Leptonema michoacanense Flint, McAlpine & Ross 1987

Leptonema michoacanense

MALE.—Color brown; forewing indistinctly infuscate along chord. Length of forewing 15–19 mm.

Malar space broad, slightly less than height of eye. Parafacial and postocular areas about width of malar; postocular area with a row of 4–7 stout setae. Maxillary palpus with apical segment length of basal 4 segments combined. Process of fifth sternum large, ovoid.

Genitalia: Tenth tergum with wart a short, erect; warts b1 and b2 short; lateral lobe broad, apex rounded. Clasper with apical segment short, terete; basal segment 4 times as long as apical, base unmodified. Phallobase elongate, expanded dorsad and laterad subapically; a barely produced, mostly membranous; b elongate, curving basad and ventrad; c short, arising basolaterally from b, barely surpassing g dorsally; g a large, lightly sclerotized, quadrate lobe.

FEMALE.—Similar to male. Forewing length 15–20 mm.

TYPES.—Holotype (male): MEXICO, Edo. Michoacán, San Lorenzo, rt 15, km 206, 19 July 1966, Flint and Ortiz.

Paratypes: Same data, 11, 10; same, but 14–15 Jul 1966, 31, 7. Edo. México, Valle de Bravo, 21 Dec 1979, J. Padilla, 1; Halinalco, 15 Nov 1980, H. Brailovsky, 5, 3.

Holotype in USNM; paratypes in CNC, IBUNAM, and USNM.