Cynea rope, Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2022

Zhang, Jing, Cong, Qian, Shen, Jinhui & Grishin, Nick V., 2022, Taxonomic changes suggested by the genomic analysis of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera), Insecta Mundi 2022 (921), pp. 1-135 : 62

Cynea rope Grishin, new species

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Definition. Evans (1955) misidentified Cobalus corope Herrich-Schäffer, 1869 (type locality not stated), as detailed above. Hence, because it has no synonyms, the taxon Evans identified as Cynea corope is left without a name. Evans provided its description in a form of identification key, which is adopted here: this new species keys to L. 7.15 in Evans (1955). Differs from its relatives by a combination of the following characters: wings dark-brown, forewing with a tuft of scales in cell CuA 2 -1A+2A above the brand and a tuft in cell 1A+2A; small hyaline forewing spots: two parallel elongated spots in forewing discal cell, a tiny one in cell CuA 2 -1A+2A, narrow in cell CuA 1 -CuA 2, round and smaller in cell M 3 -CuA 1, and dot in cells R 5 -M 1; hindwing largely unmarked in the holotype; head and thorax with greenish scales; gnathos shorter than uncus, uncus slightly longer than wide, with arms about the same length as gnathos arms, valva twice as long as wide, harpe moderately extended caudad, with a broad dorsal tooth by ampulla, irregularly serrated along the dorsal margin near the tooth, aedeagus with elaborations at the distal end. The holotype is a male from Nicaragua: Chontales, collected by T. Belt, from Godman-Salvin collection, illustrated in Fig. 12c,d and deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, UK (BMNH), its genitalia are glued to a card labeled R.8 and pinned under the specimen. The holotype identification label will be mailed to curators of the collection to be placed on the holotype.

Etymology. The name is the last two syllables of corope to keep the former name association with this species. The name is a noun in apposition.

Figures

Figure 12. Specimens of Hesperiinae. a) Decinea colombiana Grishin, sp. n. holotype dorsal; b) ibid. ventral; c) Cynea rope Grishin, sp. n. holotype dorsal; d) ibid. ventral; e) Hesperia dido Plötz, 1882 neotype dorsal; f) ibid. ventral; g) Godman’s copy of an unpublished Plötz’s illustration of H. dido, left/right dorsal/ventral, no. 577; h) ibid. no. 577a; i) Lerema lucius Grishin, sp. n. holotype dorsal; j) ibid. ventral; k) Godman’s copy of an unpublished Plötz’s illustration of Hesperia lochius Plötz, 1882, left/right dorsal/ventral, no. 576; l) H. lochius illustration (left-right inverted for comparison) from the plate 187c[5] in Draudt (1921-1924), ventral; m) Cymaenes laureolus (Schaus, 1913) ventral, Panama: Cocoli, 4-Oct-1962, leg. G. B. Small, NVG-7250 [USNM]; n) ibid. Mexico: Veracruz, Coatepec, Jun-1917, NVG-15111G01 [AMNH]; o) Lerodea sonex Grishin, sp. n. holotype dorsal; p) ibid. ventral; q) Metiscus goth Grishin, sp. n. holotype dorsal; r) Godman’s copy of an unpublished Plötz’s illustration of Apaustus vicinus Plötz, 1884, left/right dorsal/ventral, no. 764; s) specimen of Corticea from the Staudinger and Bang-Haas collection bearing an old identification label “Padraona vicinus”, NVG-18096C08, dorsal; t) ibid. ventral. Specimen images are to scale and missing data are in the text. Photographs a–d (by Bernard Hermier) and g, h, k, r (by N.V.G.) are © of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum London and are made available under Creative Commons License 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), and photographs o, p are © of Jim Brock, used with permission.