Anopinella parambana Brown and Adamski, new species

Anopinella parambana Brown and Adamski, new species

Figs. 8, 64

Diagnosis. Anopinella parambana can be distinguished from other species in the genus by the considerably longer, more truncate outer margin of the distal lobes of the gnathos and by the nearly triangular cucullus, both of which appear to represent autapomorphies for the species.

Description. Head: Frontoclypeus and vertex pale brown [labial palpi missing]. Antenna with scape pale brown; basal 5 flagellomeres brown; distal flagellomeres pale brown.

Thorax: Tegula and mesonotum reddish brown intermixed with pale brown and brown. Forewing (Fig. 64) length 7.5 mm (n = 1); incomplete basal fascia and costal blotch brown intermixed with pale brown and pale reddish brown, separated by an oblique pale band of white intermixed with few reddish brown scales demarcating anterior part of basal fascia and costal blotch to slightly beyond CuP, recurved from distal costa through subapical area to tornus, encircling an elongate ocellus, except for posterior part; ocellus brown; costal blotch subtriangular, with a small, oblong, white spot near posterior end; area between CuP and posterior margin brown intermixed with pale reddish brown and pale brown; apical area pale brown; submarginal area narrow. Fringe brown [mostly absent]. Hindwing brown.

Abdomen: Male genitalia (Fig. 8; drawn from BMNH slide 29091; n = 1) with uncus slightly curved subapically. Socius slightly broadened, ca. 0.75 length of gnathos arms. Gnathos gradually widening from ca. 0.33 length, forming two large, laterally flattened, fan­like distal lobes with serrate and truncate margins. Valva densely setose from cucullus to basal ridge; ventral margin broadly concave beyond sacculus, recurved to apicoventral angle; cucullus longer than wide, triangular, narrowly acuminate, outer margin nearly straight from apex to apicoventral margin. Phallus simple; vesica densely microtrichiate. Female unknown.

Holotype, ɗ, Ecuador, Paramba, Jan­May 1897, Rothschild Bequest, BM 1939­1. Deposited in BMNH.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the collecting locality of Paramba, Ecuador.