TY - JOUR
T1 - 'Species' from two different butterfly genera combined into one: Description of a new genus of Euptychiina (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) with unusually variable wing pattern
AU - Freitas, André Victor Lucci
AU - Barbosa, Eduardo Proença
AU - Willmott, Keith Richard
AU - Wahlberg, Niklas
AU - Lamas, Gerardo
PY - 2016/4/1
Y1 - 2016/4/1
N2 - © 2016 Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia. Sepona Freitas and Barbosa, gen. nov. is proposed for the Neotropical satyrine butterfly species Euptychia punctata Weymer, 1911 and its junior subjective synonyms Euptychia griseola Weymer, 1911 and Taygetis indecisa Ribeiro, 1931. The new genus has a distinctive wing pattern and shape of the valvae in the male genitalia, the latter being a unique autapomorphy within the subtribe Euptychiina. Based on molecular data, this genus is not sister to any other single euptychiine genus, instead appearing as the sister to all remaining genera in the Taygetis clade. The present paper illustrates the complexity of the taxonomy of Euptychiina, and the importance of using different sources of evidence in taxonomic studies.
AB - © 2016 Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia. Sepona Freitas and Barbosa, gen. nov. is proposed for the Neotropical satyrine butterfly species Euptychia punctata Weymer, 1911 and its junior subjective synonyms Euptychia griseola Weymer, 1911 and Taygetis indecisa Ribeiro, 1931. The new genus has a distinctive wing pattern and shape of the valvae in the male genitalia, the latter being a unique autapomorphy within the subtribe Euptychiina. Based on molecular data, this genus is not sister to any other single euptychiine genus, instead appearing as the sister to all remaining genera in the Taygetis clade. The present paper illustrates the complexity of the taxonomy of Euptychiina, and the importance of using different sources of evidence in taxonomic studies.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.rbe.2016.01.004
DO - 10.1016/j.rbe.2016.01.004
M3 - Article
SN - 0085-5626
SP - 157
EP - 165
JO - Revista Brasileira de Entomologia
JF - Revista Brasileira de Entomologia
ER -