Microcompe minasi, Laguerre, 2023

Microcompe minasi Laguerre sp. n.

BOLD:AAU3638

ZooBank:https://zoobank.org/ 969E3B4C-A3F6-45AA-9C83-C7E4AD96040F

Holotype, ♂, GUATEMALA. ZACAPA, Cerro Monos , 1-3-VI-2009, 2250 m, 15.11593° -89.68541°, J. Monzon leg. Gen. ML 1944 (white manuscript label), Sample ID MILA 1509 (yellow printed label) – BOLD Process ID ARCTD004-11.

Paratypes

2 ♀, same data as holotype, sequenced Sample ID MILA 1510 (yellow printed label) – BOLD Process ID ARCTD005-11 and Sample ID MILA 1511 (yellow printed label) – BOLD Process ID ARCTD006-11. All in MLC .

1 ♂, EL PROGRESO, Cerro Piñalon , Cabañas, 1-V-2009, 2568 m, 15.084070° -89.942770°, Monzon y Camposeco leg.

1 ♂, ZACAPA, Cerro Monos , 19-21-V-2010, 2250 m, 15.11593° -89.68541°, J. Monzon, B. Sutton, G. Steck y P. Skelley leg., in UVGC .

Diagnosis. – A tiny and very hairy species inhabiting the high altitudes. Forewings mostly black with the veins outlined with yellow. Hindwings plain dark grey. Females noticeably larger with pattern more invaded by white patches including the basal and discal areas on hindwings. Below identical to upper side but forewings background more greyish than black.

Male description ( Fig. 24)

Antennae long, thin and black, shortly ciliate Head and thorax very hairy. Frons black and vertex with long whitish hairs. Tegulae very dark brown with two tiny yellowish dots behind the head. Patagia dark greyish brown interspersed with long whitish hairs. Thorax dark greyish brown interspersed with long whitish hairs, undersidedarkgreyishbrown and very hairy.Femurs reddish. Forewings almost entirely dark grey with veins outlined with yellow. Arestrained pattern of white dots or patches, essentially on costa near apex, on termen close to the margin and on vein CuA 2. Hindwings entirely dark grey except two tiny whitish dots on costa. Underside identical to upper side.

Female ( Fig. 24). – Noticeablylarger and lighter than the male. Antennae thin and black. On forewings the veins are outlined with orange. The black pattern is identical to the male but much more narrower giving a whitish appearance. A post basal angled white fascia and the postmedian area is spotted with white dots up to the termen. Hindwings greyish with white patches at base and near the anal angle.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 25)

Male genitalia tiny and not strongly sclerotized. Tergite VIII weakly sclerotized shaped as a trapezoidal plate. Tegumen ovoid. Uncus long and triangular, slightly undulate laterally with a tip shaped as a bird's beak. Valvae small, elongated with a spatulate tip, notreaching the base of uncus. Transtilla present as two weakly sclerotized circular lobes. Juxta as a subrectangular plate with a wide triangular top. Saccus very small. Aedeagus small, narrow and cylindrical with a very slightly scobinate simple vesica perpendicular to aedeagus.An arched ridge of cornuti at the base of vesica.

Early stages. – Unknown.

Etymology. – By reference to the locality of the type series: Sierra de las Minas, a long mountain range in the East of Guatemala.