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Dunama janecoxae Chacón

Description

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Male (Figs 39, 40, 43–45). Head – Antenna pectinate in basal 4/5, rami moderately long, reddish brown, distal fifth of shaft simple, gray brown with a mix reddish-brown scales, scape with scale tuft cream; frons with cream scales mixed with blackish-brown scales; labial palpus upcurved, blackish brown with a few scattered cream-colored scales; ocelli absent; vertex blackish brown, cream colored laterally; patagium blackish brown near midline, blackish brown laterally, margins cream colored. Thorax and abdomen – Tegula cream colored at base, a mix of cream and blackish-brown scales distally; mesoscutum blackish brown anteriorly, cream and blackish brown posteriorly; mesoscutellum mostly creamy white; thoracic pleuron cream colored; legs mostly blackish brown on outer surfaces, cream colored on inner surfaces. Abdominal dorsum light gray, venter cream colored. Wings – Dorsal ground color a mixture of gray-brown and beige scales; veins lined with gray, especially distally; anal fold and cubitus blackish brown; orbicular spot diffuse blackish brown; reniform spot small, blackish brown; M-line blackish brown, a wide, vaguely-defined beige band beyond it; PM-line thin, blackish brown, poorly defined; subterminal (St) line marks light brown, AD-line with spots ligth brown, fringe gray brown. Dorsal hindwing dirty gray brown, lighter near base. Ventral surfaces of both wings gray brown (Figs 39, 40). (WL 16.1–17.4 mm). Male genitalia (Figs 43–45) – St8 wide, short, anterior margin simple, posterior margin densely sclerotized with a rectangular shape lacking any process (Fig. 43). Uncus lobule-like with pubescent, thin socii prominently hooked. Valvae with smooth costal margin with a sclerotized, spine-like process near middle. Saccular margin slightly sclerotized at base with a notch in middle (Fig. 44). Phallus thin at base, expanding medially and heavily sclerotized distally, with a pair of small triangular projections, subopposite on each margin; vessica small and without cornuti (Fig. 45). Female (Figs 41, 42, 46) – Antenna filiform, shaft cream with a mix of reddish-brown scales; body color and wing pattern similar to male but wings longer (Figs 41, 42). (FW 18.3–18.7 mm). Female genitalia (Fig. 46) – Segment 8 forming a heavily sclerotized capsule; anterior apophyses acute; posterior apophyses tiny, CB small and rounded, signum absent; DB short; ostium recessed in St8. Ovipositor lobes acute and setose.
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Isidro A. Chacón, Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, J. Bolling Sullivan,  Mehrdad Hajibabaei
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Chacón I, Janzen D, Hallwachs W, J. Bolling Sullivan , Hajibabaei (2013) Cryptic species within cryptic moths: new species of Dunama Schaus (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) in Costa Rica ZooKeys 264: 11–45
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Isidro A. Chacón
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Daniel H. Janzen
author
Winnie Hallwachs
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J. Bolling Sullivan
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 Mehrdad Hajibabaei
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Distribution

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Dunama janecoxae is the upper elevational species of Dunama on the Cordillera Volcanica de Guanacaste, and the eastern slope of Cordillera de Tilaran and Talamanca, occurring from 1090 to 1185 m elevation (Fig. 85).
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Isidro A. Chacón, Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs, J. Bolling Sullivan,  Mehrdad Hajibabaei
bibliographic citation
Chacón I, Janzen D, Hallwachs W, J. Bolling Sullivan , Hajibabaei (2013) Cryptic species within cryptic moths: new species of Dunama Schaus (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) in Costa Rica ZooKeys 264: 11–45
author
Isidro A. Chacón
author
Daniel H. Janzen
author
Winnie Hallwachs
author
J. Bolling Sullivan
author
 Mehrdad Hajibabaei
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