Ernocornutia firna, Razowski, Józef & Wojtusiak, Janusz, 2008

Razowski, Józef & Wojtusiak, Janusz, 2008, Notes on Ernocornutia Razowski, 1988 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Euliini) with descriptions of seven new species from Ecuador, Zootaxa 1720, pp. 46-56 : 49

Ernocornutia firna , sp. n.

( Figs. 1 , 11 a, 11b)

Diagnosis. This species is closest to E. catopta , but E. firna is distinguished by the short, stout uncus with a slender terminal portion, the short, terminal spiny lobes of the gnathos arms, and the absence of spines on the triangular termination of the sacculus.

Description. Wing span ca. 20 mm. Head brown, frons and vertex cream; labial palpus ca. 2 times horizontal diameter of compound eye, brownish grey. Thorax brown. Forewing expanded terminally; costa slightly convex; termen oblique, straight. Ground colour brownish cream, cream in distal half of wing along edges forming a convex fascia reaching beyond mid-termen before apical marking; three greyish brown, indistinct blotches in basal area of wing, median fascia represented by costal, median, and tornal blotches; subapical area dark, with weakly differentiated costal spots. Cilia dirty cream with brown-grey lines. Hindwing whitish cream, cream apically, with some diffuse grey spots. Cilia white with indistinct lines.

Male genitalia ( Figs. 11 a, 11b). Uncus rather short, stout, broadest just beyond middle; gnathos arms short with small terminal spiny lobe along caudal edge; sacculus long, slightly convex in middle ventrally, with triangular termination lacking spines; aedeagus large, as long as sacculus.

Female unknown.

Holotype male: “ Ecuador: Cañar; Pime N. Cañar, 3200 m, XII-11-1970, L. Pena collector”, GS 11136. Depostied in American Museum of Natural History, New York.

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 10. Adults of Ernocornutia. 1, E. firna, sp. n., holotype; 2, E. paracatopta, sp. n., holotype; 3, E. chiribogana, sp. n., holotype; 4, E. termasiana, sp. n., holotype; 5, E. sangayana, sp. n., holotype, male; 6, E. pilaloana, sp. n., holotype; 7, E. pululahuana, sp. n., holotype; 8, E. paracatopta, sp. n., paratype, female; 9, E. termasiana, sp. n., paratype female; 10, E. sangayana, sp. n., paratype, female.

FIGURES 11 – 14. Male genitalia of Ernocornutia. 11 a, b, E. firna, sp. n., holotype; 12 a, b, E. paracatopta, sp. n., holotype; 13 a, b, E. chiribogana, sp. n., holotype; 14 a, b, E. termasiana, sp. n., holotype.