Laberlia illapai Yakovlev, Naydenov, Penco, 2020

Yakovlev, Roman V., Naydenov, Artem E. & Penco, Fernando C., 2020, New data on Neotropical Carpenter Moths of Subfamily Hypoptinae Neumoegen & Dyar, 1894 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). III. Laberlia - a new genus from Northern and Central Andean Mountains, Ecologica Montenegrina 38, pp. 18-24 : 21-22

2. Laberlia illapai Yakovlev, Naydenov, Penco sp. nov.

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Material examined. Holotype (♂), Ecuador, Morona Santiago, 55 km Road Rio Bamba-Macas , 2°11 ' 04 " S 78°29 ' 51 " W, 3470 m, 24.III.2012, leg. Viktor Sinjaev & Oleg Romanov (Genital preparation №321 coll. Naydenov A.E.) ( ZISP).

Paratypes. Ecuador: 1♂, Morona Santiago, Mendes , 2°44 ' 37 " S 78°18 ' 27 " W, 482 m, 28.XI.2011, leg. Viktor Sinyaev & Oleg Romanov (Genital preparation №330 coll. Naydenov A.E.) ( RYB).

Colombia: 3♂♂, Norte de Santander, near Pamplona , 7°20 ' 23 " N 72°42 ' 04 " W, 3525 m, 24- 26.II.2017, leg. Victor Sinyaev & Cesar Pinilla ( RYB) ; 3♂♂, Norte de Santander, W of Presidente , 7˚00 ' 34 " N 72˚41 ' 00 " W, 3450 m, 17-18.IV.2017, leg. Victor Sinyaev & Cesar Pinilla ( RYB) ; 1♂, Norte de Santander, W of Presidente , 7°00 ' 35 " N 72°41 ' 02 " W, 3500 m, 19-20.IV.2017, leg. Victor Sinyaev & Cesar Pinilla ( RYB) ; 1♂, Districto Capital de Bogota near San Juan 4º01 ' 27 " N 74º20 ' 13 " W, 3400 m, 21- 22.II.2016, leg. Victor Sinyaev, Vadim Zaritzki & Roman Gortovanyi ( RYB) ; 3♂♂, Cundinamarca dept., Guasca, Reserva Natural El Chochal de Siecha. 4°47 ' 38 " N 73°51 ' 5 " W, 3150 m, 1-3.V.2017, leg. Victor Sinyaev & Cesar Pinilla ( RYB) .

Description. Length of fore wing 25−27 mm (holotype – 27 mm). Fore wing light-brown, wide wavy dark-brown band at root area, big dark spot with blurred edges discally (radially), smaller spot at lower edge of wing, more narrow wavy band submarginally, fine dark-brown strokes along costal edge. Hind wing white, semi-transparent, darkened at root area, dark-brown round spot at medial cell. Fringe on all wings mottled, dark-brown at veins, light-yellow between veins.

Male genitalia. Uncus long, basally robust, clavately extended in distal third, apically sharp; tegumen robust; gnathos arms not fused, of medium length, gradually narrowing to apex; valve robust, apically semicircular, costal edge basally with large long harpe (equal to uncus in length) basally very wide, narrowing from base to apex; juxta scaphoid, with pair of long thick lateral processes; saccus small, tapered, phallus shorter than valve, thin, slightly curved in medium third, vesica aperture in dorso-apical position, about ¼ of phallus in length, vesica without cornuti.

Female genitalia. Unknown.

Diagnosis. The new species is mostly close to L. bellaria , from which it clearly differs in the darker pattern on the fore wing, the wider base of the harpe, and the semicircular apex of the valve.

Distribution. Ecuador (Morona-Santiago Province), Colombia (Norte de Santander and Cundinamarca Department).

Etymology. Illapa (according to Inca mythology) was the god of lightning and rain.

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Figure 8. Map of Laberlia species distribution.

Figures 1−4. Laberlia, adults: 1. L. bellaria (Dognin, 1911) comb. nov., male, holotype, Colombia, Quindío Department, Páramo, 3800 m (USNM); 2. L. bellaria (Dognin, 1911) comb. nov., male, Colombia, Tolima, Cerro Bravo, La Libia, 5°06′21"N 75°16′22"W, 3000 m, 03-04.XI.2015 (RYB); 3. L. illapai sp. nov., male, holotype, Ecuador, Morona Santiago, 55 km Road Rio Bamba-Macas, 2°11'04"S 78°29'51"W, 3470 m, 24.III.2012 (ZISP); 4. L. apusorum sp. nov., male, holotype, Peru, La Libertad, Pataz prov., S of Tayabamba, 3840 m, 08°23.18'S 77°16.39'W, 17.XII.2016 (ZISP).

Figures 5−7. Laberlia, male genitalia: 5. L. bellaria (Dognin, 1911) comb. nov., male, Colombia, Tolima, Cerro Bravo, La Libia, 5°06′21"N 75°16′22"W, 3000 m, 03-04.XI.2015 (Genital preparation №142 coll. Naydenov A.E.) (RYB); 6. L. illapai sp. nov., male, holotype, Ecuador, Morona Santiago, 55 km Road Rio Bamba-Macas, 2°11'04"S 78°29'51"W, 3470 m, 24.III.2012 (Genital preparation №321 coll. Naydenov A.E.) (ZISP); 7. L. apusorum sp. nov., male, holotype, Peru, La Libertad, Pataz prov., S of Tayabamba, 3840 m, 08°23.18'S 77°16.39'W, 17.XII.2016 (Genital preparation №331 coll. Naydenov A.E.) (ZISP).