Callipia milleri Brehm 2018, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Brehm, Gunnar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Geometridae
Callipia
Callipia milleri

description: Callipia milleri sp. nov.
urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:CA8B2C53-C4C4-493E-988C-ABCAC06E649B
Figs 100–101, 106–107
BIN (holotype): BOLD:AAI3924.
Diagnosis
Closest relative of C. wojtusiaki sp. nov. and C.wojtusiaki septentrionalis subsp. nov. The geographical range overlaps with the latter. The male uncus is narrower than in C. wojtusiaki sp. nov. The wing patterns do not offer reliable diagnostic characters. COI-barcode: the minimum observed distance to C.milleri sp. nov. is 1.0%.
Etymology
The species is named in honour of James S. Miller (AMNH), USA.
Type material
Holotype (Figs 100, 106) ECUADOR: ♂, Carchi, 35 km W of Tufino, west slope, 3120 m, 30 Nov. 1987, C. Young and R. Davidson leg. (CMNH) (C-0370 with GS-311, COI sequence 658 bp, BIN).
Paratypes COLOMBIA: 1 ♂, [Valle del Cauca], Calí, 1000 m, 19 Aug. 1973 (RCGB) (C-0004 with GS-279, COI sequence 658 bp, BIN); 1 ♂, [Valle del Cauca], Calima Dam, [03.881° N, 76.558° W], 3000 ft [914 m], 15 Jan. 1985, J. Bolling Sullivan leg. (Bolling collection) (C-0001, COI sequence 566 bp (92 bp gap), BIN); 1 ♂, [Nariño Department] Pasto-Sandona, [ca 1.25° N, 77.38° W], 2000–2400 m, [no date], Werner Hopp leg. (ZSM) (C-0002 with GS-313, COI sequence 658 bp, BIN)
ECUADOR: 2 ♂♂, Cotopaxi, W of Pilalo, 1800 m, 9–10 Oct. 1977, L.E. Peña leg. (AMNH, PMJ) (C-0 361 with GS-310, COI sequence 307 bp; C-0360); 2 ♂♂, Pichincha, Las Palmeras, 59 km W Quito, 8 km W of Chiriboga, 6400 ft [1951 m], 15 Oct. 1988, J.S. Miller leg. (AMNH) (C-0005 with GS-320, COI sequence 589 bp, BIN; C-0371, COI sequence 658 bp, BIN); 1 ♂, Pichincha, 26 km WNW Machachi, humid primary forest, 1900 m, 12 Nov. 1987, J. Rawlins, C. Young and R. Davidson leg. (CMNH) (C-0006, COI sequence 658 bp, BIN); 1 ♂, Napo, Hazienda Bosque on road Quito-Baeza, disturbed montane forest, 2600 m, 11 Nov. 1995, Jan Hillman leg. (NHM) (C-0007, COI sequence 658 bp, BIN); 1 ♂, Napo, 12.8 km SE of Papallacta on road Papallacta-Baeza, 2440 m, 30 May 1993, J.S. Miller leg. (AMNH) (C-0008 with GS-307, COI sequence 658 bp, BIN, Figs 101, 107).
Other material examined
COLOMBIA: 5 ♂♂, [Valle del Cauca], Calima Dam, [03.881° N, 76.558° W], 3000 ft [914 m], (Sullivan collection) (C-0163; 0165–0168); 1 ♂, [Cauca], Jiminez, 1600 ft [488 m] [doubtful elevation, not considered in observed distribution], (USNM) (C-0372); 1 male Cali (ZSM).
ECUADOR: 1 ♂, Carchi, La Alegria on road between La Bonita and Santa Barbara, 2700 m, 14 Sep. 1977 (AMNH) (C-0366); 1 ♂, Pichincha, Quito - Nanegalito, 37 km, 0.018° N, 78.615° W, 2094 m, 2 Nov. 2011 (ZSM) (C-0403); 1 ♂, Pichincha, Camping Bella Vista, 0.011° S, 78.688° W, 2230 m, 27 Oct. 2011 (ZSM) (C-0404); 2 ♂♂, Pichincha, Tandayapa, 3, 5 km S, (Bellavista Lodge), 00°03.70’ N, 78°40.93’ W [coordinates incorrect], 2310 m, 1–20 Nov. 2012 (ZSM) (C-0429, 0430).
Description
Male as illustrated. Female unknown.
Distribution
Western Cordillera of southern Colombia, western and eastern Cordillera of northern Ecuador, 900– 2500 m.
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 42-43, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.404, http://zenodo.org/record/1177125