PROC. ENTOMOL. SOC. WASH. 87(4), 1985. pp. 777-782 TWO NEW SPECIES OF HEXORTHODES (LEPIDOPTERA: NOCTUIDAE) FROM TEXAS AND ARIZONA Andre Blanchard and Edward C. Knudson (AB) 3023 Underwood, Houston, Texas 77025; (ECK) 808 Woodstock, Bellaire, Texas 77401. Abstract. —Two new noctuid moths, Hexorthodes emendata and Hexorthodes citeria are described from material from Texas and Arizona. Imagines and male and female genitalia are figured. The closely related species, H. accurata (Henry Edwards), is also figured. Two new species of Hexorthodes McDunnough are described from material collected in Texas by both authors. The type series of one, Hexorthodes citeria, also includes several Arizona specimens collected by J. G. Franclemont. The larva oi citeria has been described and illustrated by Godfrey (1972, pp. 167, 168, and p. 265, fig. 547) from ova obtained from a female collected by Franclemont. Although Franclemont had recognized this species as new, he has graciously permitted the authors to describe it here with emendata. Both new species are closely related to accurata (Henry Edwards), which was described from Arizona. According to Franclemont (pers. com.), there is a third undescribed species in the accurata group, which occurs in Mexico and Central America. Hexorthodes emendata Blanchard & Knudson, New Species Figs. 1-6 Head. — Front smooth, grayish white (clay color). Vertex tufted, pale reddish brown. Labial palpi reddish brown, oblique, total length equal to one eye diameter. Antennae clay color, bipectinate in male, minutely bipectinate in female. Thorax. — Anterior third pale reddish brown, with a flat fan shaped anterior tuft. Posterior % pale charcoal gray, patagia margined with white. Abdomen buff" colored, with conspicuous, copper colored dorsal tuft on 1st segment. Forewing. — Ground color bright reddish brown (copper color), veins outlined narrowly with blackish gray. Basal half line white, angled outward from costal margin. Antemedial line obscure, apparent only at costa and near dorsal margin, angled inwardly over cell to meet basal half line. The area within the antemedial line much suffused with grayish white and blackish scales, with extreme base mainly whitish. Orbicular pale clay color, an elongate oval, extending from near costa to lower inner margin of reniform, to which it is usually narrowly joined. Reniform charcoal gray, margined with a ring of pale clay color. Postmedian line well defined, whitish, smooth and slightly outwardly convex from costal margin
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