Pyrochlora kuklase Viidalepp

Viidalepp, Jaan, 2009, Revision of the genus Pyrochlora Warren, 1895 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Geometrinae), Zootaxa 1989, pp. 55-65 : 59

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.185515

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6213787

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C275F55D-250D-140D-FF10-FD64FDC8F985

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scientific name

Pyrochlora kuklase Viidalepp
status

sp. nov.

Pyrochlora kuklase Viidalepp sp.nov.

Figs. 7, 10 View FIGURES 2 – 11 , 18 View FIGURES 12 – 21 , 34–36 View FIGURES 31 – 39

Type series: Holotype: ɗ, ECUADOR, Napo, Baeza 1700 m, 00°27’09”S, 77°51’17”W, 17.05.2007 (gen. 7952) ( NHMT). Paratypes: 7ɗ1Ψ; 1ɗ, Zamora Chinchipe, Los Equentros, 1460m, 03°48’47”S, 78°36’39”W, 21.04.2007; 2#, Zamora Chinchipe, Los Equentros, 1770m, 03°54’49”S, 78°29’58”W, 22.04.2007 ( CAL); 2ɗ1Ψ, Morona Santiago, Gualaquiza, 1570m, 03°17’58”S, 78°33’28”W, 23.04.2007 (gen. 7992)( CAL); 2#, PERU, Oxapampa 2300 m (gen. 7938) ( NHMT). Holotype deposited in Estonian Museum of Natural History, Tallinn, paratypes in NHMT and CAL.

Measurements: Wing span 22.0–25.0 mm in males, 27 mm in a female, length of antennal pectinations 0.45–0.48 mm in males, 0.25 mm in female.

Diagnosis: Externally the species is characterized by a large, continous, rectangular blackish marking along the anal margin of forewing underside ( Figs. 18, 21 View FIGURES 12 – 21 ). Other species have the ante- and postmedial lines marked by dark transverse lines between the discal cell and hindmargin of the forewing (if enlarged, not covering the origin of vein CuA2). Aedeagus with three bands of short and thin spines dorsally.

Description: Forewing pattern similar to that in P. m a j o rc u l a, hindwing costal area without a concrete yellow mark. Male genitalian armature is relatively massive, aedeagus has long bundles of spiny cornuti dorsally and the sternite A8, although not strongly chitinized, is bilobed terminally ( Figs. 34–36 View FIGURES 31 – 39 ). Quite possibly, this species is pictured by Piñas (2005, Fig. 264, as a female for P. rhanis ).

Biology: Confined to rich tropical mountainous forests at about 1400–2300 m above sea level.

Etymology: The specific name is from Estonian family name Kuklase . Gender masculine.

Distribution: Ecuador; Peru.

CAL

Botanical Survey of India

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Geometridae

Genus

Pyrochlora

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