Bryolymnia viridimedia
Creators: name: Lafontaine, Donald
name: Walsh, J.
name: Holland, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Bryolymnia
Bryolymnia viridimedia

description: <i>Bryolymnia viridimedia</i> (Smith, 1905) Figs 1–3, 25, 34 <i>Bryophila viridimedia</i> Smith 1905: 188. <b>Type material.</b> <b>Holotype</b> ♁. Arizona, Cochise Co. AMNH, examined. <b>Other material examined and distribution. Mexico:</b> States of Chihuahua, Durango (Sierra Madre Occidental), Mexican Federal District. <b>USA: Arizona:</b> Cochise Co. (Huachuca Mts) and Santa Cruz Co. (Santa Rita Mts). <b>Diagnosis.</b> Superficially <i>Bryolymnia viridimedia</i> can be recognized by large size (forewing length: 14–18 mm), extensive pale-green shading in the medial area, and the course of the antemedial line on the forewing. On the forewing the antemedial line has a rectangular indentation between the cubital and anal veins, and an outward loop below the anal vein; the basal area is black, except for the area below the anal vein, which is pale green; the subterminal and terminal areas are mainly brown with gray scales (mainly adjacent to the lower part of the postmedial line, and with a dark-fuscous truncated wedge-shaped patch on the costa. Th e hindwing is pale fuscous with darker shading on the veins, discal spot, postmedial line, and wing margin. <i>Bryolymnia viridimedia</i> is similar to <i>B</i>. <i>poasia</i> Schaus, 1911 from Costa Rica (Figs. 4, 5, 26, 35) and <i>B</i>. <i>marti</i> (described below). <i>Bryolymnia poasia</i> is smaller (forewing length: 12–14 mm) than <i>B</i>. <i>viridimedia</i>, the forewing medial area is white or whitish buff, not green, and the genitalia differ. <b>Male genitalia.</b> In <i>B</i>. <i>viridimedia</i> the cucullus is short, similar in width to the rest of the valve, and has a partial corona on the dorsal-apical margin; the clasper is a simple finger-like process with a large rounded or slightly lobed sclerotized plate on the dorsal-anterior rod at the base of the clasper. The vesica has two dense patches of long spines ventrolaterally on the right, one postmedial and one preapical, the latter on a short diverticulum. In <i>B</i>. <i>poasia</i> (Fig. 26) the valve is straighter and narrower toward the base, the rounded sclerotized plate on the dorsal-anterior rod at the base of the clasper is larger and more rounded, and the vesica is short with a single large basal cornutus on a large base. <b>Female genitalia.</b> The corpus bursae is oval, 4 × as long as abdominal segment eight and 0.8 × as long as the ductus bursae. Th e ductus bursae is long and narrow with irregular sclerotized ridges longitudinally, especially mesially and anteriorly. Th e ostium bursae has an elongated heavily sclerotized plate in the ventral wall with rounded sides and a deep central notch posteriorly. <b>Distribution and biology.</b> <i>Bryolymnia viridimedia</i> occurs from southeastern Arizona (Huachuca and Santa Rita Mountains) southward in the Sierra Madre Occidental to the Mexico City area. Collecting dates range from early July to mid-September. <i>Bryolymnia bicon</i> occurs south of the range of <i>B</i>. <i>viridimedia</i>, from the State of Veracruz in central-eastern Mexico southward to Costa Rica.
description: Published as part of <i>Lafontaine, Donald, Walsh, J. &amp; Holland, Richard, 2010, A revision of the genus Bryolymnia Hampson in North America with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Elaphriini), pp. 187-204 in ZooKeys 39 (39)</i> on page 191, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.39.437, http://zenodo.org/record/576641
description: {"references": ["Smith JB (1905) New species of Noctuidae for 1905 no. 3. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 13: 188 - 211."]}