Agripialus caparao, Mielke & Grehan & Koike, 2021

Mielke, Carlos G. C., Grehan, John R. & Koike, Ricardo M., 2021, Descriptions of two new genera and six new species of ghost-moths (Lepidoptera Hepialoidea: Hepialidae) from south-eastern and southern Brazil, Zootaxa 5020 (3), pp. 561-580 : 566-567

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5020.3.7

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CCF5FB8C-2552-4299-B0AF-8673230E7609

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5223986

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F17187DF-EE39-FFA6-FF10-EA392768FE93

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Plazi

scientific name

Agripialus caparao
status

sp. nov.

Agripialus caparao sp. n.

( Figs 7 View FIGURES 5−7 , 23 View FIGURES 16−24 , 25 View FIGURES 25−30 , 40, 44 View FIGURES 36−46 , 48 View FIGURES 47−50 )

Type material. Holotype ♀ ( Figs 7a–b View FIGURES 5−7 ): Brazil – Minas Gerais ( MG), Espera Feliz, nr. Pedra Menina ( ES), Casa Queimada , 2.200 m, 19.XI.2017, 20°27’28.57’’S, 41°48’31.46’’W, R. Koike & E. Pereira leg./ 35.884 Col. C. Mielke GoogleMaps / HOLOTYPUS, Agripialus caparao C. Mielke, Grehan & Koike det. 2021/ ( DZUP) .

Paratype (1♂). BRAZIL. Same locality as holotype, 12.XI.2012, Lepidoptera Lab. expedition ( MZSP) .

Diagnosis. Distinguished in the male from its most similar species A. itatiaia sp. n. by the pseudotegumen lacking sclerotisation posteriorly and by the thinner transverse portion anteriorly ( Fig. 48 View FIGURES 47−50 ). The whitish submarginal line on the forewing ( Fig. 7a View FIGURES 5−7 ) is also absent in the A. itatiaia ( Fig. 5a View FIGURES 5−7 ).

Description. Male ( Figs 7 View FIGURES 5−7 , 23 View FIGURES 16−24 , 25 View FIGURES 25−30 , 40, 44 View FIGURES 36−46 , 48 View FIGURES 47−50 ).

Head. Antenna with 37 antennomeres. Basal and second labial palpomere respectively two and four times longer than distal palpomere.

Thorax. Forewing length: 12 mm, wingspan: 26 mm. Wing ornamentation as shown in Fig 7 View FIGURES 5−7 .

Genitalia ( Fig. 48 View FIGURES 47−50 ). Tegumen L-shaped. Saccus U-shaped, antero-posteriorly short, posterior margin slightly notched. Pseudotegumen narrow, anteriorly rectangular, almost transverse, fused mesally, and interiorly projected to articulate with fultura inferior. Fultura inferior subtriangular. Valva setose, distal portion strongly sclerotised as long as basal portion.

Female. Unknown.

Geographical distribution. Known from the type locality only at 2200 m ( Figs 58 View FIGURE 58 , 59 View FIGURES 59−62 ).

Host plants. Unknown.

Etymology. The proposed specific name is homonymous to the national park’s name. It is treated as a noun in the nominative singular in apposition.

MG

Museum of Zoology

DZUP

Universidade Federal do Parana, Colecao de Entomologia Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure

MZSP

Sao Paulo, Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Hepialidae

Genus

Agripialus

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