Leptonema moselyi Flint, McAlpine & Ross 1987

Leptonema moselyi

Leptonema albovirens (Walker).—Mosely. 1933:46, fig. 130 [in part, variant from Cuernavaca, Mexico].

MALE.—Wings and body uniformly pale greenish, rapidly fading to brownish white. Forewing 11–13 mm.

Malar space very narrow, scarcely height of eye. Parafacial and postocular areas about as wide as malar; postocular area with a row of 2–6 stout setae. Maxillary palpus with fifth segment almost length of basal 4 segments combined. Processes of fifth sternum relatively small, elongate.

Genitalia: Tenth tergum with warts a and b small, apical in position; lateral lobe blade-like, extending as a flat plate beyond warts, apex obliquely truncate. Clasper with basal segment slightly more than three times as long as apical segment, with a few apicomesal spinose setae, without a basomesal lobe. Phallus with base angled; a protruding, bilobed in dorsal aspect; b erect or reflexed, serrate; c rather short, reflexed, serrate; d short, deflexed; e short, generally hooked apicad; g rounded, knob-like in both lateral and ventral aspects.

FEMALE.—Larger, forewing 15–17 mm. Lacking yellow cellule on vein Cu2.

TYPES .—Holotype (male): MEXICO, Edo. Morelos, Xochitepec, 12–14 Jul 1965, Flint and Ortiz.

Paratypes: Same data, 4, 2; Cuautla, 27 Jul 1937, A. Dampf (MF6247), 2, 3; same, but 28 Aug 1937, MF6248, l, 3; same, but 30 Aug 1937, MF6249, l, 6; same, but 31 Aug 1937, MF6250, 2, 6; same, but 2 Sep 1937, MF6259, 4, 3; same, but 23 Sep 1937, l, 11; Cuernavaca, 26 Mar 1932, A. Dampf (MF2492), l; same, but 13 May 1932, MF2570, l; 15 mi S Cuernavaca, 15 Dec 1946, E.S. Ross, l; Camomilas, 9 May 1942, A. Dampf (MF9697), l; Sn. Rafael Vicente Aranda, 26 Mar 1982, H. Velasco, 5, 4; same, but 2 Oct 1982, 3; Río Amacu-zac, Huajintlán, 28 May 1983, Porras and Castelrejón, 23; Ticumán, 8 Jan 1981, J. Bueno, 5; same, but 13–14 Mar 1981, 6; Morelos, 15 Mar 1977, l. Edo. México, Chapingo, 13 Jun 1924, A. Dampf (MF203), 2. Edo. Michoacán, San José de Purúa, 28 Apr 1979, J. Bueno, 8, 3; 5 mi W Apatazingán, 1200′, 13 Aug 1941, H. Hoogstraal, l, 1; same, but la Majada, moist jungle, 12 Aug 1941, l. Edo. Oaxaca, Tamazulapán, 7–8 Jun 1967, Flint and Ortiz, 7, 1. Edo. Durango, 23 mi S Durango, 6000′, 3 Jul 1964, W.R.M. Mason, l; Rt 45, Río Melones, Nombre de Dios, 17 Aug 1977, J. Bueno S., 10, 2. Mexico, [no further locality], A. Dampf (MF1704, 1738, 1557), 3.

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