Chimoptesis albomixta, Razowski, Józef & Becker, Vitor Osmar, 2015

Razowski, Józef & Becker, Vitor Osmar, 2015, Systematics and faunistics of Neotropical Eucosmini. 1. Chimoptesis Powell, 1964 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae), Zootaxa 3941 (2), pp. 204-220 : 210

Chimoptesis albomixta , sp. n.

Figs 22 , 44

Diagnosis. Chimoptesis albomixta is closely related to C. castanescens but differs from the latter in having a cream white costal ground colour, a concave posterior edge of the sterigma, a longer cingulum, and smaller signa.

Description. Wing span 18 mm. Male: Unknown. Female: Head and thorax brownish. Forewing slender; termen somewhat oblique, concave medially. Ground colour whitish in median part of costal area, otherwise suffused brown; strigulation brown; ocellar area indistinct; terminal third of wing tinted rust. Markings brown, weak; postbasal fascia almost complete. Cilia rust brown. Hindwing greyish white, tinged brown in distal half. Cilia concolorous with wing base. Genitalia ( Fig. 22 ) with posterior part of sterigma broad, distal edge concave; sclerite of antrum short, membranous medioproximally; folds of subgenital sternite slender, straight; cingulum long; blades of signa small, slender.

Holotype female: " Mexico: D[istrito] F[ederal], 2600 m, 24.VIII. 1981, Becker Col; Col. Becker 41854"; GS 859 WZ.

Etymology. The name refers to the colouration of the median part of costal area of the forewing; Latin: albus—white, mixta—mixed.

Figures

FIGURES 20 – 26. Female genitalia of Chimoptesis. 20, Chimoptesis dentitia (GS 849 WZ), 21, Chimoptesis castanescens (GS 843 WZ), 22, Chimoptesis albomixta, (GS 859 WZ), 23, Chimoptesis cornigera (GS 1346 WZ), 24, Chimoptesis mitrion (GS 1343 WZ), 25, Chimoptesis zoquiapana (GS 829 WZ), 26, Chimoptesis rufobrunnea (GS 856 WZ).

FIGURES 43 – 50. Adults of Chimoptesis. 43, Chimoptesis castanescens (paratype female), 44, Chimoptesis albomixta, (holotype female), 45, Chimoptesis cornigera (holotype male), 46, Chimoptesis cornigera (paratype female), 47, Chimoptesis mitrion (holotype female), 48, Chimoptesis setoses (holotype male), 49, Chimoptesis tamaulipasia (holotype male), 50, Chimoptesis juniptesis (holotype male).