Boalda pulcherrima ( Köhler, 1947 ) Kohler, 1947

Goldstein, Paul Z., 2017, Review of the enigmatic genus Boalda with transfer of pulcherrima Köhler from Nephelistis and description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), Zootaxa 4276 (1), pp. 139-144 : 140

Boalda pulcherrima ( Köhler, 1947) NEW COMBINATION

Figs 3 –5, 11a, 11b

Material examined. 1♂, 1♀, representing the types: Tucumàn, Argentina, R. Schreiter Coll., USNM Slide 148042 ♀ (USNMENT 00151333); Tucumàn, Dognin Collection , Phuphena, July 15.3.13, 148043 ♂ (USNMENT 00151332).

Diagnosis. B. pulcherrima is most similar to the new species B. poguei and B. solisae (see below), but differs from both in the configuration of the male valves and shading of the hindwing.

Description. Forewing length 10.0 mm; two pairs of hind tibial spurs; dorsal tuft of dark scales on first abdominal segment; abdominal scales pinkish with white apical banding. Male genitalia (Figs 11a, b). Valves expanded apically with secondary flap on ventral surface overlapping valve for less than 75 percent of the valve area between the base of the clasper to its apex; inner margins of valves with lobes produced posteromedially towards juxta; valves setose apically, setae short; clasper finger-like, arising medially, as long as the width of the valve at its narrowest point; lateral margin of valve sparsely setose, setae longer than those at apex; saccus blunt; pleural sclerite S-shaped; uncus of uniform width; vesica with sclerotized basal cap-shaped plate bearing ~8 denticles. Female genitalia ( Fig. 14). Papillae anales separate, oblong; ductus bursae faintly sclerotized posteriad in wide collicular band, ductus roughly as long as the distance from the tip of the papillae to the antrum; corpus bursae without signa; a single appendix bursae arising from below the attachment to the ductus.

Distribution. Paraguay: Asunción.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Boalda pulcherrima, cotype.