(Figs. 271, 406, Map 50)
Diagnosis.— Hypatopa hora can be distinguished from other Hypatopa by having a dark-brown patch between base and submedian fascia of the forewing.
Description.—Head: Scales on vertex and frontoclypeus grayish brown tipped with pale grayish brown. Outer surface of labial palpus grayish brown intermixed with pale grayish-brown scales along apical margins of segments 1–2, inner surface paler. Antenna pale grayish brown. Proboscis pale grayish brown.
Thorax: Tegula pale grayish brown basally, grayish brown apically; mesonotum agouti patterned, with basal and apical 1 / 3 s brown, middle 1 / 3 pale brown. Legs brown intermixed with pale-brown scales near midsegments and along apical margins of all segments and tarsomeres. Forewing (Fig. 406): Length 5.0–7.1 mm (n = 2), pale brown intermixed with brown and dark-brown scales; a large dark-brown patch between base and submedian fasca; submedian fascia faint, complete; cell with three dark-brown spots, one near middle, two on apical end along crossvein; marginal spots faint. Undersurface brown. Hindwing: Translucent pale brown.
Abdomen: Male genitalia: Unknown. Female Genitalia (Fig. 271): Apophyses posteriores about 3 1 / 3 X longer than apophyses anteriores. Ostium bursae within densely microtrichiate membrane posterior to seventh segment; antrum slightly wider than posterior part of ductus bursae; inception of ductus seminalis equidistant between anterior and posterior margins of seventh sternum; posterior margin of seventh sternum straight. Ductus bursae slightly greater than 2 X longer than apophyses posteriores; slightly spinulate on anterior 1 / 5. Corpus bursae ovoid, sparsely spinulate; signum short, spinate, arising from small conical base.
Holotype, Ƥ, “ Est[ación] Cacao, 1000–1400 m, Lado SO Vol[can] Cacao, Prov[incia] Guan[acaste], COSTA RICA, C. Chaves, Mar[zo] 1991, L-N- 323300, 375700, “ INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI 000, 645670 [barcode label], “ INBio, Ƥ Genitalia Slide by D. Adamski, No. 4502 [yellow label].
Paratype Ƥ, “Est. Cacao, 1000–1400 m, Lado SO Vol. Cacao, Prov. Guan., COSTA RICA, C. Chaves, Mar. 1991, L-N- 323300, 375700, “ INBio: COSTA RICA: CRI 000, 645680, “Ƥ Slide No. 4503 [1 in USNM].
Distribution (Map 50). Hypatopa hora is known from one collecting site on the western most part of the Cordillera de Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica.
Etymology. The specific epithet hora is derived from the Latin meaning, an hour.