Carmenta plaumanni Eichlin

Eichlin, Thomas D. & Kinnee, Scott A., 2002, Brazilian Sesiidae in the collection of the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany (Lepidoptera), Zootaxa 108, pp. 1-15 : 12-13

Carmenta plaumanni Eichlin , sp. nov.

Diagnosis. Wing length: 6­8.5 mm. The wings are clear. On most specimens the abdomen has narrow yellow bands on all segments except the third. Underneath, the abdomen is mostly pale yellow to white on all but segment three. The antennae have some yellow powdering toward the tip.

Description. Male ( Figs. 4 & 5 ). Head with vertex brown black; occipital fringe dorsally yellow with some brown black mixed, becoming pale yellow to white laterally; front white laterally, labial palpus smoothly scaled, yellow with brown black variously laterally; antenna with yellow powdering variously distally. Thorax brown black, narrow subdorsal yellow stripe, yellow patch beneath wings. On most specimens examined, abdomen brown black with narrow yellow bands on posterior edge of all segments except segment 3; ventrally pale yellow to white on segments 1, 2 and most of 4­7, segment 3 brown black; anal tuft wedge shaped, brown black. Legs mostly brown black with some yellow on forecoxa and somewhat around tibiae near spur pairs. Forewing hyaline with narrow brown black apical margins and narrow discal spot, perhaps some yellow in thin line on costal margin; ventrally with light powdering on costal and apical margins on well marked specimens. Hindwing hyaline. Genitalia ( Fig. 19 ) with bare area of valvae extensive on posterior half; saccus about one­half length of valvae.

Female: Like the male, but with yellow powdering dorsally on forewing on apical margin between veins and ventrally powdering more strongly than on male. Abdomen ventrally yellow, not white as on male; anal tuft brush­like, medially with some white and yellow scales. Head with occipital fringe laterally yellow. Genitalia ( Fig. 20 ) with antrum elongate, straight, sclerotized except where constricted near middle; ductus bursae swollen, sclerotized, transversly wrinkled then becoming membranous, more slender, longitudinally wrinkled; corpus bursae globose, without distinct signum.

Host plant. Unknown.

Distribution. BRAZIL: Sta. Catarina, Nova Teutonia; Parana, Curitiba; Rio de Janiero, Itatiaya.

Types. plaumanni : Holotype male ­ Brasilien: Nova Teutonia, 27 11 B 52 23 L, 15.10.1937, Fritz Plaumann; F. Plaumann Colln. (USNM).

Allotype female ­ same as Holotype except: 4.(?).1940 (USNM).

Paratypes (12 males): (10) same as Holotype except dates of capture ranging from 1936­ 1944 and 2 taken in 1968 (8 in PMY, 2 in USNM); (1) 52 (in red circle), Itatiaya, I.27, Saarbrucken (IGUS); (1) CURITYBA­PARANA, (Parolim), 8.X.1939, Coll, Clarentianc (UCR).

Etymology. This species, plaumanni , is so designated in recognition of Fritz Plaumann ( Fig. 25 ) who collected most of the type series. Moreover, a great many specimens of several insect orders were accumulated by Mr. Plaumann and are currently found in collections around the world, especially in the Western Hemisphere and Europe.

Remarks. Fritz Plaumann s material comes mostly from the heavily forested region of the Rio Uruguay near the boundary of the states of Sta. Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul (see translation of Plaumann by Calvert 1956), as is indicated above on the specimen labels of most of the type series. On the male paratype in the IGUS, the abdominal banding dorsally is obscure or lacking.

Figures

FIGURE 25. Fritz Plaumann, December 29, 1939 (photo provided by C. S. Papp).

FIGURES 1 - 6. Adult clearwing moths. 1, Carmenta aerosa, male, Lectotype; 2, C. asema, female, Holotype; 3, Synanthedon martenii, female, Holotype;; 4, C. plaumanni, male, Holotype (dorsal aspect); 5, C. plaumanni, male, Holotype (ventral aspect); 6, C. laticraspedontis, female, Holotype (dorsal aspect, abdomen removed);

FIGURES 14 ­ 19. Male gentialia of clearwing moths. 14, Carmenta angarodes; 15, C. asema; 16, C. leptosoma, Paratype; 17, C. aerosa; 18, C. splendens, Holotype; 19, C. plaumanni, Paratype.

FIGURES 20 ­ 24. Female genitalia of clearwing moths. 20, Carmenta plaumanni, Allotype; 21, C. asema; 22, C. laticraspedontis, Holotype; 23, C. angarodes; 24, C. splendens.