Triplocania otunquimbayaensis n. sp. Female

(Figs 341–346)

Diagnosis. Forewings with a transverse pigmented band, from anterior end of pterostigma to cu1-cu2-a1; areola postica tall, with narrow apex, M3 forked twice, resulting in four branches. Ninth sternum wide, cup-shaped, with two rounded processes posteriorly, as illustrated (Fig. 346). Related to T. sarriae n. sp., described below, but differing from it in the forking of M3, in the shape of the areola postica, and in the shape of the ninth sternum (compare Figs 341 and 346, with Figs 347 and 352).

Color (in 80% ethanol). Body pale brown. Compound eyes ochre; ocelli hyaline, with ochre centripetal crescents. Head pattern (Fig. 343); maxillary palps pale brown. Thorax brown, tergal lobes of meso- and metathorax brown, with cream spots. Tibiae and tarsi brown; mid and hind- coxae, trochanters and femora pale brown, fore- coxae with brown wide spot. Forewing pattern (Fig. 341). Hindwing almost hyaline, with pale brown distal band as illustrated (Fig. 342). Abdomen cream, with small subcuticular pale brown spots. Subgenital plate pale cream, with pigmented area V-shaped, pale brown. IX sternum pale brown, lateral dark brown bands; gonapophyses pale brown.

Morphology. As in diagnosis, plus the following: Head: H/MxW: 1.68; H/D: 2.61, IO/MxW: 0.64, MxW/IO: 2.42. Vertex slightly emarginate, almost in line with the upper border of the compound eyes. Outer cusp of lacinial tip broad, with five denticles. Mx4/Mx2: 1.42. Forewings (Fig. 341): L/W: 2.58, pterostigma: lp/wp: 5.92; areola postica high, la/ha: 1.86, Cu1a concave. Hindwings (Fig. 342): l/w: 3.00. Subgenital plate (Fig. 345) triangular, densely setose. Gonapophyses (Fig. 346): v1 elongate, about 0.7 the length of v2 +3, tapered, margins, particularly distally, with abundant short setae; v2 +3 wide proximally, a row of six short setae on v2, distal process long, straight, acuminate, with microsetae. Paraprocts triangular, with abundant setae in the apical third, particularly in the outer margin; sensory fields with 22 trichobothria on basal rosettes (Fig. 344). Epiproct wide, triangular, with two lateral and two apical macrosetae, other setae as illustrated (Fig. 344).

Measurements. FW: 6000, HW: 4125, F: 1537, T: 2500, t1: 1100, t2: 100, t3: 225, Mx4: 400, ctt1: 35, f1: 1112, IO: 450, D: 455, d: 320, IO/d: 1.41, PO: 0.70.

Material studied. Holotype female. COLOMBIA. Risaralda, Flora and Fauna Sanctuary Otún Quimbaya, Cuchilla Camino, 4º43’N: 75º35’W, 2050 m., 15–30.II.2003, IAvH. G. López. MAH .

Etymology. The specific name refers to the Otún Quimbaya Flora and Fauna Sanctuary, in the Central Cordillera of the Colombian Andes.