Symmerista luisdiegogomezi

Symmerista luisdiegogomezi is a moth in the family Notodontidae first described by Isidro A. Chacón in 2014. It has been collected between 2,450 and 2,600 meters in highland cloud forests dominated by Quercus trees in the foothills west of the Cordillera de Talamanca in southern Costa Rica.

Symmerista luisdiegogomezi
Male dorsal (left) and ventral views
Female dorsal (left) and ventral views
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Notodontidae
Genus:
Symmerista
Species:
S. luisdiegogomezi
Binomial name
Symmerista luisdiegogomezi
Chacón, 2014

The length of the forewings is 17.2–19.21 mm for males and 20.22–21.51 mm for females. The ground colour of the forewings of the males is dark brown, with a reniform black spot and a light brown basal band. The hindwings are dark brown. The forewings of the females are also dark brown with a beige antemedial band, lined on both sides by sinuous dark brown lines and with an irregular white thin bar from the apex to the black reniform spot. The hindwings are dirty beige with a light brown postmedial line and black discal spot.

Etymology

The species is named in honour of the late Professor Luis Diego Gómez Pignataro of San Jose.[1]

References
  1. Chacón, I.A.; Janzen, D.H.; Hallwachs, W. 2014: Four new species of Symmerista Hübner, 1816 (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) from Costa Rica. ZooKeys, 421: 39-63. doi:10.3897/zookeys.421.6342


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