Chlamydastis ronaldzunigai Phillips and Brown 2021, new species
Creators: name: Phillips-Rodríguez, Eugenie
name: Brown, John W.
name: Hallwachs, Winnie
name: Janzen, Daniel H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Oecophoridae
Chlamydastis
Chlamydastis ronaldzunigai

description: Chlamydastis ronaldzunigai Phillips and Brown, new species   
Figures 47, 86, 120  
 Holotype. Male, Costa Rica, Guanacaste, ACG, Sector El Hacha, Estación Los Almendros, 5.xi.2011, E. Cantillano, reared from larvae feeding on Chrysophyllum brenesii (Sapotaceae), 11-SRNP-20864, GenBank accession code JQ523251 (USNM).   
 Paratypes (14♂, 3♀): See Appendix 1.   
 Diagnosis. Chlamydastis ronaldzunigai is most similar to C. munifigueresae, but it is easily distinguished from the latter by its much broader tegumen, apically more rounded valva, slenderer basal portion of the valva, and its apically pointed uncus.   
 Description. MALE (Fig. 47). Head. Frons beige, vertex beige with light brown scales; labial palpus beige; antenna with sensory setae ca. 1.5 times width of flagellomere. Thorax. Tegula and dorsum golden yellow. FW length 4.9–5.2 mm; FW two-toned, mostly pale cream in basal 0.4 with irregular brownish costal spot at 0.15 distance from base to apex, a brown dot near center of FW base, a faint brown dot near base near hind margin; raised brownish scales on posterior 0.5 of wing between golden FW base and remainder of wing; distal 0.6 of FW brown with irregular yellowish-pale orange markings as follow: costal 0.5 with three yellow-orange spots originating at costa, one near border with golden base of FW, second reaching 0.5 of FW, and a third originating from costa directed towards apex; an irregular yellow patch at center of FW with upraised brown scales; posterior 0.5 with another small patch of upraised brown scales at medial line level; an interrupted, terminal orange line extending from costa to posterior margin. HW dark brown. Abdomen. Brown externally. Genitalia (Fig. 86) with uncus long, wide, bent ca. 0.4 distance from base to apex, with a pointed tip, bearing fine setae; gnathos narrow; valva divided longitudinally into broader, apically-rounded dorsal part bearing specialized setae subapically on costa, and narrow, elongate-digitate basal part; phallus short, broad, curved throughout.   
 FEMALE. Head and Thorax. Essentially as described for male, except sensory setae of antenna short, sparse; FW length 7.8–8.5 mm. Abdomen. Genitalia (Fig. 120) with papillae anales broad, narrowed and diverging posteriorly; sterigma a lightly sclerotized band; ostium with area of sclerotization; ductus bursae broad, with patch of sclerotized lines ca. 0.33 distance from ostium to junction with corpus bursae; ductus bursae intersecting ovoid corpus bursae at angle; signum a small, slender dentate patch.   
 DNA barcodes. The 11 barcode sequences of C. ronaldzunigai form a BIN (BOLD:AAH5243) with an average distance of 0.22% among sequences and a distance of 6.92% to its nearest neighbor, C. munifigueresae.   
 Distribution. Chlamydastis ronaldzunigai has been collected in Costa Rica in the ACG dry forest and at the dry forest-rain forest lowland intergrade, from 300 to 700 m elevation.   
 Biology. This species has been reared from larvae feeding on Chrysophyllum brenesii (Sapotaceae) (n = 3).   
 Etymology. Chlamydastis ronaldzunigai is a patronym for Ronald Zúñiga in recognition of his continuous curatorial and taxonomic contributions to the national biodiversity inventory of Costa Rica.
description: Published as part of Phillips-Rodríguez, Eugenie, Brown, John W., Hallwachs, Winnie & Janzen, Daniel H., 2021, Chlamydastis Meyrick of Costa Rica: barcodes, biology, and descriptions of 36 new species (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae), pp. 1-96 in Insecta Mundi 2021 (868) on pages 44-45, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5042023