Anopinella ophiodes (Walsingham, 1914)

Brown, John W. & Adamski, David, 2003, Systematic revision of Anopinella Powell (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Euliini) and phylogenetic analysis of the Apolychrosis group of genera, Zootaxa 200, pp. 1-94 : 13-14

Anopinella ophiodes (Walsingham, 1914)

Figs. 3 , 58

Tortrix ophiodes Walsingham 1914: 290 .

Anopinella ophiodes ; Powell 1986: 394; Powell et al. 1995: 142.

Diagnosis. Anopinella ophiodes shares a similar shaped valva with A. cartagoa , but can be distinguished from the latter by the much shorter uncus; narrower socii; laterally flattened, distal lobes of the gnathos with an irregularly serrate outer margin; and long hair­like microtrichiae of the vesica of the aedeagus. Anopinella ophiodes lacks the ventral, subapical lobe of the gnathos present in A. cartagoa . Putative autapomorphies for A. ophiodes include the dorsally narrowed tegumen and the unusual microtrichiae of the vesica.

Redescription. Head: Frontoclypeus and vertex grayish white; labial palpus with outer surface pale gray intermixed with reddish brown, inner surface white. Antenna with scape brown intermixed with pale brown; basal 8­10 flagellomeres brown; distal flagellomeres gray.

Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum with grayish yellow scales, many tipped with reddish brown. Forewing (Fig. 58) length 6.1 mm (n = 1); incomplete basal fascia reddish brown intermixed with grayish brown; costal blotch brown, dark brown on posterior end; basal fascia and costal blotch separated by a yellowish brown oblique band demarcating costal blotch, recurved from distal costa through subapical area to tornus, encircling an elliptical ocellus, except on posterior end; costal blotch subtriangular, with a small, oblong, white spot near posterior end; area between CuP and dorsum pale reddish brown; apical area brown; submarginal band dark brown. Fringe with inner portion brown, outer portion pale brown. Hindwing grayish brown.

Abdomen: Male genitalia ( Fig. 3 ; drawn from BMNH slide 5799; n = 1) with tegumen narrowed dorsally; uncus relatively short, only slightly curved near apical 0.33. Socius moderately long, ca. equal in length to basal portion of gnathos arms. Gnathos with a pair of laterally flattened, distal lobes, with irregularly serrate outer margins; ventral part of lobes narrowly expanded. Valva moderately short, setose from cucullus to ca. 0.65 distoventral margin; costa nearly straight from subbasal curve; ventral margin with basal portion gently curved, distoventral margin slightly recurved to apicoventral angle, forming a broad cucullus; cucullus densely setose submarginally. Phallus simple, vesica densely microtrichiate, with slightly larger spines. Female unknown.

Holotype, ɗ, Guatemala, Retalhulea, Las Mercedes, 3000' [923 m], Oct­Nov 1880, G. C. Champion. Deposited in BMNH.

Figures

FIGURES 3 ­ 4. Male genitalia of Anopinella, valvae spread, aedeagus removed. 3, A. ophiodes; 4, A. cartagoa.