Hypatopa tapadulcea Adamski 1999
Creators: name: Adamski, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Blastobasidae
Hypatopa
Hypatopa tapadulcea

description: Hypatopa tapadulcea Adamski, 1999
(Figs. 39, 197–198, 265, 385, Map 40)
Diagnosis.— Hypatopa tapadulcea is similar to H. mora in facies but differs from the latter by having a less inwardly curved apical process of the ventral part of the valva; and a less recurved apical part of the sclerite of the phallus. H. tapadulcea also has an inwardly curved digital process of the dorsal part of the valva; and a sparsely spinulate proximal flange of the dorsal part of the valva that are lacking in H. mora.
Re-description.—Head: Scale on vertex and frontoclypeus brown tipped with yellowish brown. Outer surface of labial palpus with brown scales tipped with yellowish brown intermixed with brown scales and pale-brown scales, inner surface mostly yellowish brown intermixed with few brown scales [some specimens have both surfaces with mostly brown scales]. Antennal scape and pecten brown, flagellum brownish gray. Proboscis pale brown.
Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum brown. Legs brown intermixed with pale-brown scales near midsegments and apical margins of tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig. 385): Length 5.0 mm (n = 1), brown. Undersurface brown. Venation (Fig. 39) with M3 and CuA1 arising from a common point on distoposterior part of cell; cubital veins divergent from bases with CuA1 straight and CuA2 broadly curved basally. Hindwing: Gray. Venation (Fig. 39) with cubitus 4- branched; M2 arising on distoposterior part of cell and M3 and CuA1 branched near 1/2.
Abdomen: Male genitalia (Figs. 197–198): Uncus gradually narrowed from widened base, acutely curved and narrowly rounded apically, sparsely setose, about equal in length to width of anal opening. Gnathos attenuate, anteriorly directed band, confluent with tegumen; ventroposterior margin entire. Sockets of tergal setae extending beyond midlength of tegumen. Valva divided; ventral part slightly projecting inwardly, wide basally, angular near middle, narrowing apically, forming large, inwardly curved, apical process; process setose on outer surface, planate on inner surface; ventral margin setose from beyond base; dorsal part with apical portion of costa extending dorsolaterally, forming setose digitate process; digitate process broadly curved inwardly, slightly constricted basally; basal ridge of digitate process extending ventrally fusing with dorsolateral ridge of proximal flange; flange subquadrate, sparsely spinulate on basal 1/2, spinulate and setose on apical 1/2; margin narrowly serrate. Juxta bandlike. Vinculum semicircular. Phallus and sclerite of phallus longer than valva; phallus slightly curved beyond bulbous base, sclerite of phallus broadly curved from middle, acutely curved apically and at base; anellus slightly wider near middle than at base and apex, bearing two setal clusters on lateral surfaces. Female Genitalia (Fig. 265): Apophyses posteriores 2X longer than apophyses anteriores; eighth tergum with short, darkly pigmented, median longitudinal streak on posterior end. Ostium bursae elongate, within membrane, slightly posterior to seventh segment; posterior margin of seventh sternum straight; short duct connecting with coiled part of ductus bursae and ductus seminalis from shared point; ductus bursae about 8X longer than apophyses posteriores. Corpus bursae ovoid; signum spinate arising from spinulate base on posterior end.
Type Examined: Holotype, 3, “Est[ación] Pitilla, 700 m, 9 km S Sta. Cecilia, PN Guanacaste, Prov. Guan., COSTA RICA, C. Moraga, Set. 1991, L-N-330200, 380200. [INBio].
MAP 40. Distribution of Hypatopa tapadulcea (●) and H. mora (˔).
Distribution (Map 40). Hypatopa tapadulcea is known from three collecting sites; two on the western most part of the Cordillera de Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica and one on the western part of the Cordillera de Tilarán. Additional collecting sites other than that of the holotype are obtained from Adamski (1999b) include: “Estación Cacao, 1000–1400 m, Lado SO Vol. Cacao, P.N.Guanacaste, Prov. Guan., L-N-323300, 375700 and “San Luis, Monteverde, 1000–1355 m, Prov. Punta., L-N-449250, 250850. Paratypes are in INBio and USNM.
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 pages 116-117, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3618.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/247396