Boenasa nigrorosea Walker, [1865]

Redescription of Boenasa nigrorosea Walker, [1865] View in CoL

BIN = BOLD: ABW9270

Material examined

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

1 ♂, Pedernales, Piste de Los Arroyos à El Aguacate, PK 5.2, 11-VIII-2007, 1990 m, 18°18.269'N 71°43.496'W, J. Haxaire & O. Paquit leg. Dissected Gen. ML3878 (light blue manuscript label) and sequenced sample ID MILA 1794 (yellow printed label), BOLD Process IDARCTD1281-19 GoogleMaps .

1 ♀, Independencia, SierradeBaorucoNationalPark , RoutePuertoEscondidoà Pedernales, Km 41.5, 12-V-2004, 1620 m, B. Vincent leg.All in MLC .

Diagnosis. – A small species with almost black forewings with a narrow red subterminal band and pinkish-red hindwings thinly bordered by black.

Male ( Fig. 2 View Fig on top)

FWL= 11 mm and WS = 23 mm. – Head. Antennae ciliate, black with the last third yellowish. Palpi black. Vertex yellow with reddish hairs. Patagia yellow, largely interspersed with reddish hairs. – Thorax. Thorax, including tegulae, black. – Abdomen. Abdomen upperside covered by bright red hairs, except portion of first abdominal tergum with gray-brown scales. Abdomen venter black in median area, with a few red scales on venter at posterior end. Legs blackish with the tarsi brown. – Wings. Forewings black, a tiny red dot hardly visible at the end of cell. A subterminal red streak roughly parallel to termen from below apex to above tornus. Hindwings plain pinkish red with a thin brownish black margin on costa and termen, nearly completely upturned with venter facing dorsally and vice versa. The tornus border with very long pinkish red hairs. Below similar to upperside, except the forewings lighter and the subterminal reddish streak hardly visible.

Genitalia male ( Fig. 3 View Fig )

Genitalia symmetrical. Uncus narrow and long, almost cylindrical, evenly bent downwards, the tip slightly pointed. Valvae very short, not reaching the base of uncus, slightly bent inwards, the extremity bifid. At the base of valvae a sharp tooth pointing inwardly. Juxta very slightly sclerotized. Presence of a narrow transtilla. Vinculum evenly rounded with a small saccus. Aedeagus cylindrical and straight with a conical vesica and three patches of cornuti: the first one near posterior edge of aedeagus with a line of six small cornuti, the second just before the middle of the vesica with 7–8 strong cornuti and the last one in the last third with 4–5 long and strong cornuti.

Female ( Fig. 2 View Fig below)

(FWL = 12 mm and WS = 25 mm). Similar to male but slightly larger and without upturned hindwings. The subterminal red band on forewings is narrower. On hindwings the background color is darker and the black margin is wider, especially on costa. Below on forewings the background color is lighter, more brown and the red subterminal band is faintly visible. The fore tarsi are beige.

Early stages. – Unknown.

Distribution. – Presently known from high altitude localities in the Sierras in the Southern part of the Dominican Republic.