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

description: 24. Sparganothoides morata (Walsingham)   
Figs. 30, 54, 86  
 Sparganothis morata Walsingham 1913: 223.   
 Sparganothoides morata; Powell 1986: 376; Powell et al. 1995: 150; Brown 2005: 564.   
 Diagnosis. Sparganothoides morata is superficially most similar to S. torusana and S. prolesana, but males of S. morata lack the basal forewing marking of those species.   
 Description. Male. Head: Frons brownish yellow to brownish orange, smooth scaled; vertex roughened, brownish yellow to brownish orange, two small exoskeletal protuberances between the mesal-posterior margins of eyes, dense clump of small pale brownish yellow scales between protuberances, extending mesally along vertex between eyes and antennae to near clypeus. Labial palpus brownish yellow mesally, brownish yellow and brownish orange laterally. Antennal scaling brownish yellow. Thorax: Dorsum smooth scaled, brownish yellow to brownish orange; tegula with clump of small, yellow, pointed scales at apex so that tegula appears truncate. Forewing length 5.8–6.0 mm (= 5.9; n = 3). Forewing ground color predominantly brownish yellow to brownish orange, with brownish orange to brown speckling; costal fold extending greater than one-half forewing length; costa dark brown near base; indistinct brownish orange transverse strigulae throughout subterminal and terminal areas; dark brown tornal patch from discal cell to margin; dark brown spot at apex of discal cell. Fringe brownish yellow to brownish orange. Hindwing brownish gray to gray with diffuse gray; frequently with transverse strigulae in apical and distal regions. Abdomen: Genitalia (Fig. 30; slide #JJK163; NMNH; Venezuela, Barinitas; n = 2) with uncus long, slender, deeply bifurcate, with sparse, long setae dorsally and short setae ventrally from bifurcation; tegumen not raised, triangular at base of uncus; socius rounded posteriorly, secondary arms slender, sclerotized, curved before enlarged, strongly asymmetrically bilobed apices; transtilla strongly sclerotized, unilobed at center, spines short, numerous over most of posterior margin, enlarged anterior process reinforced with invagination at middle; valva ovate with gently arched sclerotized crease near middle, costa convex, sacculus convex, pulvinus present; phallus pistolshaped, aedeagus shorter than phallobase, parallel-sided with dorsal hump subapically, tip attenuate and cleft subapically, attached to juxta by a thin process, phallobase long with small bulb; cornuti with long spine at base.   
 Female. Head, Thorax: Essentially as described for male. Forewing length 5.9–7.1 mm (= 6.5; n = 10). Abdomen: Genitalia (Fig. 54; slide #88258; NMNH; Venezuela, Aragua, Rancho Grande; n = 6) with papillae anales parallel-sided, rounded posteriorly; sterigma narrow, lightly sclerotized ventrally, entire plate straight to concave anteriorly; ductus bursae short, widened anteriorly; corpus bursae subequal in size to ovipositor complex above ductus bursae, irregularly rounded; signum more than three times as long as wide, weakly curved, weakly lobed near ends on inside of curve, attenuate at apices.   
 Type material. Holotype: Female: PANAMA: CHIRIQUI: Volcán de Chiriqui, 2000–3000 m, 1881, G. Champion (BMNH).   
 Additional specimens examined (3♂, 13♀). PANAMA: CHIRIQUI: Volcán de Chiriqui, 2000–3000 m, 1881 (1♀), G. Champion (BMNH). TRINIDAD: no further data, vi[no year] (1♀), A. Busck (NMNH). Montserrat, [no date] (1♀), W. Schaus (NMNH). VENEZUELA: Aragua, Rancho Grande, 1100 m, 11–15.i.1966 (2♀), 16–19.i.1966 (1♀), 21–25.i.1966 (2♀), 16–23.x.1966 (1♂), 24–31.x.1966 (4♀), 1–5.xi.1966 (1♀), S. & D. Duckworth (NMNH), 30–31.iii.1978 (1♂), J. Heppner (NMNH). Barinitas, 22–26.ii.1969 (1♂), D. Duckworth & Dietz (NMNH).   
 Immature stages. Unknown.   
 Biology. Adults have been captured from October through March, suggesting that the species is multivoltine.   
 Distribution. Sparganothoides morata is recorded from Panama, Venezuela, and Trinidad.   
 Remarks. A single male from Castro, Paraná, southern Brazil, 1898, Jones (Walsingham collection, number 67438, BMNH) was examined by Lambert (1950). From his description, this specimen is either conspecific or closely related to S. morata. The shape of the tegumen at the base of the uncus is variable in the degree of elongation.
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 48-50, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2150.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5311432