 7 ) with papilla analis slender; sterigma weakly sclerotized with short anteostial part and dorso-proximal corners; antrum tapering proximally, membranous, with anterior sclerite; ductus bursae slender; ductus seminalis originating near antrum; signum moderate with rather small basal plate and longer blade.

Holotype female. Costa Rica: San José Province: Parque National Chirripó, Llano Bonito, 2500 m, 9°27'16''N, 83°32'41''W, 18 February 2005, K. Nishida; GS USNM 134,114.

Etymology. The name refers to Parque National Chirripó.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 8. Male and female genitalia. 1, 2. Mictopsichia misahaullia sp. n., holotype. 3, 4. Rubropsichia kartaboana sp. n., holotype. 5, 6. Chamaepsichia cetonia sp. n., holotype. 7. Mictopsichia chirripoana sp. n., holotype. 8. Chamaepsichia chitonregis sp. n., holotype.

FIGURES 9 – 13. Adults. 9. Mictopsichia misahaullia sp. n., holotype. 10. Mictopsichia chirripoana sp. n., holotype. 11. Rubropsichia kartaboana sp. n., holotype. 12. Chamaepsichia cetonia sp. n., holotype. 13. Chamaepsichia chitonregis sp. n., holotype.