Symmerista minaei

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

Symmerista minaei is a moth in the Notodontidae family. It has been collected between 2,400 and 2,600 meters in highland cloud forests of the Talamanca Mountain Range in Costa Rica.

The length of the forewings 17.2–19.21 mm for males and 19.63–21.18 mm for females. The ground colour of the forewings of the males is beige and light brown, with a black reniform spot and light brown basal band. The postmedial band is light brown and there is a creamy-white square distal to the reniform spot. The hindwings are beige. The forewings of the females are dark brown with a beige antemedial band lined at both sides by sinuous dirty dark brown lines. There is a black reniform spot and an irregular thin white to beige line extending from the apex to the reniform spot. The hindwings are dirty beige.

Etymology

The species is named for the Ministerio del Ambiente y Energía (MINAE) of the government of Costa Rica in recognition of its 28 years of continuous and widespread support for the survival and conservation of the wild biodiversity of Costa Rica.^[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