Carohamilia poam ( Dyar, 1918 ) Naydenov & Yakovlev & Penco, 2021

Naydenov, Artem E., Yakovlev, Roman V. & Penco, Fernando C., 2021, Redescription and review of the Neotropical genus Carohamilia Dyar, 1940 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae: Zeuzerinae), Zootaxa 4985 (4), pp. 557-563 : 560-561

Carohamilia poam ( Dyar, 1918) comb. n.

Figs. 4−5 , 13 , 17

Psychonoctua poam Dyar, 1918: 366-367

Material examined: Type material. Holotype ♂: “ Mexico: Prob. State, Veracruz ”, R. Muller Collector, 43-86, U.S. N.M. Type No. 21315, USNMENT 01198207 ( USNM) ( Fig. 4 ). — Further material. Belize: 1 ♂, Punta Gorda , June 1933, J.J. White, SLIDE NHMUK 010315488, NHMUK 012832455 ( NHMUK) ( Fig. 5 , 13 ) .

Literature records (cited by Schoorl (1990)): Guatemala: 8 ♂: various localities ( NHMUK) .

Diagnosis. The species differs from the other congeners in the following characters:

- the reticulated pattern is expressed throughout all the forewing;

- the dark area on the forewing at its base is poorly expressed;

- the black discal spot on the fore wing is small;

- on the saccular margin of the valve (in the middle third) a trapezoidal process with a wide base.

Distribution. Mexico, Belize, Guatemala ( Schoorl 1990).

Figures

FIGURE 17. Map of distribution of Carohamilia Dyar, 1940.

FIGURES 1−10. Zeuzerinae, adults: 1. Carohamilia masoni, ♂, lectotype, Mexico, Jalapa (USNM); 2. C. masoni, ♂, USA, Texas, Cameron Co. (MWM), (GenPrMWM: 28.629); 3. С. ophelia, ♂, holotype, Guatemala, Cayuga (USNM); 4. C. poam, ♂, holotype, Mexico, Veracruz (USNM); 5. C. poam, ♂, Belize, Punta Gorda (specimen photo NHMUK 012832455); 6. C. terrafirma, ♂, holotype, Costa Rica, Sixola Riv (USNM); 7. C. terrafirma, ♂, Colombia, Muzo, (specimen photo NHMUK 012832454); 8. C. terrafirma, ♀, holotype of Psychonoctua nullifer, Panama, Taboga Isl. (USNM); 9. Schreiteriana lineaeplena, ♂, French Guiana, St. Jean de Maroni, Received from E. Le. Moult (specimen photo NHMUK 012832469), (NHMUK); 10. Psychonoctua personalis, ♂, Cuba, Prov. Holguin de Tanamo (MWM), (GenPrMWM: 28.557).

FIGURES 11−16. Zeuzerinae, male, genitalia: 11. Carohamilia masoni, ♂, USA, Texas, Cameron Co. (GenPrMWM: 28.629); 12. С. ophelia, ♂, holotype, Guatemala, Cayuga (USNM); 13. C. poam, ♂, Belize, Punta Gorda (slide NHMUK 010315488); 14. C. terrafirma, ♂, Colombia, Muzo (slide NHMUK 010315487); 15. Schreiteriana lineaeplena, ♂, French Guiana, St. Jean de Maroni, Received from E. Le. Moult (slide NHMUK 010315500); 16. Psychonoctua personalis, ♂, Cuba, Prov. Holguin de Tanamo (GenPrMWM: 28.557).