Cloesia zygaenoides ( Toulgoët, 1983 ), Laguerre & Espinoza S. & Janzen & Hallwachs, 2023

Cloesia zygaenoides ( Toulgoët, 1983) comb. n. BIN BOLD:AAL2055

Material examined

Holotype, ♂, French Guiana, environ de Saint-Jean-du-Maroni, I-1980. In MNHN, examined.

FRENCH GUIANA

1 ♂. Piste du Dégrad Florian, PK 14, 5-VIII-2003, 70 m, 5°26.870' N 53°31.348' W, M. Laguerre leg., dissected Gen. ML3610 (light-blue manuscript label), sequenced, Process ID ARCTA154-07, BOLD ID MILA 0154 (yellow manuscript label).

1 ♂, same data but PK 12 and 29-VII-2001.

1 ♂, Rte d'Apatou, 5-X-2015, 99 m, 5°15'50.7" N 54°12'01.3" W, M. Laguerre leg.

1 ♂, Piste du Plateau des Mines , 4-X-2015, 49 m, 5°20'42.6" N 54°04'32.0" W, M. Laguerre leg. GoogleMaps

1 ♂, Piste de Kaw, PK 38, 18-I-1996, M. Laguerre leg., dissected Gen. ML710 (white manuscript label).

1 ♂, same data but 21-I-1996 .

1 ♂, Piste de Bélizon, PK 27, 20-VII-2001, M. Laguerre leg.

1 ♂, Piste Coralie, PK7.4, 22-VII-2001, M. Laguerre leg.

1 ♂, Piste de Kaw, PK37 + 3.3, 31-VII-2001, M. Laguerre leg., dissected Gen. ML724 (white manuscript label).

1 ♂, same data but PK 37 + 2 and 30-VII-2003.

1 ♂, Piste de Kaw, PK32, 3-III-2005, M. Laguerre leg.

1 ♂, Piste de Kaw, PK15, 27-II-2005, M. Laguerre leg.

1 ♀, Piste de Kaw , PK 32+2.3, 2-VIII- 2003, 240 m, 4°34.325' N 52°11.460' W, M. Laguerre leg., dissected Gen. ML 727 (white manuscript label) GoogleMaps .

1 ♀, Piste de Bélizon , PK 20+1, 28-VII- 2003, 120 m, 4°17.613' N 52°24.385' W, M. Laguerre leg., dissected Gen. ML 3633 (light-blue manuscript label) GoogleMaps .

All in MLC.

Diagnosis. – A dark grey species with light grey hindwings displaying two successive undulations on termen. The androconial pouch is long and wide, filled with buff-yellow hairs. The male genitalia are characteristic with strong rounded processes on tegumen at the base of uncus.

Male ( Fig. 13 a-b)

Forewing length: 12-13 mm.Antennae black, thin and ciliate. Head, tegulae, thorax and patagia black with a dull purplish hue. Palpi short and black. Abdomen black with a strong steel blue suffusion. Legs black with a dull bluish reflection. Forewings dark grey with a dull purplish hue. Hindwings light grey with a thin black border. The termen with two successive undulations. The androconial pouch present and large, full of buff-yellow hairs. Underside as upper side, the androconial pouch present as a blackish oval patch.A greenish blue reflection on the apical area of forewings.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 14 a-d)

Uncus long and thin, slightly ovoid in middle, with a strong spine pointing below. The tegumenexpansions stronglysclerotized, almosthalf circular, largely going down ventrally.The valvae reaching the base of uncus, base enlarged with a triangular expansion inward, constricted in middle, the terminal part narrowed, clearlybentinward,with asmall spine atbase.Vinculum narrowed witha short triangular saccus.Juxta reaching half the valvae, shaped as a flame with a blunt extremity. Transtilla almost invisible. Aedeagus short, bulbous with a single lobed vesica at 90°.A patch of strong cornuti at the beginning of the lobe.

Female ( Fig. 13 c-d)

Forewing length: 13-14 mm. Similar to male but all four wings dull dark grey. Hindwing without undulations and devoid of the androconial pouch.

Female genitalia ( Fig. 12c)

Papillae anales subtrapezoidal, apophyses long and thin, the anteriores slightly longer than the posteriores. Antrum and ductus bursa slightly sclerotized, first narrow then largely expansed and slightly spiculate. Near the junction of ductus bursa and bursa copulatrix, presence of a short cylindrical process pointing outside. Bursa copulatrix smooth, almost spherical with an oval verrucate signum depressed in the middle.

Early stages. – Unknown.

Distribution. – Presently known from French Guiana where the species is common.

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