Pierphulia rosea (Ureta 1956)

Pierphulia rosea maria

Phulia nysias.—Ureta, 1947:50–52 [a misidentification, in part].

Piercolias nysiella.—Herrera, 1954b:52 [a misidentification, in part].—Herrera and Etcheverry, 1956:284 [a misidentification, in part].

Piercolias nysias rosea.—Ureta, 1956:164 [a misidentification, in part]; 1963:99 [a misidentification, in part].

Piercolias (Pierphulia) nysias rosea.—Pefia, 1963:215 [a misidentification, in part].

MALE (Figures 99, 116, photographs of the holotype; 100, 117, photographs of a paratype from Taipicahua, Chile).—Wings above white, fuscous markings most similar to those of P. nysias nysiella. Hind wing and apex of forewing gray with a faint suffusion of pink and a series of distinct fuscous spots in the middle of the hind wing and with one such spot in the humeral area of this wing.

Length of forewing, 8–12.5 mm (average 11 mm).

FEMALE (Figures 101, 118, photographs of the allotype).—Similar to the male, fuscous markings on forewing larger, with ground color on uppersurfaces yellowish white or white (white in the allotype), with ground color gray on undersurface of hind wing, apex of forewing suffused with pink, and with markings on these surfaces as in the male.

Length of forewing, 9–12 mm (average 10.8 mm.)

TYPE DATA.—This subspecies is described from the holotype male, allotype female, and five male and two female paratypes from Parinacota, Province of Tarapacá, Chile, 4500 meters, 27 February 1948; two male and two female paratypes, same data except 28 and 29 February, G. Kuschel; three male and two female paratypes, same data except 8 December 1946; two male and one female paratypes from Taipicagua, Province of Tarapacá, 4000 meters, 6 December 1946, G. Kuschel; one male and three female paratypes, Taipicagua, Province of Tarapacá, 3500 meters, 16 November 1966, J. Herrera; one male paratype, Chungará, Province of Tarapacá, 17 November 1966, Maria Etcheverry and from one male and two female paratypes, Cota-Cotani, Province of Tarapacá, 4500 meters, 28 February 1948.

Holotype, allotype, three male and three female paratypes in the National Museum of Natural History, Santiago, Chile. Other paratypes distributed to the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D. C, the British Museum (Natural History), London, the Natural History Collection of Bavaria, Munich, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, Center for Entomological Studies, University of Chile and the collection of José Herrera, Santiago, Chile.

One male and one female from Sumbay, Department of Arequipa, Peru, (3500 meters, 8 June 1971) are excluded from the paratype series because they are from such a great distance from the type-locality.

As mentioned before, five male and two female paratypes of P. rosea rosea from the Province of Tarapacá, Chile are not that subspecies and belong to the present subspecies.

ETYMOLOGY.—The name maria is a feminine noun in the nominative singular in apposition with the generic name and is based upon the given name of María Etcheverry, who has contributed much to our knowledge of the Andean fauna.

DISTRIBUTION (see Map 4).—This subspecies is known only from the Cordillera Occidental of the Andes, Department of Arica, Province of Tarapacá, Chile and from Sumbay, Department of Arequipa, Peru.

Pierphulia rosea annamariea

Piercolias nysiella.—Forster, 1955:138 [a misidentifkation, in part].

Phulia nysiella.—Hughes, 1958:8 [a misidentification].

MALE (Figures 97, 114, photographs of the holotype).—This subspecies has the undersurface of the apex of the forewing and of the entire hind wing a pink color with the usual dark markings, which are very small and less distinct than they are in P. rosea maria.

Length of forewing, 11–15 mm (average 13 mm).

FEMALE (Figures 98, 115, photographs of the allotype).—Ground color of wings above white (as in the paratype) or pale yellow (as in the allotype) with fuscous markings as figured. Wings below as in the male with fuscous spots even more faint and disc of forewing sometimes yellowish white (as in the allotype).

Length of forewing, 11–12.5 mm (average 12 mm).

TYPE DATA.—Described from the holotype male, allotype female, and from five male and two female paratypes, all from Sicasica, Province of Sicasica, Department of La Paz, Bolivia, elevation not known, 1 October 1899, collected by A. G. Weeks, Jr. Holotype, allotype, and four male and one female paratypes in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. One male and one female paratype in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D. C. Three male specimens from three widely separate localities in Peru are not included in the type series because of their great distance from the type-locality.

ETYMOLOGY.—The name annamariea is a feminine noun in the nominative singular in apposition with the generic name and is based upon the given name of the mother of the senior author.

NATURAL HISTORY.—The adults occur near small marshes and damp areas.

DISTRIBUTION (see Map 4).—This subspecies is known at present from four widely separated localities. In addition to being found at Sicasica, Bolivia, we have examined a number of males from Peru (one each from Puno, Department of Puno, 4875 meters, from Cusco, Department of Cusco, 4000 meters, and from Campamento Turpi, January, 4380 meters, Department of Junín).

Pierphulia rosea (Ureta)

For references see under the subspecies.

MALE (Figures 97, 114, photographs of holotype of P. rosea annamariea; 99, 116, photographs of holotype of P. rosea maria; 100, 117, photographs of paratype of P. rosea maria from Taipicahua, Chile; 103, 122, photographs of topotype of P. rosea rosea).—Wings white above, forewing with vein closing end of cell black with marginal black spots at end of veins, and a subapical series of black spots extending from costal margin into interspace M2. The uppersurfaces are thus quite similar to P. nysias. Undersurfaces with a distinct pink cast over the hind wing and apex of the forewing, thus differing from P. nysias.

Length of forewing, 8–16 mm (average 12.6 mm).

FEMALE (Figures 98, 115, photographs of allotype of P. rosea annamariea; 101, 118, photographs of allotype of P. rosea maria; 102, 119, photographs of P. rosea rosea from Ojo del Putana, Antofagasta, Chile; 104, 123, photographs of topotype of P. rosea rosea).—Differing from the male in the same way that the female of P. nysias differs from the male of that species in having the dark markings on both surfaces larger and more extensive. As in the male the female differs from P. nysias in the pink cast on the hind wing and in apex of forewing.

Length of forewing, 9–15 mm (average 12 mm).

VENATION (Figure 176).—With the stalk of vein M1 + M2+R3+ R4+5 about the same length as in P. nysias and longer than in P. isabela.

CLAW, PARONYCHIUM, AND PULVILLUS.—Not illustrated, quite similar to those structures in P. nysias.

MALE GENITALIA (Figure 140, drawn from preparation WDF 6620, a specimen of P. rosea rosea).—Differing from these structures in P. nysias (Figure 139) in the shape of the subscaphium, which while divided has each element distinctly blunted posteriorly. It differs also from that species in having vinculum attached to saccus only about up to the middle of that structure. The subspecies show no differentiating characters in the male genitalia.

FEMALE GENITALIA (Figure 158, drawn from preparation WDF 6676, a specimen of P. rosea rosea).—With inner genital plate having posterior process reduced to a small triangularly shaped lobe and having anterior process with a number of setae along its ventral margin.

ETYMOLOGY.—The name rosea is an adjective in the nominative singular with a feminine ending and agreeing in gender with the generic name. It has the following gender endings: “us,” masculine; “a,” feminine; “um,” neuter. The name is derived from the Latin word rosa meaning “rose” and refers to the ground color of the undersurfaces of the secondaries and apex of the primaries.

DISTRIBUTION (see Map 4).—This species including its subspecies ranges at widely separated localities in the Cordillera of northern Chile (Provinces of Antofagasta and Tarapacá), in Bolivia (Sicasica, Province of Sicasica, Department of La Paz), and in the Cordillera of Peru north into the Department of Junán.