Lycopale radioheadi, Montoya, 2024

Lycopale radioheadi sp. nov.

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Type material. HOLOTYPE: Adult J, pinned. Original label: “COLOMBIA, Antioquia, Sonsón, Vereda Nori Cerro Nori ” / “ 5,812861, -75,268444, 3022–3045 m [eters], Paramo, Red entomológica [Net] ” / “ 1–12.ix.2018, A.M.Echeverry; A.L.Montoya ”.“ HOLOTYPE / Lycopale radioheadi sp. nov. / Montoya 2023” [red, handwritten except the first line] ( CEUA 103529 , dissected) . PARATYPES: COLOMBIA: Antioquia, Belmira, Paramo Santa Inés, Vereda Río Arriba, Sector Laguna de Sabanas, 6.640931, -75.665335, 2850–2950 m, Bosque, Red entomológica [Net], 16–27.ix.2017, A. L. Montoya (1 J, CEUA 103258); … Paramo, flying around Taraxacum officinale (L.) Weber ex F.H.Wigg., Prim. Fl. Holsat., 25.iii.–5.iv.2017,A. L. Montoya; C. Rodríguez; J. D.Carmona (1 J, CEUA 93560); Cabaña Cabildo Verde, El Morro-Alto de La Gallina, 6.632639, -75.645267, 3170–3200 m, Paramo, Trampa de Emergencia [Emergency trap], Decomposing wood log, 12–14.iv.2016, A. L. Montoya; J. Torres; J. D. Carmona (1 ♀, CEUA 95143); Bello, San Félix, Las Baldías, 6.33931, -75.60801, 2950–3150 m, Paramo, Red entomológica [Net], 17.ii.2013, A. L. Montoya (1 J, CEUA 73227); Bello, San Félix, Las Baldías, 6.33931, -75.60801, 2950–3150 m, Paramo,Red entomológica [Net], 23.v.2015 (1J, CEUA 87185); Sonsón,Vereda Nori Cerro Nori, 5.809667, -75.269028, 2840–2853 m, Bosque, Trampa malaise suelo [Malaise trap ground], 31.iii–7.vii.2018,A.L. Montoya; J. P.Carmona (1 ♀, CEUA 103427); Sonsón, Vereda San Francisco, Cerro Las Palomas A, 5.725443, -75.263638, 2927–2980 m, Potrero, Red entomológica [Net], 2–19.ii.2019, J. Sauceda; I. Ceballos; M.I. Salinas; D.Uchima &A.Mejía (1 J, CEUA 114094, ZFMK-DNA-FD119585551, GenBank PP979582. ECUADOR: Napo Province,Reserva Ecológica Antisana, Jumandy Inca trail, from Virgen de Guacamayos to Sector Sarayacu, from -0.625461, -77.841658 to -0.692165, -77.820256, 1305–2260m, 2.ix.2019, leg. X. Mengual (1 ♀, ZFMK-DIP-00068601, INABIO).

Length. Body 10.2–10.6 mm; wing 7.4–10.8 mm.

Diagnosis. Lycopale radioheadi sp. nov. is similar to Lycopale lizeri but can be separated from it by facial vitta and gena yellow ( Figs 7a–b View Fig , 8a View Fig ); antenna orange, except for dorsally brown postpedicel ( Figs 7a–b View Fig , 8a View Fig ); postpronotum black pruinose ( Figs 7b–c View Fig , 8a View Fig , 9h View Fig ); scutum with two submedial and one medial grayish white vittae reaching 3/4 of scutum length ( Figs 7b–c View Fig , 8a View Fig , 9h View Fig ); pre-scutellum extensively black, without vitta ( Fig. 9h View Fig ); wing hyaline, except for light orange brown anteriorly ( Figs 7b–c View Fig , 8a View Fig ); metafemur bright orange, except for light reddish brown on apical 1/2 ( Figs 7a–c View Fig , 8a View Fig ); second tergum orange, with basal maculae occupying the full lateral width and extending medially into a triangular basomedial black vitta ( Figs 7b–c View Fig , 8a View Fig , 9h View Fig ).

Description. Male. Head ( Figs 7a–b View Fig , 8a View Fig ). Face orange yellow with broad orange medial vitta, yellow pilose; gena orange, yellow pilose and pruinose; frontal triangle brown, black and yellow pilose; vertical triangle black, black pilose; eyes bare, narrowly dichoptic, separated from eye margin by at least ocellus width; occiput white pruinose and pilose, except for a few black piles dorsally. Antenna: orange, except for postpedicel brown on dorsal 1/3; arista light yellow and pubescent.

Thorax ( Figs 7b–c View Fig , 8a View Fig , 9h View Fig ). Dull black; postpronotum yellowish pilose; scutum with two submedial and one medial grayish white vitta from base, reaching 3/4 scutum length, yellow and black pile intermixed; pleuron dark grey pruinose, yellow pilose, except for dorsally black pilose posterior anepisternum; scutellum orange, black pilose; calypter white, border brown, brown pilose marginally; plumula orange; halter pedicel white; capitulum white.

Wing ( Figs 7b–c View Fig , 8a View Fig ). Hyaline except for light orange brownish anteriorly; extensively microtrichose; tegula black pilose, basicosta orange pilose.

Legs ( Figs 7a–c View Fig , 8a View Fig ). Orange, orange pilose, coxae and trochanters dark grey pruinose and golden pilose; pro- and mesofemur golden pilose, except for black pilose on posterodorsal margin; metafemur bright orange, orange pilose, except for black pile ventrally, in addition to some black pile on apicodorsal 1/4; hind tibia with some black pile on basoventral 1/3.

Abdomen ( Figs 7b–c View Fig , 8a View Fig , 9h View Fig ). Orange, orange and black pilose; first tergum black, grey pruinose, long orange pilose; second tergum orange, with basal maculae occupying full lateral width and extending medially into triangular basomedial black vitta, orange pilose, except for black pile on apicolateral margin and medially; third to fourth terga with orange, with triangular diamond-shape basomedial black vitta, orange pilose, except for black pile on apicolateral margin and medially; fifth tergum orange, orange pilose; sterna orange, orange pilose; male genitalia as Figs 8c–e View Fig , orange to brown, grayish pruinose and orange golden pilose.

Female ( Figs 7d–f View Fig , 8b View Fig ). Similar to male, except for normal sexual dimorphism and the following: antennae darker than in male; abdominal maculae triangular, approximately equilateral, comparatively shorter than in male; fifth tergum with triangular macula. Body length 9.7–10.1 mm; wing 7.3–9.9 mm.

Differential diagnosis. Lycopale radioheadi sp. nov. keys out to Lycopale lizeri in the keys of THOMPSON (2012). Lycopale radioheadi sp. nov. can be separated from L. lizeri by facial vitta and gena yellow (versus facial vitta and gena black in L. lizeri ); antenna orange, except for dorsally brown postpedicel (versus antenna ferruginous, yellowish in L. lizeri ); postpronotum black pruinose, Fig. 9h View Fig (versus postpronotum yellow pruinose in L. lizeri , Fig. 9e View Fig ); scutum with two submedial and one medial grayish white vittae from base, reaching 3/4 scutum length, Fig. 9h View Fig (versus scutum with three submedial golden pruinose vittae throughout the entire scutum length, confluent with a transverse vitta before scutellum base in L. lizeri , Fig. 9e View Fig ); pre-scutellum extensively black, without vitta, Fig. 9h View Fig (versus pre-scutellum orange, rectangular and confluent with longitudinal vittae in L. lizeri , Fig. 9e View Fig ); wing hyaline, except for light orange brown anteriorly (versus wing hyaline in L. lizeri ); metafemur bright orange, except for light reddish brown on apical 1/2 (versus metafemur brownish basally and orange on apical 1/2 or more in L. lizeri ); second tergum orange, with basal maculae occupying the full lateral width and extending medially into a triangular basomedial black vitta (versus second tergum black grey, covered with a deeply black pubescence except for a transverse median line which widens on the edges and in the midline in L. lizeri ).

Etymology. The specific epithet radioheadi is given in honor of the English rock band Radiohead (formed in 1985), for their extraordinary music, considered one of the most influential bands in contemporary alternative rock. Radiohead is an environmental activist band that raises awareness of climate change and socio-political issues. Their melodies were a source of inspiration and an excellent company while conducting this study. The species name is a masculine noun in the genitive case.

Distribution and natural history. Lycopale radioheadi sp. nov. is only known from the type localities in the Magdalena Valley and Eastern Mountain range Real Montane Forests ecoregions. The species is restricted to pristine forests and Paramo ecosystems (sky islands) in the Paramo complexes of Santa Ines Belmira and Sonsón at elevations between 2840 and 3020 m in isolated areas in northwestern Central Mountain range in Colombia and eastern slope of Eastern Mountain range in Ecuador ( Figs 10–11 View Fig View Fig ). The habitats where the specimens were collected are covered mainly by shrubby plants and inhabited by endemic species ( Figs 1a–g View Fig ).