Fulvocompe guatemalensis

Fulvocompe guatemalensis Laguerre sp. n BOLD:AAE1394

ZooBank:https://zoobank.org/ 1A0C04C0-D72F-48DC-B9A4-7F6EAA748382

Holotype, ♂, GUATEMALA. SUCHITEPÉQUEZ, Finca Tarralès , 7-V-2007, 1030m, 14°32.00'N 91°08.803'W, M. Laguerre leg. Dissected, Gen. ML 1714. Sequenced, Sample ID MILA 1005 (yellow printed label) – BOLD Process ID ARCTB346-08. Will be deposited in MNHN. GoogleMaps

Paratypes (42 ♂, 2 ♀)

GUATEMALA

2 ♂, SUCHITEPÉQUEZ, same data as holotype, one was sequenced, Sample ID MILA 1025 (yellow printed label) – BOLD Process ID ARCTB366-08. All in MLC GoogleMaps .

3 ♂, SUCHITEPÉQUEZ, Pente sud du volcan Atitlan, Réserve Refugio del Quetzal , 13-14-IX-2010, 1556 m, 14°32'52,6'' N 91°11'37,4'' W, B. Vincent leg. GoogleMaps

2 ♂, BAJA VERAPAZ, Ranchitos del Quetzal, Route de Guatemala City à Coban , Km 160, 3,4 kms avant Purulha , 02-IX-2010, 1634 m, 15°12'57,3'' N 90°13'08,5'' W, B. Vincent leg. GoogleMaps

1 ♂, SUCHITEPÉQUEZ, Réserve Volcan Atitlan, Los Tarrales (14 kms nord Patulul), 18-X-2014, 1020m, 14°32'02' N 91°08'51'' W, B. Vincent leg.

1 ♂, same data but 12-IX-2010, B. Vincent leg.

3 ♂, SAN MARCOS, Refugio del Quetzal, Bojonal, Route San Marcos à La Fraternidad , Km 168.5, 20-X-2014, 1800 m, 14°56'17'' N 91°52'27'' W, Quentin Rome leg. All in BVC GoogleMaps .

2 ♂, SUCHITEPÉQUEZ, Finca Mocà, Volcan Atitlan , 5-V-2000, 1800 m, J. Monzon leg.

2 ♂, same data but V-2000 . 1 ♂, BAJA VERAPAZ, Santa Rosa, Finca Miramundo, 28-V-1999, Schuster, Bailey, Monzon, Cano, Villaloro leg.

1 ♂, HUEHUETENANGO, Soloma, Cerro Cruz Martin , 16-V-2002, 1800 m, J. Monzon leg.

1 ♂, BAJA VERAPAZ, Km 156 on rd. to Coban , VII-1992, 1500 m, P. Hubbell leg.

1 ♂, BAJA VERAPAZ, Purulha, Biotopo del Quetzal , 28-IX-2000, 1600 m, Monzon y Copaland leg.

12 ♂, SUCHITEPÉQUEZ, Santa Barbara, Refugio del Quetzal , UVG, 1600 m, 14.54175985 N 91.19729498 W GoogleMaps ,

7-VII-2008 (1 ♂),

20-30-IX-2007 (2 ♂),

8-15-X-2007 (3 ♂),

20-25-IV-2008 (3 ♂),

30-VII-2008 (2 ♂),

20-IX-2009 (1 ♂).

All in UVGC.

2 ♂, same data but 29-III-2009 and 23-VII-2009, Camposeco y Monzon leg., will be deposited in YPM .

7 ♂, 1 ♀, same data but 9-10-V-2016 .

3 ♂, same data but 6-VI-2019 .

2 ♂, 1 ♀, same data but 27-III-2017. All in Maishe Dickman collection .

Diagnosis. – Very difficult to distinguish from the species of the F. nemophila / neurophylla complex. The locality and the male genitalia are diagnostic, as well as the sequence.

Male description ( Fig. 28)

Antennae thin, black and shortly ciliate. Head with frons dark brown, vertex beige. Palpi, short and dark brown. Tegulae, patagia and thorax beige and hairy. Abdomen brownish orange with each segment, except the first two, bearing a large black band, below entirely brownish orange. Forewings mustard yellow with a complex pattern of black lines and spots thinly lined with yellowish-beige. The veins contrasting, yellowish beige. On costa four wide black elongated streaks. A post basal black undulated line below cell. Then a pair of undulated lines of black streaks going from inner margin to costa with a large complex of spots at the end of cell. A submarginal line of oval black spots from near tornus to near apex. Each spot crossed in the middle by a yellowish vein and circled by a yellowish halo. Hindwings light mustard yellow with a transverse median line of diffuse greyish spots and a submarginal line of oval greyish spots from anal angle to apex, each spot being crossed by a yellowish vein. Underside identical to upper side but background lighter on forewings.

Female. – Similar to male but larger and darker.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 29)

Genital capsule ovoid. Segment VIII weakly sclerotized. Tergite VIII trapezoidal. Uncus wide and flattened. Laterally with a hooked tip. Vinculum rounded. Saccus narrow and pointed. Valvae short hardly reaching the basis of uncus. They are wide and slightly bent inwardly, shaped as a sickle with a blunt and strong tooth in middle pointing inward. Juxta wide, narrowed at 2/3 and deeply concave on top. Transtilla present as two narrow horizontal bars. Aedeagus cylindrical slightly bent in middle. Caecum penis present. Asingle lobed and sinuous vesica, bearing a dense area of thin cornuti at base and along a longitudinal line on basal third of the vesica.

Early stages. – Unknown.

Etymology. – By reference to the type locality.

Distribution. – Presently known only from Guatemala on the two sides of the Central Range and at mid-altitudes. In BVC there is a single male collected in Colima ( Mexico) but the habitus is lighter, less contrasted and more study and material will be necessary to insure a correct identification.

Discussion. – Despite a habitus similar to many species of the complex nemophila / neurophylla , the barcode of this species is well remote from the other species of the group: at least 6.4 % from the entity found in Costa Rica and at least 8.1 % from several entities present in the Andean Cordillera. The large genetic difference from specimens from Costa Rica is really striking despite the short distance between the two countries. The large difference in the respective fauna of these two countries has been already found several times, especially for the subtribe Pericopina for which it is hardly possible to find two species in common ( Laguerre , 2017).