Daedalma dinias granadillas Pyrcz & Willmott, 2011

Pyrcz, Tomasz W., Greeney, Harold F., Willmott, Keith R. & Wojtusiak, Janusz, 2011, 2898, Zootaxa 2898, pp. 1-68 : 13-14

Daedalma dinias granadillas Pyrcz & Willmott , n. ssp.

( Figs. 2A, 8E)

Material examined: ECUADOR: HOLOTYPE male: Morona-Santiago, Gualaceo-Limón road, 2200–2300 m, X.2002, I. Aldaz leg., red, rectangular label saying : Holotype, MZUJ; PARATYPES (6 males) : 2 males, Morona-

Santiago, Gualaceo-Limón road, La Antena, 2100 m, 03.I.2004, T. Pyrcz leg., TWP; 1 male : Morona-Santiago, Gualaceo-Chigüinda Km 51 (3 o 12’S, 78 o 47’W), 3150 m, 15–16.I.2004, M. Bollino and F. Vitale leg., MBLI; 2 males : Morona-Santiago, km 17 Chigüinda-Gualaceo rd. , 2670 m, 14.X.2007, K. Willmott leg., FLMNH; 1 male : Granadillas, E. Ecuador, Buckley, Godman-Salvin coll. 1904-1, BMNH .

Description: MALE ( Fig. 2A): Head, thorax and abdomen: not differing from nominate subspecies. Wings: FW length: 26–27 mm, mean: 26.7 mm, n=3. FWD ground colour blackish brown; slightly reddish orange patch much smaller than in Colombian subspecies, similar to emma but more extensive, oval, entering discal cell and touching vein Cu2, with a somewhat irregular, dentate distal edge; HWD ground colour blackish brown, same as in other subspecies. FWV median patch bright orange, occasionally slightly suffused with blackish brown scales, but much "cleaner" than in D. d. emma. HWV ground colour chocolate brown, similarly patterned to emma. Genitalia ( Fig. 8E): Uncus slightly thinner and longer than in salmoni; saccus shallower; distal tip on valvae pointing forward; otherwise similar to other subspecies.

FEMALE: Unknown.

Etymology: The name is derived from that of the village of Granadillas, an old collecting locality near the site where three paratypes were collected on the Chigüinda-Gualaceo road. This village is itself named after the "granadilla", a bright orange fruit in the genus Passiflora , similar in colour to the forewing markings of this subspecies.

Remarks: D. dinias granadillas is found on the eastern slopes of the Andes in south-central Ecuador (Morona- Santiago). It has yet to be found further south, but its presence in Zamora-Chinchipe is possible. This subspecies is found at similar elevationas to D. d. emma, though it has been recorded exceptionally as high as 3150 m.