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

description: Hypatopa leda Adamski, new species
(Figs. 211–212, 266, 392, Map 43)
Diagnosis.— Hypatopa leda is similar to H. io in facies but differs from the latter by having a smaller uncus; a less protuberant median lobe of the ventroposterior margin of the gnathos; a less upturned ventral margin of the ventral part of the valva; a shorter and more broadly curved phallus; and a shorter anellus. H. leda also has an inwardly curved digitate process of the dorsal part of the valva; a slightly curved apical process of the ventral part of the valva; a sparsely microtrichiate basal part of the proximal flange of the dorsal part of the valva; an irregularly serrate margin of proximal flange; and an anellus that is more deeply and broadly emarginate mesially, with setae on the basal 1/3 that are lacking in H. io.
Description.—Head: Vertex and frontoclypeus brown. Outer surface of labial palpus brown, inner surface pale brown. 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 along apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig. 392): Length 5.2–5.6 mm (n = 3), brown. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Translucent pale brown.
Abdomen: Male genitalia (Figs. 211–212): Uncus parallelsided from broadly rounded base, slightly downturned and boardly rounded apically, sparsely setose, shorter than width of anal opening. Gnathos, narrow band, confluent with tegumen; ventroposterior margin slightly protuberant, forming shallowly emarginate median lobe. Sockets of tergal setae not extending beyond midlength of tegumen. Valva divided; ventral part basally protracting inwardly, widening to near middle, gradually narrowing to large, inwardly curved, apical process; process slightly curved from base, setose on outer surface, planate on inner surface; ventral margin sparsely setose, slightly upturned beyond middle, forming narrow fold to near small, setose marginal ridge at 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 subelliptical, sparsely spiculate on basal 2/3, irregularly setose on apical 1/3 with hairlike setae intermixed with conical setae; margin irregularly serrate. Juxta divided. Vinculum semicircular. Phallus and sclerite of phallus longer than valva, both broadly curved from middle; anellus near parallelsided from wide base, apex widely emarginate mesially, forming two lateral lobes, setose on basal 1/2. Female Genitalia (Fig. 266): Apophyses posteriores about 3X longer than apophyses anteriores. Ostium bursae within sparsely microtrichiate membrane, slightly posterior to seventh segment. Antrum wider than long; posterior margin of seventh sternum straight. Inception of ductus seminalis arising slightly anterior to posterior margin of seventh sternum; ductus bursae slightly greater than 1 1/ 2X longer than apophyses posteriores; spinulate on anterior 1/4. Corpus bursae ovoid, spinulate; signum small, spinate, arising from a rounded base.
Holotype, 3, “Est[ación] Cacao, 1000–1400 m, Lado SO Vol[can] Cacao, P[arque] N[acional] G[uanacaste], COSTA RICA, D. Garcia, 11 Set [iembre]- 11 Oct [ubre] 1991, L-N-323300, 375700, “INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI000, 349613 [barcode label], “INBio, 3 Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 2284 [yellow label].
Paratypes (2 3, 1 Ƥ): 1 3, same data as for holotype except, “Derrumbe, lado oeste V. Cacao, III Curso Parataxon., May 1992, L-N-323700, 376700, “CRI000, 416963, “Slide No. 2336; 1 Ƥ, 2 Km SW del Cerro Cacao, 1100 m, 12–17 Feb. 1995, S. Avila, L-N-323100, 375800, # 5858, “CRI002, 336960, “Slide No. 4512, “USNM 84144; 1 3, “San Luis, Monteverde, Prov. Punta., 1000–1350 m, Jul. 1994, Z. Fuentes, L-N- 250850, 449250, # 3074, “CRI002, 0 25678, “Slide No. 2636, “USNM 84019 [1 in INBio, 2 in USNM].
Distribution (Map 43): Hypatopa leda is known from three collecting sites; two closely adjacent sites on the Cordillera de Guanacaste, and one site on the Cordillera de Tilarán in western Costa Rica.
Etymology. The specific epithet leda is chosen in honor of Leda, the wife of Tyndarus, who bore to Zeus, Castor, Pollux, Helen, and Clytemnestra.
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 124-125, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3618.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/247396