Sparganothoides canorisana Kruse & Powell 2009, new species
Creators: name: Kruse, James J.
name: Powell, Jerry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Tortricidae
Sparganothoides
Sparganothoides canorisana

description: 19. Sparganothoides canorisana Kruse & Powell, new species   
Figs. 26, 50, 81  
 Diagnosis. Sparganothoides canorisana is similar to S. capitiornata, but the two can be separated by the shape of the apex of the uncus (subrectangular in S. canorisana compared to a pair of minute cylindrical processes in S. capitiornata) and the shape of the apical portion of the socii/gnathos arms (asymmetrically bilobed, resembling a treble clef in S. canorisana compared to mitten-shaped in S. capitiornata).   
 Description. Male. Head: Frons yellowish brown, smooth scaled; vertex roughened laterally, yellowish brown to brown, two large exoskeletal protuberances between mesal-posterior margins of compound eyes and angled toward middle, one large conical protuberance between antennae; broad area of densely packed, short, yellowish brown scales between anterior and posterior protuberances; short, erect, yellowish white scales between posterior protuberances. Labial palpus yellowish white mesally, yellowish brown to brown laterally.   
 Antennal scaling yellowish brown. Thorax: Smooth scaled laterally, yellowish brown or brown, dense column of short white to yellowish white scales mesally; tegula with clump of small orange or brown pointed scales at apex giving tegula truncate appearance. Forewing length 8.8–9.8 mm (= 9.3; n = 4). Forewing costal fold slightly less than half of wing length, distal curl of fold extending beyond middle; forewing ground color yellowish brown to brown with slight orange tinge, with heavy scattering of brown scales and spots; tornal mark restricted to brown spot dorsad; indistinct brown transverse strigulae throughout subterminal and terminal areas; often with brown spot at apex of discal cell. Fringe yellowish brown to orange. Hindwing gray, often with dense gray transverse striae throughout. Abdomen: Genitalia (Fig. 26; slide #JAP3146; NMNH; Guatemala, Dept. Alto V.P., Coban; n = 4) with uncus long, slender, curved, with long setae dorsally, lacking distinct patch of small setae ventrally, ovately widened subapically, with a subrectangular process apically; tegumen raised and rounded at base of uncus; socius narrowly rounded posteriorly, secondary arms long, slender, abruptly angled near middle, enlarged apices strongly asymmetrically bilobed, resembling “treble clef” (musical symbol); transtilla strongly sclerotized, distinctly bilobed, spines large, numerous over mesal one-third of posterior margin, anterior process reinforced with an invagination at middle; valva subrectangular with sclerotized curved crease connecting to near base of sacculus and extending over two-thirds of valva; costa from nearly straight to weakly concave; sacculus convex; pulvinus present; phallus pistol-shaped, aedeagus parallel-sided, slightly curved, shorter than phallobase, with ventral lip apically, attached to juxta by a thin process; phallobase long, with a short bulb; cornuti with minute spine near base.   
 Female. Head, Thorax: Essentially as described for male, except dark brown. Forewing length 10.2 mm (n = 1). Abdomen: Genitalia (Fig. 50; slide #5608; EME; Mexico, San Luis Potosi, Mpio. Cd. del Maiz, El Platanito; n = 1) with papillae anales parallel-sided, rounded posteriorly; sterigma strongly sclerotized ventrally, concave anteriorly; ductus bursae short, widened anteriorly; corpus bursae large, irregularly rounded; signum more than three times as long as wide, simple, weakly curved, rounded at apices.   
 Type material. Holotype: Male: MEXICO: VERACRUZ: Coatepec, 8 mi S Jalapa, 4100’, 26.xii.1963, M. Tauber & C. Toschi (EME).   
Paratypes (3♂, 1♀). SAN LUIS POTOSÍ: El Platanito, Torre Forestal, Mpio. Cd. [Municipio Ciudad] del Maiz, 1160 m, 31.vii.1984 (1♂), 1.viii.1984 (1♀), E. Welling (EME). TAMAULIPAS: Gómez Farias, 1000 m, 29–31.vii.1988 (1♂), V. Becker & M. Solis (VBC). GUATEMALA: Dept. Alto V. P., Coban, 22–23.vi.1966 (1♂), O. Flint & Ortiz (NMNH).  
 Immature stages. Unknown.   
 Biology. Adults have been captured in June, July, August, and December, indicating that this species is bivoltine or multivoltine.   
 Distribution. This species has been recorded from Mexican states of Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, and Veracruz, and from Guatemala.   
 Etymology. The name is derived from the Latin “canor” (= melody) in reference to the enlarged apices of the socii/gnathos arms that resemble the treble clef musical symbol.
description: Published as part of Kruse, James J. & Powell, Jerry A., 2009, Systematics of Sparganothoides Lambert and Powell, 1986 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Sparganothini), pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 2150 (1) on pages 40-42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2150.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5311432