Dunama jessiebarronae Chacón

Male (Figs 15, 16, 19–21). Head – Antenna pectinate in basal 4/5, rami moderately long, black, distal fifth simple, shaft cream with a few reddish-brown scales, scape with scale tuft reddish brown and creamy; haustellum well developed, frons with a mix of creamy and reddish-brown scales; labial palpus upcurved, blackish brown with a few scattered cream-colored scales; ocelli absent; vertex cream, reddish brown laterally; patagium reddish brown near midline, blackish brown laterally, margins cream colored. Thorax and abdomen – Tegula cream colored at the base, a mix of cream and reddish-brown scales distally, mesoscutum reddish brown anteriorly, cream and reddish brown posteriorly, mesoscutellum mostly creamy white; thoracic pleuron cream colored to reddish brown; legs mostly reddish brown on outer surfaces, cream colored on inner ones. Abdominal dorsum light gray, venter cream colored. Wings – Forewing dorsal ground color cream at base, 2/3 black brown; a prominent black-brown, slightly oblique bar between base of reniform spot and base of inner margin of forewing in both sexes; veins lined with gray, especially distally; anal fold and cubitus blackish brown; orbicular spot diffuse, blackish brown; reniform spot small, blackish brown; M-line thin, blackish brown, a wide, vaguely-defined beige band beyond it; AD-line with blackish-brown spots, fringe gray brown. Ventral surfaces of both wings gray brown. Forewing costal margin cream ventrally. Hindwing dorsal dirty gray brown, lighter near base (Figs 15, 16). (WL 13.5–13.7 mm). Male genitalia (Figs 19–21) – T8 quadrate, posterior margin narrrowly sclerotized; St8 wide, short, anterior end with simple margin, posterior margin bearing a pair of long, widely-separated processes with serrate margins (Fig. 19). Uncus elongated lobule-like and lightly pubescent, socci thin and curved. Valva broad and membranous, with slightly undulating serrate saccular margin, inner surface with a small spine-like process near apex (Fig. 20). Phallus thin at base, widening and sclerotized distally, with a pair of opposite basal projections at base of sclerotized portion, which has a small subterminal projection on left side and a small finger-like terminal projection (Fig. 21). Vesica small. Female (Figs 17, 18, 22). Antenna filiform, shaft cream; body color and wing pattern similar to male but wings longer and darker (Figs 17, 18). (WL 16.6–17.2 mm). Female genitalia (Fig. 22) – 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.

Dunama jessiebarronaehas been collected on the east slope of Cordillera Volcanica de Guanacaste, Cordillera Volcanica Central, Cordillera de Talamanca, llanuras de Sarapiqui, and the lowlands of the Caribbean, from 50 to 1115 m elevation (Fig. 85).