Hypatopa fio Adamski, new species
Creators: name: Adamski, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Blastobasidae
Hypatopa
Hypatopa fio

description: Hypatopa fio Adamski, new species
(Figs. 207–208, 390, Map 42)
Diagnosis.— Hypatopa fio is similar to H. erato in facies but differs from the latter by having a longer uncus; a narrower digitate process of the dorsal part of the valva; a more shallowly serrate margin of the proximal flange; and a shorter phallus and sclerite of the phallus. H. fio also has an inner surface of proximal flange of the dorsal part of the valva that lacks setae; a sclerite of the phallus that is broadly curved from midlength; and an anellus that is broad throughout its length that are lacking in H. erato.
Description.—Head: Scales on vertex and frontoclypeus with grayish-brown scales tipped with pale grayish brown. Outer surface of labial palpus brown intermixed with pale-brown scales along apical margins of segments 1–2, inner surface pale brown. Antennal scape and pecten pale brown, flagellum brown basally gradually brightening apically. Proboscis pale brown.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum grayish brown. Legs brown intermixed with pale-brown scales near midsegments and along apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig. 390): Length 4.7 mm (n = 1), pale brown intermixed with brown scales. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Translucent pale brown gradually darkening to apex.
Abdomen: Male genitalia (Figs. 207–208): Uncus gradually narrowed from base, slightly constricted beyond middle, forming rounded apical part, slightly downcurved, sparsely setose, near equal in length to width of anal opening. Gnathos, narrow anteriorly directed band, confluent with tegumen; ventroposterior margin entire. Sockets of tergal setae extending beyond midlength of tegumen. Valva divided; ventral part basally angular, broadly rounded to base of large, inwardly curved apical process; process, setose outer surface, planate on inner surface; ventral margin greatly upturned basally, forming wide fold beneath proximal flange; basal margin setose to near setose marginal ridge beneath base of apical process; dorsal part with apical portion of costa extending dorsally, forming setose digitate process; process geniculate basally; basal ridge of digitate process extending ventrally fusing with dorsolateral ridge of proximal flange; flange subquadrate, with short microtrichiae on basal 1/2, spiculate on apical 1/2; margin broadly rounded, shallowly serrate. Juxta bandlike. Vinculum semicircular. Phallus and sclerite of phallus shorter than valva; phallus straight; sclerite of phallus shallowly sigmoid-shaped; anellus gradually narrowed from wide base, broadly rounded apically, setose on basal 1/2. Female Genitalia: Unknown.
Holotype, 3, “Est[ación] Cacao, 1000–1400 m, Lado SO Vol[can] Cacao, P[arque] N[acional] G[uanacaste], Prov[incia] Guan[acaste], COSTA RICA, C. Chaves, Abr[il] 1991, L-N-323300, 375700, “INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI000, 319464 [barcode label], “INBio, Ƥ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 2215 [yellow label].
Distribution (Map 42): Hypatopa fio is known from one collecting site on the western most part of the Cordillera de Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica.
Etymology. The specific epithet fio is derived from the Latin meaning, to come into existence.
description: Published as part of Adamski, David, 2013, Review of the Blastobasinae of Costa Rica (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea: Blastobasidae), pp. 1-223 in Zootaxa 3618 (1) on page 122, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3618.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/247396