Rejectaria splendida Schaus, USNMENT 1912
Creators: name: Goldstein, Paul Z.
name: Janzen, Daniel H.
name: Hallwachs, Winnie
name: Proshek, Benjamin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuidae
Rejectaria
Rejectaria splendida

description: Rejectaria splendida Schaus, 1912
Habitus Figs 17–18, 25–26, 28. Male genitalia Figs 53, 75–76. Female genitalia Fig. 91
Regectaria [sic] splendida, 1912, Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8, 9: 209.Type locality: Costa Rica: Juan Vinas (Syntypes ♂, ♀, USNM)
Material examined. Type material: Rejectaria splendida Syntypes (1♂, 1♀). COSTA RICA: 1♂, Juan Vinas CR, Nov., Rejectaria splendida type Schs., Type No. 17530 U.S. N.M., USNMENT00973707, USNM slide 148598; 1♀, Juan Vinas CR, Nov, Schaus and Barnes Coll, Rejectaria splendida Schs ♀, USNMENT01756004, USNM slide 148641.
Diagnosis. See Diagnosis for atrax, above.
Supplement to original description. Head. (Figs 25, 26, 28) Frons, vertex dark brown; antennae setoseciliate; male palpi (Fig. 25) predominantly brown with scattered white scales; overall shape squared, the 1 st and 2 nd segments forming right angles, 1 st segment turned upward at a 90˚ angle before meeting the 2 nd segment; 2 nd segment curving gently for most of its length before turning sharply backward, well above the head; when everted from the 3 rd segment, hair pencils forming expansive tan-colored fans; female palpi (Figs 26, 28) with 2 nd segment more than twice as long as either of the other two; third segment bladelike, vaguely hastate, white scales at base and tip.
Thorax. Wings— (males, 24.5, n=2; female, 25mm, n=1) FW with dark brown median field, heterogeneous pale frosting in basal and postmedial fields, frosting in the postmedial area concentrated in the subapical patch and towards the pm line where it meets the inner margin; st line a faint discontinuous series of white markings, terminal line a series of white dashes; finge brown; pm, st and terminal lines continue on HW; HW paler, more dingy gray-brown than FW. Legs— (Figs 25, 26, 28) Scaling predominantly chocolate brown with incomplete creamcolored segmental bands on legs and at base of tibial spurs; male forefemoral tuft present, chocolate brown with scattered white scaling; foretibia cream-colored laterally; female foreleg and midleg with additional white scaling at segments.
Abdomen. Gray-brown above, concolorous with hindwing uppersides.
Male genitalia. (Figs 53, 75–76) Uncus elongate, setose, sheepsfoot-shaped; costal margin sclerotized throughout, free distally as a thumblike protruberance; outer margin not smooth, but with 2-3 protrusions bearing small setal tufts; vinculum bluntly tapered; phallic ridge undeveloped; vesica with small subbasal ridge-like field of minute spines; microspines diffusely distributed on basal lobes; body of vesica flanked by sub-conical lobes; spinules concentrated on subbasal lobe.
Female genitalia. Unknown.
Immature stages. Unknown.
Biology. Unknown.
Distribution. Known from Costa Rica
Remarks. See Remarks under R. atrax, above.
description: Published as part of Goldstein, Paul Z., Janzen, Daniel H., Hallwachs, Winnie & Proshek, Benjamin, 2022, New species in Rejectaria Guenée (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Herminiinae) with a focus on the Cyclanthaceae-feeders, pp. 451-483 in Zootaxa 5087 (3) on pages 460-462, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5087.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5826945