Paromphacodes perpulchra ( Warren, 1905 )

Lindt, Aare, Tasane, Tõnis, Õunap, Erki & Viidalepp, Jaan, 2017, Five new species of the genus Paromphacodes (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Geometrinae) from High Andes in Ecuador, Zootaxa 4303 (3), pp. 395-406 : 397-398

Paromphacodes perpulchra ( Warren, 1905)

( Figs 1 , 7)

Chrotoclora perpulchra Warren, 1905: 428 (Type locality: Huancabamba , Cerro de Pasco, Peru, 3400 ft.); Prout (1932): 50, 51. fig. 6e; Paromphacodes perpulchra ( Warren, 1905) : Pitkin (1996): 377, figs 34, 77, 116, 165.

Diagnosis. Forewings vivid green with bold chocolate brown postmedial vein-streaks or band and marginal bands, hind wings lustrous white with chocolate brown discal spot and marginal band. Other Andine species have fairly delicate wing pattern and no dark hind wing margin.

Description. W. Warren (1897) described, Prout (1932) and Pitkin (1996) illustrated P. perpulchra as with black discal spots and broad chocolate brown band along the distal margin of both wings. The fringe is chequered white and dark brown, and there is a larger dark mark on fringe near the hind wing tornus ( Fig. 1 ). The male genitalia (Fig. 7) fit well with figures of the type specimen of P. perpulchra ( Pitkin 1996, Figs 116, 165), characterized by a valva which has a broad costal plate which tapers distally, being provided with two flat triangular projections to the dorsal edge. The uncus is long, rod-like. The last abdominal sternite is short, bilobed at the posterior edge, and the posterior sclerotization of the tergite A8 is continuous, not bipartite.

Material : 1 ♂, Peru, Oxapampa, 2300 m, 14– 17.11.2003, 10°27'08"S, 75°17'04"W (A. Lindt) (slide 6707).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Neighbour-joining tree for the Paromphacodes species from Ecuador, and Lissochlora latuta (Dognin, 1898) as the outgroup species.