Microcompe naumanni, Laguerre, 2023

Microcompe naumanni Laguerre sp. n.

BOLD:ADX7149

ZooBank:https://zoobank.org/ 4DB711D1-9EC5-4727-964B-266B01B910B1

Female. – Unknown.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 10)

Male genitalia very tiny and not strongly sclerotized. Tergite VIII weakly sclerotized shaped as a truncated triangle. Tegumen as a rounded rectangle. Uncus long and triangular, slightly undulate laterally with a tip shaped as a bird's beak. Valvae small, elongated with a rounded tip, not reaching the base of uncus. Transtilla present as two rounded lobes. Juxta as a rounded rectangular plate. Saccus very small. Aedeagus small, narrow and cylindrical with a very slightly scobinate simple vesica.

Early stages. – Unknown.

Etymology. – Named in honour of Stefan Naumann who collected the original series in a very difficult area.

Distribution. – Up to now, known only at very high altitudes (above 3,700 m) in the Cuchumatanes Mountains in Western Guatemala ( Fig. 23).

Discussion. – A very small species distantly related to other species except maybe H. minasi sp. nov. which is nevertheless at a distance of 10.2 %.

Holotype, ♂, GUATEMALA. HUEHUETENANGO, Cordillera de los Cuchumatanes, Todos Santos Cuchumatán , Xemal , Laguna Ordóñez , 3724 m, 24.IV.2017, N 15°30.549'W 91°32.893', J. Monzon y S. Naumann leg. Gen. ML 2886 (light-blue manuscript label), Sample ID MILA 2206 (yellow printed label) – BOLD Process ID ARCTD1342-19. Will be deposited in MNHU.

Paratypes, 5 ♂, Same data as holotype, in MLC .

Diagnosis. – A tiny and hirsute species with black forewings stripped with white streaks and bands and very dark grey hindwings.

Male description ( Fig.22)

Antennae short, black and slightly ciliate. Head and thorax very hairy. Frons black and vertex with long white hairs. Tegulae very hairy black. Patagia very hairy black with long dirty white hairs anteriorly. Thorax black very hairy, underside dark grey. Abdomen very hairy upper side, dark grey with a reddish orange lateral band, first segments with side covered by long greyish hairs. Underside creamy-white with the anal tuft black. Femurs of legs reddishorange. Forewings with rounded apex, black with a thin pattern of creamy-white streaks and bands.The veins slightly lined with yellow. Hindwings plain dark grey, costa with two rectangular dirty white patches, the inner border of the cell slightly suffused with yellow. Underside identical to upper side except the forewings which are dark grey and not black.