Dolecta macrochir Schaus 1892
Creators: name: Naydenov, Artem E.
name: Yakovlev, Roman V.
name: Penco, Fernando C.
name: Sinyaev, Victor V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cossidae
Dolecta
Dolecta macrochir

description: 14. Dolecta macrochir Schaus, 1892   
Figs 19−20, 49, 63, 67  
Schaus, 1892: 328  
Type locality: [Brazil], Rio Janeiro.  
Type material (holotype) in USNM.  
 Material examined. Holotype ♀: [Brazil], Rio Janeiro (Genitalia Slide By P. Gentili, 1988, USNM 85.175) (USNM); 4 ♂♂, Brasilien, Santa Catarina, S. Bento do Sul, Serra Rio Natal, 850 m, Nov 1998, leg. H. Thöny (GenPr- Heterocera MWM 28.615) (MWM); 3 ♂♂, Brasil, Parana Curitiba, Serra Do Mar, Estrada De Castelhanos, 30.xi.1997, ca. 500 m, leg. H. Thöny (GenPr- Heterocera MWM 28.501) (MWM); 2 ♂♂, Brasilien, Santa Catarina, S. Bento do Sul, Serra Rio Natal, 850 m, Januar 1999, leg. H. Thöny (MWM); 3 ♂♂, Brasilien, Espirito Santo, Santa Leopoldina, Dorf Tirol, ca. 700 m, 40º50′′ W / 24º75′′S, Okt. 1999, leg. H. Thöny (MWM).   
 Redescription. Male. Length of fore wing 19 mm. Fore wing light-brown with “chess board” darkbrown and yellow pattern of spots of various size and shape and undulated stripes, fringe mottled brown at veins (in thick bundles), yellow between veins. Hind wing light-yellow with poorly expressed transverse light-brown band postdiscally (at radial veins), series of brown semicircular spots along wing edge, fringe mottled brown at veins (in thick bundles), yellow between veins.   
Male genitalia. Uncus split to base by deep notch, halves of uncus leaf-like, wide; gnathos arms very short, thin; valve with small notch on border between basal and medium thirds of costal edge, small bump in distal third of costal edge, abdominal edge heavily curved on border between basal and medium thirds, outer edge semicircular; juxta large, scaphoid with relatively short tapered abdominal process narrowing from base to apex; saccus short, tapered, apically sharp; phallus short, slightly curved, 1/3 shorter than valve, vesica without cornuti.  
Female. Length of fore wing 22 mm. Fore wing analogous to that of male but slightly darker and more contrast. Hind wing light-brown with blurred mottled dark-brown pattern.  
Female genitalia. Ovipositor short; papillae anales tapered, densely covered with small spikes; anterior and posterior apophyses very short, thick, posterior apophyses with paddle-likely widened apices, slightly longer than anterior apophyses; ostium wide, cup-like, framed with poorly sclerotized plate; ductus bursae copulatrix short, relatively wide, sclerotized; bursa copulatrix bag-like, without signa.  
 Diagnosis. The species clearly differs from other representatives of the genus in its significantly lighter color, the short tapered saccus which is sharp apically. From the known females of the genus Dolecta the species differs by the sclerotized ductus bursae copulatrix and by the paddle-likely widened apices of the posterior apophyses.   
 Distribution. Brazil.
description: Published as part of Naydenov, Artem E., Yakovlev, Roman V., Penco, Fernando C. & Sinyaev, Victor V., 2020, New data on Neotropical Carpenter-Moths of Subfamily Hypoptinae Neumoegen & Dyar, 1894 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). II. A review of the genus Dolecta Herrich-Schäffer, [1854], with description of seventeen new species, pp. 82-114 in Ecologica Montenegrina 35 on page 97, DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.35.7, http://zenodo.org/record/13232251