Hellinsia staskalnoii Kovtunovich et Ustjuzhanin, 2022

Kovtunovich, V. N., Ustjuzhanin, P. Ya., Sinyaev, V. V. & Streltzov, A. N., 2022, New species of plume moths (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) from Colombia, Russian Entomological Journal 31 (2), pp. 172-178 : 176-177

Hellinsia staskalnoii Kovtunovich et Ustjuzhanin , sp.n.

Figs 12–14 .

TYPE MATERIAL: Holotype, ♂, ( ZISP, gen.pr. Nr. 1969), COLOMBIA, Putumayo Municipio San Francisco Antenas on Bosque Siberia , 01°08´45´´N, 76°50´43´´W, 22–26.IV. 2018, 2940m, V . Sinyaev & V. Gromenko leg. ; Paratype: 1 ♀, ( ZISP, gen.pr. Nr. 1970), COLOMBIA, Cundinamarca dept., Bosque , La Guajira, 04°47´34´´N, 73°46´33´´W, 11–13.XII. 2015, 2911m, V. Sinyaev leg. ; 1 ex., ( CUK), same data as holotype .

DESCRIPTION. External characters. Head, thorax and tegulae light-green. Labial palpi pale-yellow, short, relatively wide, equal to eye diameter in length. Antennae light-brown. Wingspan 20–23 mm (in holotype, 20 mm). Fore wings light-green. Distinct triangular spot at cleft base. Brown stroke on first lobe, next to apex. Costal edge darkened with brown scales. Oblique, wide transverse stroke on fore wing medially. Hind wings unicolorous, light-grey. Hind legs greyish-yellow, with portions of dark-brown scales at bases of spurs and on chela.

Male genitalia. Valves asymmetric, left significantly wider than right. Saccular process on left valve thin, long, arched and narrowing to end. Sacculus on right valve shaped as narrow thin long ribbon. Anellus arms basally very wide, distally narrowing, right arm significantly longer than left. Saccus arched. Uncus narrow, thin, slightly arched. Aedeagus almost straight, medially slightly curved, distally with tiny needle-like cornuti.

Female genitalia. Papillae anales oval. Posterior apophyses thin, straight. Antrum relatively long, goblet-like, smoothly narrowing to confluence of short ductus. Bursa copulatrix oval, without signa. Ductus seminalis narrow, relatively long.

DIAGNOSIS. In the male genitalia, in the different width of the valves and in the shape of the saccular process on the left valve, the new species is similar to Hellinsia viridia Gielis, 2014 , but differs in the wide anellus arms, in the saccular process curved inwards and narrowing to end, in the long aedeagus and totally another color of the wings.

Flight period: April, December.

DISTRIBUTION. Colombia.

ETYMOLOGY. At the request of V. Sinyaev, the species was named in memory of his friend´s son, Stanislav Kalnoi, who untimely passed away under tragic circumstances; he covered the mine that exploded on the firing field, with his body.

Figures

Figs 12–14. Hellinsia staskalnoii, sp.n.: 12 — adult (Holotype, ZISP); 13 — male genitalia (Holotype, ZISP, gen.pr. Nr. 1969); 14 — female genitalia (Paratype, ZISP, gen.pr. Nr. 1970). Рис. 12–14. Hellinsia staskalnoii, sp.n.: 12 — имаго (голотип, ZISP); 13 — гениталии самца (голотип, ZISP, gen.pr. Nr. 1969); 14 — гениталии самки (паратип, ZISP, gen.pr. Nr. 1970).