Callipia occulta Brehm 2018, stat. rev.
Creators: name: Brehm, Gunnar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Geometridae
Callipia
Callipia occulta

description: Callipia occulta Warren, 1904 stat. rev.
Figs 49–51, 61–62
Callipia hamaria Sperry, 1951: 161. (Fig. 48). Syn. nov.
Assigned BIN: BOLD:AAI3932.
Diagnosis
Callipia occulta stat. rev. was put into synonymy with C. constantinaria by Parsons et al. (1999), following Prout’s catalogue in the British Museum (Natural History). However, the yellow blotch on the forewing is much more restricted in C. constantinaria than in C. occulta stat. rev., moreover, C.constantinaria appears to be a bit smaller than C. occulta stat. rev. The comparison of the genitalia is not possible since the final segments of the abdomen are missing in the holotype of C. constantinaria. Barcoding revealed two different BINs of C. constantinaria -like species from Peru. C. occulta stat. rev. and C. hiltae sp. nov. form a cryptic species complex, see C. hiltae sp. nov. COI-barcode: the minimum observed distance to the genetically most similar species (C.aurata) is 3.4%.
Type material
Holotype (Figs 49, 61) PERU: ♂, [no further data available] (NHM).
Other type material (Fig. 48)
PERU: holotype of hamaria Sperry, 1951, [Junín] Satipo, May 1948, P. Paprzycki leg. (AMNH).
Other material examined
VENEZUELA: no further data (MFN) (C-0107) [doubtful since there are no records from Colombia].
ECUADOR: 1 ♂, Guayaquil (MFN) (C-0106) [doubtful because of the low elevation, far off any other record]; 2 ♂♂, Sucumbios, El Calvario, 2800 m, 7Aug. 1996, G. Onore, E. Tapia, F. Salazar leg. (CMNH) (C-0082, COI sequence: 658 bp, BIN; C-0115); 15 ♂♂, [Napo] Route Baeza-Lumbaqui au Puente Azuela, 1530 m, 6–7 Feb. 1975, C. Herbulot leg. (ZSM, RCGB) (C-0117–0128, 0157; 0158; 0425); 2 ♂♂, Hacienda San Isidro (ZMUJ) (C-0045; 0116); 1 ♂, Napo, 10 km E of Papallacta, Hacienda Bosque on road Quito-Baeza, disturbed montane forest, 2600 m, 11 Nov. 1995, Jan Hillman leg. (AMNH) (C-0 160, COI sequence: 658 bp, BIN); 1 ♂, Napo, Cordillera Guacamayos, Cedroyacu Canyon, pristine cedar forest, 2100 m, 8 Aug. 1996, Jan Hillman leg. (AMNH) (C-0161, COI sequence: 407 bp, BIN); 1 ♂, Napo, Cordillera Huacamayos, Estero Chico, virgin humid forest, 0.617° S, 77.850° W, 2650 m, 5 Aug. [19]96, J. Hillmann leg. (CMNH) (C-0084 with GS-391, COI sequence: 658 bp, BIN, Figs 50, 62); 1 ♂, Napo, Tena, 450 m [doubtful elevation, not considered for observed distribution], Aug. [19]56, J. Förster leg. (ZSM) (C-0152 with GS-092, COI sequence 307 bp); 1 ♂, Cañar, 10 m NW of Chiguinda, farms in tropical forest, 2000 m, 16 July 1994, Jan Hillman leg. (AMNH) (C-0159, COI sequence: 658 bp, BIN, Fig. 50); 1 ♂, Zamora-Chinchipe, 27 km NW of Zamora, 3.95° S, 79.05° W, 1550 m, 10 Jun. 1983, John E. Rawlins leg. (CMNH) (C-0083, COI barcode 307 bp); 1 ♂, Zamora-Chinchipe, Reserva Biológica San Francisco, 3.983° S, 79.086° W, 2290 m, 6 May 1999, D. Süssenbach leg. (SMNS) (C-0054 with GS-103, COI sequence: 658 bp, BIN); 1 ♂, same data as previous, but 3.986° S, 79.073° W, 2387 m, 12 May 1999, D. Süssenbach leg. (SMNS) (C-0053, COI sequence: 658 bp, BIN); 1 ♂, same data as previous, but Estación Biológica San Francisco, 3.971° S, 79.079° W, 1850 m, 2 July 2007, F. Bodner (RCGB) (C-0081, COI sequence: 658 bp, BIN).
PERU: 2 ♂♂, [Pasco], Quiroz (AMNH) (C-0113; 0155); 1 ♂, [Pasco], near Pozuzo, 1000 m, 6–7 May 1996 m, J. Grados leg (MUSM) (C-0086); 1 ♂, [Pasco], Oxapampa (AMNH) (C-0110); 2 ♂♂, [Pasco] Huancab [amba] (MNHN, ZMF) (C-0100; 0103; 0104); 1 ♂, [Pasco] Huancab [amba] Pasco de Cerro (NHM) (C-0102); 5 ♂♂, [Junín], Chanchamayo (MFN) (C-0101; 0105; 0109; 0112; 0156); 2 ♂♂, [Junín] Rio Negro, 24 May 1933 (MFN) (C-0108); 1 ♂, Cusco, Valle de Marcapata (MUSM) (C-0151).
Description
As illustrated.
Distribution
Eastern Andes of Ecuador and N and Central Peru, 1500–2800 m.
Remarks
The taxon C. hamaria, originally described as a form of C. constantinaria by Sperry (1951), actually very closely resembles C. occulta stat. rev.; both are from Peru. While Parsons et al. (1999) treated C.hamaria as a junior synonym of C. constantinaria, I treat it here as junior synonym of C. occulta stat. rev.
description: Published as part of Brehm, Gunnar, 2018, Revision of the genus Callipia Guenée, 1858 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae), with the description of 15 new taxa, pp. 1-54 in European Journal of Taxonomy 404 on pages 23-26, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.404, http://zenodo.org/record/1177125