Revalidation of Vareuptychia Forster, 1964, description of Vanima gen. nov., and notes on Euptychia cleophes Godman & Salvin, 1889 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)

Thamara Zacca, Mirna M. Casagrande, Olaf H.H. Mielke, Blanca Huertas, Marianne Espeland, André V.L. Freitas, Keith R. Willmott, Shinichi Nakahara, Gerardo Lamas

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Abstract

Vareuptychia Forster, 1964 stat. rest. is revalidated and comprises two species, V. similis (Butler, 1867) comb. rest. and V. themis (Butler, 1867) comb. nov. Vanima Zacca, Casagrande & Mielke gen. nov. is described to contain Euptychia labe Butler, 1870 (the type species), E. palladia Butler, 1867 and E. lesbia Staudinger, [1886]. The taxonomy of these two genera was initially revised based on morphological and distributional data, and subsequently tested and supported with a Maximum Likelihood analysis using four genes (COI, GAPDH, RpS5 and EF1-a). Lectotypes are designated for Euptychia similis Butler, 1867, E. themis Butler, 1867, E. undina Butler, 1870 and E. lesbia Staudinger, [1886]. No DNA sequences were obtained for Euptychia cleophes Godman & Salvin, 1889 but its transfer to Megisto Hübner, [1819] is supported by morphological evidence. For all taxa treated in this study, a taxonomic catalog, diagnosis, (re)description and illustrations of adults, venation and genitalia are provided, as well as comments on intraspecific variation, sexual dichromatism, ecology and distribution maps.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-34
Number of pages34
JournalZootaxa
Volume4858
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 29 Sep 2020
Externally publishedYes

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Keywords

  • Amazon rainforest
  • Central America
  • Cissia
  • Dry forests
  • Euptychiina
  • Integrative taxonomy
  • Megisto
  • Phylogeny

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