Doina annulata Clarke 1978

Doina annulata

Alar expanse 24 mm.

Labial palpus fuscous, narrowly buff on the inside posteriorly. Antenna light gray color, the light clay color almost obscured by fuscous annulations; scape fuscous except for buff apex posteriorly. Head grayish clay color. Thorax mixed clay color and fuscous. Forewing ground color light clay color; from extreme base of costa to fold a short black, transverse dash; from fold to costa basal two-thirds of wing marked with fuscous and black scales, especially along fold and between end of cell and costa; in middle of cell a black dash followed at end of cell by a similarly colored L-shaped mark; before termen three ill-defined fuscous blotches; around apex, along termen to tornus, a series of fuscous dashes forming almost a continuous narrow line; cilia clay color mixed with fuscous. Hind wing olive buff with narrow grayish-fuscous terminal line; cilia similarly colored with a grayish-fuscous subbasal band. Foreleg buff heavily overlaid fuscous; midleg similar; hind leg buff with slight infuscation on outer side. Abdomen pale grayish with slight yellowish tinge; first segment almost wholly infuscated dorsally, other segments with only slight infuscation; ventrally buff, somewhat infuscated posteriorly.

Male genitalia slide USNM 24258. Harpe broadest at base, tapering gradually to a narrowly rounded cucullus; near base, in middle, a cluster of stout setae. Gnathos a broadly triangular spined knob. Uncus broadly hood shaped, slightly longer than tegumen. Vinculum narrowly U-shaped. Tegumen short, less than half the length of harpe, broader posteriorly than anteriorly. Anellus a sclerotized plate with a fleshly lobe on each side at base. Aedeagus robust, sharply bent, pointed distally; vesica armed with a cluster of long strong setae.

HOLOTYPE.—USNM 73706.

TYPE-LOCALITY.—Centro-Austral.

Described from the male holotype (Jan–Mar 1898, V. Izquerdo).

The markings of D. annulata are similar to those of Cryptolechia veniflua Meyrick, but are more sharply defined; and D. annulata is a much smaller insect. In genitalia D. annulata and D. subicula, new species, are very closely related but the vesica of D. annulata is armed with a cluster of strong cornuti, absent in D. subicula.

Doina annulata is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by John Frederick Gates Clarke in 1978. It is found in Chile.

The wingspan is about 24 mm. The forewings are light clay color. There is a short black, transverse dash from the extreme base of the costa to the fold and from the fold to the costa, the basal two-thirds of the wing are marked with fuscous and black scales, especially along the fold and between the end of the cell and the costa. In the middle of the cell is a black dash followed at the end of the cell by a similarly colored L-shaped mark and before the termen are three ill-defined fuscous blotches. Around the apex, along the termen to the tornus, is a series of fuscous dashes forming almost a continuous narrow line. The hindwings are olive buff with a narrow grayish-fuscous terminal line.