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Issue: Vol. 4109 No. 3: 9 May 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-05-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4109.3.7
Page range: 372–380
Abstract views: 143
PDF downloaded: 87

The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico, USA 10. A remarkable new white species of Chionodes Hübner (Gelechiidae)

Adjunct Curator of Lepidoptera Michigan State University; Research Collaborator U.S.N.M.; Research Associate Museum of Southwestern Biology the University of New Mexico. P.O. Box 45, Alamogordo, NM 88311-0045 USA.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6, Canada.
Endemism evolution U.S. National Park Service U.S. Army White Sands Missile Range Tularosa Basin biological diversity white gypsum dunes DNA barcodes Lepidoptera

Abstract

The U.S. National Park Service initiated a 10-year study, in late 2006, of the Lepidoptera at White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico. Chionodes bustosorum sp. n., described here, was discovered in 2010, during the third year of the study. The male imago and male genitalia are illustrated, and its DNA barcode is compared to that of seven other species of Chionodes from western North America.

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