REVISION OF MOTHS OF CARPOSINIDAE 59 



Paratypes. — Arizona: Cochise Co.: Cave Creek Canyon, Chiri- 

 cahua Mts., 5,400 feet, 6 cT, 3 9, Aug. 4-23, 1966, coll. J. G. Francle- 

 mont (JGF). Silver Creek Wash, 7 mi. W. Portal, Chiricahua Mts., 

 4,880 feet, 1 cf , 1 9, Aug. 4-11, 1966, coll. J. G. Franclemont (JGF). 

 Southwestern Research Station, Chiricahua Mts., 5,400 feet, 1 cf, 

 Sept. 6, 1959, coll. J. R. Powers (UCB) ; 2 cT, Sept. 4, 1959, coll. D. 

 Linsdale (USNM) ; 1 &, July 31-Aug. 2, 1964, coll. D. R. Davis 

 (USNM). Gila Co.: 4 mi. ESE. of Pine, 5,400 feet, 3 c^, 1 9, Sept. 

 1-5, 1961, coll. R. W. Hodges (USNM). Described from a total of 

 15 males and 5 females. 



Host. — Unknown. 



Distribution (map 9). — This species is known only from the 

 montane sections of central and southeastern Arizona at elevations 

 exceeding 4,500 feet. Collections to date strongly suggest that its 

 range in Arizona does not extend north of the Mogollon Rim. 



Discussion. — The relatively uniform, dark fuscous scaling of 

 Bondia fuscata easily separates it from all other known forms of 

 Bondia. In addition, this species along with B. jidelis exhibits certain 

 featm-es that appear atypical for the genus, thus making it more 

 difficult to properly define the taxon. In both of these species, as 

 well as in an unnamed species discussed on page 65, the labial palpi 

 are not sexually dimorphic and vems 3 and 4 of the hindwings are 

 stalked for a considerable distance. In addition to -their very different 

 maculation, B. fuscata may be fiu"ther distinguished from B. Jidelis 

 by the dissimilar form of then* valvae and lamellae postvaginales. 



Tesuquea Klots 



Tesuquea Klots, 1936, American Mus. Novitates, no. 867, p. 4. — McDunnough, 

 1939, Mem. S. California Acad. Sci., vol. 2, no. 1, p. 61.— Diakonoff, 1954, 

 Verhandel. Konink. Nederl. Akad. Wetensch., Afd. Natuiir., vol. 49, no. 4, 

 p. 118. 



Type-species. — Tesuquea hawleyana Klots, 1936, original designa- 

 tion and monobasic. 



Adult. — Relatively small, slender bodied moths; wing expanse 

 11-16 mm. 



Head (figs. 54-58) : Antennae sexualh' dimorphic, scales restricted 

 mostly to dorsal and lateral smfaces in both sexes; female with minute 

 cilia visible only on ventral surface of apical third of shaft; ventral 

 surface strongly ciliate in male, length of cilia approximately 1-2 X 

 diameter of shaft. Labial palpi sexually dimorphic; relatively short 

 and ascending in male, with second segment smooth above and 

 somewhat roughened beneath; porrect and more elongate in female, 

 with second segment relatively smooth beneath, strongly roughened 

 toward apex above; and approximately 1.5 X that of male in length; 

 apical segment short, obtuse. 



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