Dolecta pushkini Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Naydenov, Artem E.
name: Yakovlev, Roman V.
name: Penco, Fernando C.
name: Sinyaev, Victor V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cossidae
Dolecta
Dolecta pushkini

description: 18. Dolecta pushkini Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev sp. nov.   
Figs 24, 53, 68, 79  
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 Material examined. Holotype ♂: Ecuador, Napo prov., Cordillera Guacamayos, 0°37′15"S; 77°49′28"W, 11.11.2011, H= 2181m. Leg. Viktor Sinyaev & Oleg Romanov (GenPr-Heterocera MWM 28.609) (MWM); Paratypes: 2 ♂♂, Colombia, Magdalena, Municipio de Minca, Vereda Bella Vista, Hostal Palo Alto. 11º05′47′′N / 74º04′34′′W, 24−28.xi.2014; H= 1680 m, leg. Sinyaev, Márquez & Machado, [coll.] Dr. R. Brechlin (GenPr-Heterocera MWM 37.164) (MWM); 1 ♂, Colombia, Boyacá, Vereda El Palmar, Parque Nacional El Virolín. 6º02′28′′N 73º13′18′′W, H= 2114 m, 25.11.2013. leg Victor Sinyaev & Mildred Márquez (Genital preparation №73, coll. Naydenov A.E.) (RYB); 1 ♂, Colombia (NE), Norte de Santander, road № 70, near Alto El Pozo. 8˚03′19"N / 73˚02′13"W. 21−24.vii.2017; H= 2250 m, leg. Victor Sinyaev (Genital preparation №76, coll. Naydenov A.E.) (RYB).   
 Description. Male. Length of fore wing 16 mm. Fore wing dark-grey with dense reticulated black pattern postdiscally and submarginally, basal and discal area heavily darkened, brown triangle portion postdiscally (at cubital veins), fringe grey unicolorous. Hind wing grey with dense black reticulated pattern throughout all wing, fringe mottled dark-brown at veins (in thick bundles), light-brown between veins.   
Male genitalia. Uncus robust, completely split by deep notch, halves of uncus apically rounded, of equal width along all length; gnathos arms very short, thin; costal edge of valve heavily curved, apically with long sharp process, abdominal edge heavily curved; juxta robust, scaphoid, with long tapered abdominal process apically rounded; saccus long, tapered, with poorly rounded process; phallus short, heavily curved on border between proximal and medium thirds, vesica without cornuti.  
Female. Unknown.  
 Diagnosis. Externally, the new species is mostly close to the species group of D. morosa (Schaus, 1911), D. nekrasovi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev sp. nov., D. ostrovskyi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev sp. nov. and D. rubtsovi Naydenov, Yakovlev, Penco & Sinyaev sp. nov. from which it differs by the brown triangle portion on the fore wing postdiscally (at cubital veins) and by the long sharp process on the costal edge of the valve apically.   
 Distribution. Ecuador, Colombia.   
 Etymology. The new species is named after the Russian poet, playwright, and novelist Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin.
description: Published as part of Naydenov, Artem E., Yakovlev, Roman V., Penco, Fernando C. & Sinyaev, Victor V., 2020, New data on Neotropical Carpenter-Moths of Subfamily Hypoptinae Neumoegen & Dyar, 1894 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). II. A review of the genus Dolecta Herrich-Schäffer, [1854], with description of seventeen new species, pp. 82-114 in Ecologica Montenegrina 35 on pages 104-105, DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.35.7, http://zenodo.org/record/13232251