Hoploscopa anamesa Tams, 1935
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Hoploscopa anamesa Tams, 1935 Figs 28 View Figures 19–33 , 69 View Figures 64–69 , 108 View Figures 107–110
Material examined.
Lectotype: ♀, with labels: "LECTO- | TYPE" [round label, purple ringed]; "SYN- | TYPE" [round label, blue ringed]; "New Hebrides: | Tanna. | ix.1930. | L.E.Cheesman. | B.M.1931-30."; "Lectotype | Hoploscopa | astrapias | anamesa | Tams | det. Nuß” [handwritten]; " NHMUK 010923391" [barcode appended]. Deposited in NHMUK.
Other specimens examined.
2 ♂, 2 ♀. Vanuatu: 1 ♂ (NHMUK010923465), 1 ♀ (NHMUK010923466, genitalia on slide TL718 ♀), Aneityum Island, Red Crest, 3 [k]m NE of Anelgauhat, 1200ft, vi.1955, leg. E. Cheesman; 1 ♂ (NHMUK010923471, DNA voucher MTD8254, genitalia on slide TL727 ♂), 1 ♀ (NHMUK010923470, DNA voucher MTD8255, genitalia on slide TL728 ♀), Aneityum Island, Agathis Camp, 1150 ft, 21.vii.1971, leg. G. S. Robinson (NHMUK).
Diagnosis.
Hoploscopa anamesa (Fig. 28 View Figures 19–33 ) display forewing and male genitalia similar to those of H. astrapias . Female genitalia differ from those of H. astrapias in following characters: the antrum is not sclerotised, and the ductus bursae is long and coiled. Corpus bursae and thorn similar to H. astrapias .
Similar species.
Hoploscopa astrapias and H. nauticorum (q.v.).
Description.
Head. Antennae dorsally with brown scales. Proboscis white to pale yellow. Maxillary palpi brown, base and inner side pale brown. Labial palpi brown, ventro-basally pale yellow to white.
Thorax (Fig. 28 View Figures 19–33 ). Collar white. Forewing length: 10-11 mm (♂ & ♀); forewing ground colour brown; basal yellow streak along 1A+2A, abutted by cubital red fascia running up to median area, disrupted by median cubital patch; costal field reddish brown; median discoidal stigma trapezoid, red, edged basally and distally with yellow; median cubital patch thick, streak-like, snow white; post-median patch bean-shaped, red with yellow edges, dorsally abutted by thick snow white streak; postmedian area suffused with red; subterminal line white, not reaching dorsum; subterminal field broadly marked with red; fringes brown. Hindwing pale yellow, bronze toward distal margin. Forelegs brown. Midlegs brown to bronze; tibia medially white. Hindlegs brown to bronze, tibia base dorsally pale yellow.
Male genitalia (N = 1) (Fig. 69 View Figures 64–69 ). Uncus long, slender, with straight lateral margin, apex narrow, tongue-shaped, dorsally with sclerotised bristles. Gnathos projection limited to small ridge. Valva slender, ventral margin nearly straight, dorsal margin convex, apex rounded. Juxta broad, with base rounded, apex weakly sclerotised, blunt. Saccus small, pointing dorsad. Phallus with broad flat spatula-shaped cornutus.
Female genitalia (N = 1) (Fig. 108 View Figures 107–110 ). Anterior apophyses with dorsal protuberance at posterior 1/3. Antrum membranous. Ductus bursae long, coiled. Corpus bursae globular, with posterior half reticulated, anterior half membranous, with weak sclerotisation between thorn and corpus opening. Thorn long and slender, straight, glabrous.
Distribution.
Known from the Fiji (see Remarks), the Aneityum and Tanna islands on Vanuatu, at an altitude of ca. 350 m.
Phylogenetic relationships.
Hoploscopa astrapias is recovered as sister species (BS = 78). See H. astrapias for further remarks.
Remarks.
Nuss (1998) raised H. anamesa from subspecies of H. astrapias to species. He stated that this species occurs in sympatry with H. astrapias on Fiji.
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