Amorbia potosiana Phillips & Powell, 2007

Phillips-Rodríguez, Eugenie & Powell, Jerry A., 2007, Phylogenetic relationships, systematics, and biology of the species of Amorbia Clemens (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Sparganothini)., Zootaxa 1670 (1670), pp. 1-109 : 26

11. Amorbia potosiana Phillips & Powell , new species

Figs. 29, 72, 134

DIAGNOSIS. This species is superficially similar to A. chiapas , but A. potosiana can be distinguished by the light scaling on the frons and the presence of struts of the socii.

DESCRIPTION. MALE. FW length 12.4 mm (n = 1). HEAD: Frons convex, white scaled, vertex smooth, straw yellow. Antenna with pale brown scaling. Labial palpus 2.0X length of antennal space, junction of segment II and III an oblique angle, dark golden honey-colored laterally, paler on inner surface. THORAX: Dorsum smooth scaled, brown, tegula lighter. FW ground color light brown, subbasal, median, and subterminal fasciae dark brown, well defined. Costal fold absent. HW beige with apex light brown. ABDOMEN: Pale brown. Genitalia as in Fig. 72 (slide # EPR10, VBC, Mexico, Nuevo León, Potosí; n = 1). Uncus extending beyond socii. Struts of the socii present. Transtilla rectangular, spines distributed evenly. Valva subrectangular. Sacculus sclerotized, emarginate, extending beyond margin of valva as small terminal lobe. Aedeagus 0.95X length of valva, slender, mostly straight, curved in distal 0.25.

FEMALE. Unknown.

TYPE MATERIAL. Holotype: Male: MEXICO: NUEVO LEON: Cerro Potosí , 28.vi.1997, V. O. Becker ( VBC).

DISTRIBUTION AND BIOLOGY. This species is known only from the Cerro Potosí, Nuevo León, Mexico, at 2000 m elevation. Immatures and the female are unknown .

ETYMOLOGY. The species epithet is derived from the type locality.