Charadra cakulha Schmidt &amp; Anweiler 2010, sp. n.
Creators: name: Schmidt, Christian
name: Anweiler, Gary
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pantheidae
Charadra
Charadra cakulha

description: <i>Charadra cakulha</i> Schmidt &amp; Anweiler, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 3FCD51C4-A812-49D5-B653-56922696F08B Figs 7, 25 <b>Type material.</b> <b>Holotype</b> ♁ – MEXICO: “MEX., San Cristobal / de Las Casas, Chi[apa]s. / June 17 1969 / A. Mutuura ”; “ HOLOTYPE / <i>Charadra cakulha</i> / Schmidt &amp; Anweiler” [red label]. CNC. Paratypes – same data as holotype, (1♁). CNC. <b>Etymology.</b> A deity from Mayan mythology, Cakulha is the ruler of the lesser lightning bolts, and brother of Coyopa. It is a noun in apposition. <b>Diagnosis.</b> Externally recognizable by the very pale greyish-white outer third of the forewing and thorax, unique among the <i>pata</i> group. In addition to the wing markings, <i>C</i>. <i>cakulha</i> is distinguishable from the similar <i>C. oligarchia</i> by the lateral, symmetrical cornuti that are fused to the aedeagus (in <i>C. oligarchia</i> they are at the base of the vesica with one cornutus massive and one small). <b>Figures 30–34.</b> Female genitalia of <i>Charadra</i> species. <b>30</b> <i>C. franclemonti</i> paratype, Madera Cyn., Santa Rita Mtns., AZ <b>3Ι</b> <i>C. tapa</i> paratype, Ramsey Cyn., Huachuca Mtns., AZ <b>32</b> <i>C. moneta</i> paratype, Walnut Cyn., Coconino Co., AZ <b>33</b> <i>C. deridens</i>, Morehead, KY <b>34</b> <i>C. dispulsa</i>, Sinton, TX. <b>Description.</b> Female unknown. Forewing length 19.7 mm. <i>Head, thorax and abdomen</i> – as in <i>C. franclemonti</i>, differing in the following characters: vestiture much paler grey, nearly white; thorax with margin of tegulae and patagia bordered with black scales. Forewing light grey, distal third powdery whitish grey; reniform spot not discernible, reniform area entirely whitish; orbicular broadly oval, whitish with brown diffuse central area; subterminal line poorly defined medially by irregular white line, black scales at costal and anal margin, expanded to a thick, prominent line at anal margin. <i>Male genitalia</i> (Fig. 25) – Valves simple, subquadrate apically with a strongly incurved, scoop-shaped dorsocaudal apex; costal process absent; clasper a simple scoop-shaped process about 1/6 length of dorsal valve margin, with broad surface directed dorso- cephalad; sacculus unmodified; uncus strongly constricted medially and apex bifid, with an overall Y-shaped appearance; tegumen expanded dorsally; saccus V-shaped; juxta triangular; subscaphium strongly sclerotized; aedeagus 3 × longer than wide, with a very wide, dorsally directed opening to vesica, opening about 1/3 total length of aedeagus; vesica directed at about 90 degrees to aedeagus; cornuti usually placed on base of vesica and fused laterally to aedeagus, so aedeagus armed distolaterally with two stout, laterally projecting spines, left one placed slightly more apically; one medial and one distal diverticulum of similar size, oriented dorsally. <b>Distribution and biology.</b> Known only from the two specimens of the type series, collected in mid-June at San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
description: Published as part of <i>Schmidt, Christian &amp; Anweiler, Gary, 2010, The North American species of Charadra Walker, with a revision of the Charadra pata (Druce) group (Noctuidae, Pantheinae), pp. 161-181 in ZooKeys 39 (39)</i> on pages 173-175, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.39.432, http://zenodo.org/record/576639