Hypatopa dolo Adamski

Adamski, David, 2013, Review of the Blastobasinae of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Blastobasidae), Zootaxa 3618 (1), pp. 1-223 : 97-98

Hypatopa dolo Adamski , new species

( Figs. 165–166 , 369 , Map 32)

Diagnosis.— Hypatopa dolo is similar to H. cyane and H. plebis in facies but differs from the latter two by having a more narrowly rounded apex of the uncus; and a more moderately curved inwardly apical process of the ventral part of the valva. H. dolo also has a straight phallus; a moderately curved sclerite of the phallus; and an anellus that is setose on apical 1/2, that are lacking in H. cyane and H. plebis .

Description.—Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus pale brown. Outer and inner surfaces of labial palpus dark brown with white scales along apical margins of segments 1–2, and on apical part of terminal segment. Antennal scape pale brown intermixed with few brownish-gray scales tipped with pale grayish brown, pecten brown, flagellum grayish brown. Proboscis pale grayish brown.

MAP 32. Distribution of Hypatopa dolo (●) and H. cyane (˔).

Thorax: Tegula with grayish-brown scales tipped with pale grayish brown on basal 1/3, pale brown on apical 2/ 3; mesonotum pale brown. Legs dark brown intermixed with pale grayish-brown scales near midsegments and apical margins of tarsomeres. Forewing ( Fig. 369 ): Length 4.6 mm (n = 1), pale brown intermixed with brownishorange and brown scales; submedian fascia faint; cell with three spots, one near middle, two on apical end along crossvein [spots within cell rubbed]; marginal spots brown. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Translucent pale brown gradually darkening to apex.

Abdomen: Male genitalia ( Figs. 165–166 ): Uncus narrowed from widened base, narrowly rounded apically, straight, sparsely setose, shorter than width of anal opening. Gnathos, narrow band, confluent with tegumen, ventroposterior margin narrowly emarginate mesially. Sockets of tergal setae not extending beyond midlength of tegumen. Valva divided; ventral part basally protracted inwardly, somewhat parallelsided, gradually narrowing to inwardly curved spinelike apical process; process setose on outer surface, planate on inner surface; ventral margin slightly upturned beyond middle, forming narrow fold, to near setose lobe at base of apical process; dorsal part with apical portion of costa extending dorsolaterally, forming setose digitate process; basal ridge of digitate process extending ventrally, fusing with dorsolateral ridge of proximal flange; flange subellipsoid, bearing sparse microtrichiae on apicodiagonal 1/2, and hairlike setae on basodiagonal 1/2; margin shallowly crenulate, sparsely setose. Juxta bandlike. Vinculum semicircular. Phallus and sclerite of phallus shorter than valva; phallus straight, sclerite of phallus shallowly sigmoid-shaped; anellus near 1/2 length of phallus, gradually narrowing apically to rounded apex, setose on apical 2/3, with pair of setae along lateral margins near base. Female Genitalia: Unknown.

Holotype, 3, “Est[ación] Las Pailas, P[arque] N[acional] de la Vieja, Prov[incia] Guana[caste], COSTA RICA, 800 m, 10–13 Mar [zo] 1994, D. Garcia, L-N-306300, 388600, “INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI001, 738503 [barcode label], “INBio, 3 Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 2136 [yellow label].

Distribution (Map 32). Hypatopa dolo is known from one collecting site in northwestern Costa Rica on the western most part of the Cordillera de Guanacaste.

Etymology. The specific epithet dolo is derived from the Latin meaning, a pike.

Figures

FIGURES 165 – 170. Male genitalia of Blastobasinae. 165 – 166, Hypatopa dolo (slide 2136). 167 – 168, Hypatopa cyane (slide 2398). 169 – 170, Hypatopa manus (slide 2566).

FIGURES 368 – 375. Imagos of Blastobasinae. 368, Hypatopa plebis, holotype. 369, Hypatopa dolo, holotype. 370, Hypatopa cyane, holotype. 371, Hypatopa manus, holotype. 372, Hypatopa caepae, holotype. 373, Hypatopa cotytto, holotype. 374, Hypatopa lucina, holotype. 375, Hypatopa scobis, holotype.