Plutella copaquillaensis Vargas 2024, sp. nov.

Plutella copaquillaensis Vargas sp. nov. Materials Type status: Holotype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IDEA-LEPI-2024-14; sex: male; preparations: Genitalia slide HAV- 1814; occurrenceID: C050BB01-35C7-5A54-8CEE-856B03AF7D00; Location: country: Chile; stateProvince: Parinacota; locality: Copaquilla; verbatimElevation: 3100 m; verbatimLatitude: 18°24'02"S; verbatimLongitude: 69°38'37"W; Identification: identifiedBy: Héctor A. Vargas; Event: samplingProtocol: Adult emerged June 2022, reared from larva collected on Neontobotrys lanata May 2022; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: IDEA (Colección Entomológica de la Univerdidad de Tarapacá); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IDEA-LEPI-2024-15; sex: male; preparations: Genitalia slide HAV- 1759; occurrenceID: 26D3FF6E-6D65-51DF-AD5E-93A7B7556864; Location: country: Chile; stateProvince: Parinacota; locality: Copaquilla; verbatimElevation: 3100 m; verbatimLatitude: 18°24'02"S; verbatimLongitude: 69°38'37"W; Identification: identifiedBy: Héctor A. Vargas; Event: samplingProtocol: Adult emerged June 2022, reared from larva collected on Neontobotrys lanata May 2022; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: IDEA (Colección Entomológica de la Univerdidad de Tarapacá); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IDEA-LEPI-2024-16; sex: male; preparations: Genitalia slide HAV- 1761; occurrenceID: 26D3FF6E-6D65-51DF-AD5E-93A7B7556864; Location: country: Chile; stateProvince: Parinacota; locality: Copaquilla; verbatimElevation: 3100 m; verbatimLatitude: 18°24'02"S; verbatimLongitude: 69°38'37"W; Identification: identifiedBy: Héctor A. Vargas; Event: samplingProtocol: Adult emerged June 2022, reared from larva collected on Neontobotrys lanata May 2022; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: IDEA (Colección Entomológica de la Univerdidad de Tarapacá); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IDEA-LEPI-2024-17; sex: male; preparations: Genitalia slide HAV- 1765; occurrenceID: 709C1C9B-FA97-50EB-8739-543CB9B6DE11; Location: country: Chile; stateProvince: Parinacota; locality: Copaquilla; verbatimElevation: 3100 m; verbatimLatitude: 18°24'02"S; verbatimLongitude: 69°38'37"W; Identification: identifiedBy: Héctor A. Vargas; Event: samplingProtocol: Adult emerged June 2022, reared from larva collected on Neontobotrys lanata May 2022; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: IDEA (Colección Entomológica de la Univerdidad de Tarapacá); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IDEA-LEPI-2024-18; sex: male; preparations: Genitalia slide HAV- 1767; occurrenceID: 76479FD3-49BB-5CF5-A9F6-98EA891F5FE6; Location: country: Chile; stateProvince: Parinacota; locality: Copaquilla; verbatimElevation: 3100 m; verbatimLatitude: 18°24'02"S; verbatimLongitude: 69°38'37"W; Identification: identifiedBy: Héctor A. Vargas; Event: samplingProtocol: Adult emerged June 2022, reared from larva collected on Neontobotrys lanata May 2022; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: IDEA (Colección Entomológica de la Univerdidad de Tarapacá); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IDEA-LEPI-2024-19; sex: male; preparations: Genitalia slide HAV- 1768; occurrenceID: 588A74E8-4860-549B-B8FD-DA742F1D3D67; Location: country: Chile; stateProvince: Parinacota; locality: Copaquilla; verbatimElevation: 3100 m; verbatimLatitude: 18°24'02"S; verbatimLongitude: 69°38'37"W; Identification: identifiedBy: Héctor A. Vargas; Event: samplingProtocol: Adult emerged June 2022, reared from larva collected on Neontobotrys lanata May 2022; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: IDEA (Colección Entomológica de la Univerdidad de Tarapacá); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IDEA-LEPI-2024-20; sex: female; preparations: Genitalia slide HAV- 1541; occurrenceID: 45B9A8C2-7707-54B6-8DDE-39FEAC988191; Location: country: Chile; stateProvince: Parinacota; locality: Copaquilla; verbatimElevation: 3100 m; verbatimLatitude: 18°24'02"S; verbatimLongitude: 69°38'37"W; Identification: identifiedBy: Héctor A. Vargas; Event: samplingProtocol: Adult emerged June 2022, reared from larva collected on Neontobotrys lanata May 2022; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: IDEA (Colección Entomológica de la Univerdidad de Tarapacá); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IDEA-LEPI-2024-21; sex: female; preparations: Genitalia slide HAV- 1760; occurrenceID: 513968D5-BFA6-5375-844A-935F7038A2D0; Location: country: Chile; stateProvince: Parinacota; locality: Copaquilla; verbatimElevation: 3100 m; verbatimLatitude: 18°24'02"S; verbatimLongitude: 69°38'37"W; Identification: identifiedBy: Héctor A. Vargas; Event: samplingProtocol: Adult emerged June 2022, reared from larva collected on Neontobotrys lanata May 2022; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: IDEA (Colección Entomológica de la Univerdidad de Tarapacá); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IDEA-LEPI-2024-22; sex: female; preparations: Genitalia slide HAV- 1764; occurrenceID: 02A03212-7AAC-50F3-9B3E-9C3ADF5CA687; Location: country: Chile; stateProvince: Parinacota; locality: Copaquilla; verbatimElevation: 3100 m; verbatimLatitude: 18°24'02"S; verbatimLongitude: 69°38'37"W; Identification: identifiedBy: Héctor A. Vargas; Event: samplingProtocol: Adult emerged June 2022, reared from larva collected on Neontobotrys lanata May 2022; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: IDEA (Colección Entomológica de la Univerdidad de Tarapacá); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IDEA-LEPI-2024-23; sex: female; preparations: Genitalia slide HAV- 1770; occurrenceID: 425DDB72-797B-59AC-AFD1-1B592C14622F; Location: country: Chile; stateProvince: Parinacota; locality: Copaquilla; verbatimElevation: 3100 m; verbatimLatitude: 18°24'02"S; verbatimLongitude: 69°38'37"W; Identification: identifiedBy: Héctor A. Vargas; Event: samplingProtocol: Adult emerged June 2022, reared from larva collected on Neontobotrys lanata May 2022; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: IDEA (Colección Entomológica de la Univerdidad de Tarapacá); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Type status: Paratype. Occurrence: catalogNumber: IDEA-LEPI-2024-24; sex: female; preparations: Genitalia slide HAV- 1815; occurrenceID: 3585D1A3-ADBE-5956-B668-63498E14B48F; Location: country: Chile; stateProvince: Parinacota; locality: Copaquilla; verbatimElevation: 3100 m; verbatimLatitude: 18°24'02"S; verbatimLongitude: 69°38'37"W; Identification: identifiedBy: Héctor A. Vargas; Event: samplingProtocol: Adult emerged June 2022, reared from larva collected on Neontobotrys lanata May 2022; Record Level: type: PhysicalObject; language: en; institutionCode: IDEA (Colección Entomológica de la Univerdidad de Tarapacá); basisOfRecord: PreservedSpecimen Description Male (Fig. 1). Forewing length 7.1–7.5 mm. Head. Vertex mostly pale yellow, creamy white behind antenna; frons creamy white; occiput creamy white behind vertex, yellowish-brown behind eye; ocellus present. Labial palpus porrect; first segment creamy white; second segment triangular in lateral view due to forward projected scales, outer surface yellowish-brown, inner surface creamy white; third segment upturned, mostly creamy white with scattered yellowish-brown scales. Antenna with scape and pedicel creamy white, flagellum creamy white dorsally and single transverse stripe of creamy white scales ventrally on each flagellomere. Thorax. Mostly creamy white dorsally, with scattered pale yellow scales; tegula yellowish-brown. Foreleg mostly brownish-grey with scattered creamy white scales; mid-leg mostly creamy white with scattered brownish-grey scales; hind leg creamy white. Forewing upper surface mostly yellowish-brown with scattered creamy white, pale yellow and blackish-brown scales on basal three quarters; dorsal band extended from base to about three quarters of forewing length, pale yellow, anterior margin with three scallops, the outer expanded by a patch of creamy white scales; a yellowish-brown band with poorly-defined anterior margin lines the dorsal band from base to just before the third scallop; apical area mostly pale yellow with scattered yellowish-brown and blackish-brown scales; lower surface brownish-grey; fringe with narrow creamy white scales with blackish-brown or yellowish-brown tip. Some specimens with a blackish-brown, instead of yellowish-brown, band lining the dorsal band. Hind wing upper and lower surfaces and fringe brownish-grey. Abdomen. Mostly brownish-grey with scattered creamy white scales. Segment VIII with well-developed pleural lobes and pair of coremata. Male genitalia (Fig. 2). Uncus absent. Tegumen a narrow, sclerotised transverse band; with pair of ventral pedunculi, each broadly fused to the respective arm of the vinculum; with pair of teguminal processes slightly longer than pedunculi, widely separated dorsally, ventrally fused near the middle. Anal cone mostly membranous, with slightly sclerotised ventral longitudinal patch slightly shorter than teguminal processes. Gnathos absent. Saccus continuous with vinculum, about three times the length of the ventral pedunculi of the tegumen; posterior two-thirds a triangular, concave plate, anterior third finger-like. Juxta triangular, about 0.25 x length of saccus. Valva semicircular, about 1.2 x length of saccus, maximum height about half length; ventral margin nearly straight, slightly convex near middle; apex and dorsal margin rounded; inner wall with sacculus reaching the conve