Galapagos Species Database

MALE (n=31) (figs 2, 11, 12). Head brown to dark brown on occiput, with three thin longitudinal white lines reaching posterior margin of head: one on each side from antenna along upper side of eye and one medially from about anterior margin of eye; with few, if any, white scales before antenna; larger scales of vertex and frons greyish brown or yellowish brown, shining. Haustellum andmaxillary palpus white to pale beige. Labial palpus with six thin longitudinal stripes: three white and three brown on segment II, and two of each color on segment III. Antenna from apex with two dark-brown flagellomeres, two white, five dark brown, one white, one dark brown, two with white second row and dark-brown first row, two to five mostly dark brown but with some white scales, three or four with white first row and dark-brown second row, about 15 mostly dark greyish brown with one or two white scales on first row, rest dark brown with one white stripe dorsally and one ventrally; scape dark brown with a white stripe dorsally and two more ventral beige stripes. Thorax dark brown with paler orange-brown scales apically, with three white longitudinal lines: one medially and two on medial side of each tegula. Foreleg coxa greyish brown laterally, beige medially; femur dark brown laterally with a white stripe apically, beige medially; tibia dark brown with a white stripe laterally, beige medially; tarsomeres dark brown to greyish brown dorsally with white on tarsomeres I-II, base of III, and V, mostly beige ventrally. Midleg coxa beige; femur medially beige, laterally beige at base, greyish brown apically; tibia laterally dark brown with white diagonal stripes at base (reaching middle dorsally), middle, and apex; tarsomeres mostly dark greyish brown dorsally, with white at apex of tarsomeres I-III and V, beige to greyish brown ventrally (Landry, 2001).

Biology. The host plant is unknown. Moths were taken only at higher elevations, in agriculture, scalesia, and pampa zones. They were taken at light or swept from the vegetation from January to May and in October.