Daedalma dinias radfordi Pyrcz & Willmott, 2011

Pyrcz, Tomasz W., Greeney, Harold F., Willmott, Keith R. & Wojtusiak, Janusz, 2011, 2898, Zootaxa 2898, pp. 1-68 : 14

Daedalma dinias radfordi Pyrcz & Willmott , n. ssp.

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Material examined: HOLOTYPE male: Ecuador, Zamora-Chinchipe, Yangana-Valladolid rd., Reserva Tapichalaca , "mule trail arriba", 2575–2650 m, 4°29.40'S, 79°7.50'W, 12.IX.2007, J. Radford leg., FLMNH / MGCL# 143211 , red, rectangular label saying : Holotype, FLMNH ; PARATYPE male: Ecuador, Zamora-Chinchipe, Yangana-Valladolid rd., Reserva Tapichalaca, Loma Cruz Grande , 2650m, 4°29.22'S, 79°7.49'W, 14.IX.2007, J. Radford leg. (to be deposited in MECN) .

Description: MALE ( Fig. 2B): Head, thorax and abdomen: not differing from nominate subspecies. Wings: FW length: 28 mm, n=1. FWD ground colour blackish brown, similar to other subspecies; broad, oval median band in middle of wing from near anterior edge discal cell to within 2 mm of distal margin, larger and more elongate than in D. d. granadillas (mean ratio length/width band 2.0 [n=2] in radfordi, 1.75 [n=2] in granadillas), slightly paler than in D. d. emma HWD ground colour blackish brown, as in other subspecies. FWV median patch bright orange and "clean" of brown scales, as in D. d. granadillas, but thus differing from D. d. emma, extending to broadly terminate at anterior edge discal cell, thus differing from D. d. granadillas in which band becomes diffuse and peters out in middle of discal cell. HWV ground colour predominantly chocolate brown, similarly patterned to granadillas and emma. Genitalia (not illustrated): uncus slightly shorter and broader than in granadillas, posterior tip valva more up-turned, otherwise similar to granadillas.

FEMALE: Unknown.

Etymology: This subspecies is named for James Radford, the collector of the only known specimens, whose intrepid lepidopterological explorations of the Reserva Tapichalaca and other Ecuadorian cloud forest reserves have resulted in important distributional data and several new taxa.

Remarks: D. dinias radfordi is known to date only from the eastern slopes of the Andes in southern Ecuador, and the type specimens represent the most southerly known records for this species. It apparently occurs elevationally parapatrically above D. boliviana peruviana , which is abundant in the same forest reserve from 2100–2400 m. Based on the ranges of other cloud forest pronophilines, this subspecies may also occur in the upper headwaters of the Río Zamora and perhaps south in the Cordillera de Lagunillas, near the Peruvian border.

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