Sparganothoides canities Kruse and Powell 2009, new species
Creators: name: Kruse, James J.
name: Powell, Jerry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Tortricidae
Sparganothoides
Sparganothoides canities

description: 8. Sparganothoides canities Kruse and Powell, new species   
Figs. 14, 44, 68, 101, 102, 108  
 Diagnosis. Sparganothoides canities is most similar to S. coloratana, but it is smaller and grayer, and exhibits less sexual dimorphism than the latter. The mesally widened uncus of S. canities is distinct from that of similar species.   
 Description. Male. Head: Frons gray, smooth scaled; vertex roughened, with white-tipped gray scales. Labial palpus gray mesally, white-tipped gray scales laterally. Antennal scaling gray. Thorax: Dorsum smooth scaled, brown and gray. Forewing length 8.8–9.5 mm (= 9.2; n = 2). Forewing ground color gray with smaller brown patches, particularly in basal area; indistinct subbasal fascia; median and subterminal fasciae faint with dark gray, orange, and dark brown scaling; dark gray and brown transverse strigulae fading apically from subterminal and terminal areas; suffused gray and brown spot at apex of discal cell. Fringe pale yellowish brown. Hindwing pale gray, darkened toward apical and distal regions. Abdomen: Genitalia (Fig. 14; slide #5564; EME; Mexico, Durango, Tepalcates, 30 mi W Durango; n = 2) with uncus long, slender, slightly widened mesally, elbowed at nearly 90° angle at two-thirds distance from base, with long setae dorsally and patch of small setae ventrally; tegumen slightly raised and triangular at base of uncus; socius subtriangular posteriorly, secondary arms long, slender, abruptly angled near middle, enlarged apices asymmetrically lobed, moderately boot-shaped; transtilla sclerotized, distinctly and narrowly bilobed, spines short, numerous over most of posterior margin, anterior process reinforced with invagination at middle; valva subrectangular with sclerotized curved crease connecting to near base of sacculus and extending over twothirds of valva, sacculus and costa straight, pulvinus present; phallus pistol-shaped, aedeagus with ventral surface more curved than dorsal, shorter than phallobase, attenuate apically, attached to juxta by a narrow process; cornuti in dense clump.   
 Female. Head, Thorax: Essentially as described for male. Forewing length 8.4–9.0 mm (= 8.7; n = 5). Abdomen: Genitalia (Fig. 44; slide #5565; EME; Mexico, Durango, Tepalcates, 30 mi W Durango; n = 2) with papillae anales parallel-sided, rounded posteriorly; sterigma strongly sclerotized ventrally, concave anteriorly; ductus bursae short, widened anteriorly; corpus bursae large, irregularly rounded; signum about three times as long as wide, simple, curved, weakly bilobed, attenuate at apices.   
 Type material. Holotype: Male: MEXICO: DURANGO: Tepalcates, 30 mi W Durango, 11.viii.1986, reared from eggs on synthetic diet, emgd. 6.xii.1986, JAP 86H27, J. Brown & J. Powell (EME).   
Paratypes (1♂, 4♀). MEXICO: DURANGO: Tepalcates, 30 mi W Durango, 11.viii.1986 (1♂, 1♀), at lights, J. Brown & J. Powell (EME), reared from eggs on synthetic diet, emgd. 6–14.xii.1986 (3♀), JAP 86H27 (EME, NMNH).  
 Immature stages. A single patch of orange eggs was observed. Eggs hatched in 10 days. Larvae fed on synthetic diet; development to pupation required 90–100 days, and one larva lived about 150 days prior to its preservation. The anal comb has six tines.   
 Biology. Adults have been captured from mid-August to mid-September in arid pinyon-juniper habitat.   
 Remarks. We examined three additional worn females from eastern Mexico (Nuevo Leon, 4 mi W Iturbide, 13–14.ix.1976, J. Chemsak & J. Powell, EME) that may be conspecific with the holotype. However, the ductus bursae is constricted basally (EME 5568, n = 1) in contrast to the the gradually widened ductus bursae of Durango specimens (EME 5566, n = 1).   
 Etymology. The name is derived from the Latin word canities (= whitish gray color).
description: Published as part of Kruse, James J. & Powell, Jerry A., 2009, Systematics of Sparganothoides Lambert and Powell, 1986 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Sparganothini), pp. 1-78 in Zootaxa 2150 (1) on pages 28-29, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2150.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5311432