Calonotos flemingi Cock & Laguerre 2022, new species

Calonotos flemingi new species urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 8C7147EF-6424-467E-994D-C2900F7A99BE Figs. 7–11. Type material. Holotype ♁: TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, Trinidad. Curepe, MVL, 15.ix.1979 (M.J.W. Cock) / MJWC, dissection 1123 (Figs. 10, 11). The holotype will be deposited in NHMUK under Acquisition Number BMNH(E) 2022-156 as specimen number NHMUK010293431. Paratypes: TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, Trinidad. 1♁, St. Ann’s [MGCLB, ex coll Kaye, as C. chalcipleura]. 1♁ Curepe, MVL, 15–22.iv.1982 (M.J.W. Cock) [MJWC] (Fig. 7). 1♁ <15 mi from Port of Spain, <1,000 ft., xii.1913 – iv.1914 (F.W. Jackson) [OUMNH]. 1♀ Fons Amandes, 200 ft., 19.iii.1922 (F.W. Jackson) [OUMNH] (Fig. 9). 1♀ [No other locality], iv–v.1902 (E. Bourke) [OUMNH] (Fig. 8). 1♁ [No other locality], ii.1930 (A. Hall) [NHMUK as C. triplaga Hampson]. Other material examined: Calonotos flemingi: TRINIDAD & TOBAGO, Trinidad.?♁ Preysal, 10.41 –61.38, 12.vi.2021 (A. Deacon photo) [iNaturalist observation 82777772]. Calonotos sp. : FRENCH GUIANA, Nourages, Inselberg Camp Heliport—Drop Zone, 4.09°N — 52.68°W, 160m asl, M.A.S. Smith & R. Rougerie, 1/29/2011; Genitalia ML2145; Sample ID NS-RR0286, BOLD Proc ID LNOUE266-11 [ML]. Calonotos metallicus: original series of syntypes from Bugaba, Panama examined in NHMUK. Diagnosis. Hampson (1898) divided Calonotos into sections. He characterised his section I: ‘Both wings with the outer margin slightly excised at middle and broadened at tornus; the submedian interspace clothed with rough scales below; forewing with ridge of large scales running through submedian interspace’. This was based on males only as Hampson (1898) included only C. metallicus Druce, 1886 (in Druce 1881 –1900) (TL Panama) in his section I, and had only seen males of that species. Male C. flemingi new species also shows these characters, which serve to separate these two species from other similar known Calonotos spp. Calonotos flemingi new species lacks the white spots on the tegulae, shoulders, and sides of thorax, the cupreous spots ...