Panthea reducta Anweiler 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Anweiler, Gary G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Pantheidae
Panthea
Panthea reducta

description: <i>Panthea reducta</i> Anweiler, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: B84ACB81-796A-43FD-89C9-BEFB55E0FFC4 Figs. 3, 47, 70 <b>Type material.</b> <b>Holotype</b> male – “Republica Dominicana: / Pedemales; P.N. Sierra de Bahoruco / Caseta 2; 18°12.24' N 71°31.11' W / 12 v 2004 <i>el.</i> 1790 m A Luz Murcurio / <i>coll</i>. D. Lawrie and C. Nuñez ”; HOLOTYPE / <i>Panthea reducta</i> / Anweiler” [red label]; deposited in CNC [for eventual return to Dominican Republic]. <b>Paratypes</b> – (4 ♁): Dominican Republic, same data as holotype, except 1 ♁, 11.vi.2004 [CNC – for eventual return to Dominican Republic]. <b>Etymology</b>. The name refers to the greatly reduced size and density of scales on the hindwing. <b>Diagnosis</b>. <i>P. reducta</i> can be recognized as a <i>Panthea</i> by the typical <i>Panthea</i> forewing pattern, and by structural characters including the reduced and apparently non- functional mouthparts and characteristic modified <i>Panthea</i> uncus. The glassy translucent hindwing is unique in <i>Panthea</i>. It is also the only <i>Panthea</i> known from the Caribbean. Females are unknown. <b>Description. Head</b> – male antenna bipectinate, pectinations about 2 × as long as width of antennal shaft; head and collar clothed in long dense white, lightgray, and brown-black hair-like scales. <b>Thorax</b> – with long dense white and black hair-like scales, tegulae crossed midway and along edge by poorly defined dark bands. <b>Dorsal forewing</b> – length 16-18 mm, (n=4), ground a mixture of white, gray-brown and black scales; basal line indicated by a small patches of black scales; antemedial line black, erratic, angled distad at anal vein; medial line broad, incomplete and poorly defined, most prominent as patches of black scales below cubital vein and at and below costa; postmedial line black, slightly erratic, angled outward below vein Cu2, defined by white scales bordering distal side; subterminal line parallel to postmedial line, starting at anal angle, almost obsolete and defined by white scales outlining distal border; fringe gray with bright white outer edge, checkered with white at veins. <b>Dorsal hindwing</b> – translucent, clothed in tiny hair-like black scales, some finely forked at the tip under magnification, mixed with sparse long dark hair, densest along inner margin; white scales confined to small area along upper and lower margin; fringe black, with white tips in some specimens, checkered at veins with white; wing membrane exposed by reduced scales, glassy, translucent, allowing the lettering on label below to be clearly discerned through wing. <b>Abdomen</b> – clothed in short stiff lead-gray and white hair-like scales. <b>Male genitalia</b> – (Fig. 47) valve simple, short and broad, approximately 2 × as long as wide; cucullus bluntly rounded; clasper well-developed, slightly flattened, rod-like with a blunt tip, about ½ as long as width of valve at midpoint; tegumen with pair of small subuncal lobes; uncus approximately 2 × as wide as high, resembling a duck’s beak; tapering gradually to a broad, blunt terminus; aedeagus short, thick, about 3 × as long as wide; inflated vesica bulbous, short, wide, shaped like a hammer head, armed with a single large sharp curved cornutus on dorsal side near base, oriented anteriorly; ductus seminalis exits near base of vesica on dorsal side. <b>Distribution and biology.</b> <i>P. reducta</i> has been collected at 1800 m elevation in a Hispaniolan pine (<i>Pinus occidentalis</i> Swartz) forest in Sierra de Bahoruco National Park in the Dominican Republic (Fig. 70). Hispaniolan pine is the presumed larval host.
description: Published as part of <i>Anweiler, Gary G., 2009, Revision of the New World Panthea Hübner (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) with descriptions of 5 new species and 2 new subspecies, pp. 97-134 in ZooKeys 9 (9)</i> on pages 104-105, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.9.157, http://zenodo.org/record/576456