Daedalma dinias leticia Pyrcz, 2011

Pyrcz, Tomasz W., Greeney, Harold F., Willmott, Keith R. & Wojtusiak, Janusz, 2011, 2898, Zootaxa 2898, pp. 1-68 : 11-12

Daedalma dinias leticia Pyrcz , n. ssp.

( Figs. 1C, 8C)

Material examined: COLOMBIA: HOLOTYPE male: Depto. de Cauca, between Leticia & Puracé, E. slopes, Cent. Cordillera, 2650 m, 10.VIII.1979, red, rectangular label saying : Holotype, BMNH; PARATYPES (2 males) : 1 male: same data as the holotype but 2650–2700 m, BMNH ; 1 male: same data but 11.VIII.1979, BMNH .

Description: MALE ( Fig. 1C): Head, thorax and abdomen: not differing from nominate subspecies. Wings: FW (length: 27–28 mm, mean: 27,3 mm, n=3). FWD ground colour blackish brown; oblique patch medium orange with a light reddish shade, same colour as in salmoni, but shorter, not reaching costal vein, ending in mid-discal cell. HWD uniform blackish brown. FWV median patch orange, slightly lighter than on dorsal surface with a diffused upper edge. HWV not differing noticeably from nominate subspecies or salmoni. Genitalia ( Fig. 8C): Uncus slightly shorter than in other subspecies; saccus extremely long, longer than in other subspecies, even though long saccus is a distinctive character of D. dinias ; valvae with a prominent apical hook curved upwards similarly to salmoni and nominate, while same structure points distally in emma; otherwise similar to other subspecies.

FEMALE: So far unknown.

Etymology: This subspecies is named after the town of Leticia, near the type locality.

Remarks: D. dinias leticia is so far known only from the types collected by Michael Adams on the eastern slopes of the Puracé volcano massif, in the upper valley of the Río Magdalena. Elevational data indicate similar ecological preferences to salmoni. Its range likely does not extend much farther north, as in the Tolima range it is replaced by salmoni. So far, no specimens of D. dinias have been collected in the Huíla massif. The southern distributional limits remain to be determined, given the wide geographic gap between this and D. dinias emma . A more thorough sampling in the area east of Pasto and Tulcán would be most informative.