A new species of Aguna Williams (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae) from Panamá belonging to the “claxon group”

Ricardo Russo Siewert; Gabriela Lourenço Leviski; Olaf Hermann Hendrik Mielke; Mirna Martins Casagrande

Revista Brasileira de Entomologia (Oct 2015)

A new species of Aguna Williams (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae) from Panamá belonging to the “claxon group”

Ricardo Russo Siewert,
Gabriela Lourenço Leviski,
Olaf Hermann Hendrik Mielke,
Mirna Martins Casagrande

Affiliations

Ricardo Russo Siewert: Corresponding author.; Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Gabriela Lourenço Leviski: Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Olaf Hermann Hendrik Mielke: Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil
Mirna Martins Casagrande: Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 59, no. 4
pp. 320 – 322

Abstract

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A new species of Aguna Williams, 1927 from Panamá is described: Aguna prasinus Siewert, Leviski, Mielke & Casagrande, sp. nov. Illustrations of adults and male genitalia are provided. A dichotomous key for the male Aguna species for the “claxon group” is also provided. Keywords: Butterfly, Central America, Eudaminae, Skippers, Taxonomy

Published in Revista Brasileira de Entomologia

ISSN: 0085-5626 (Print); 1806-9665 (Online)
Publisher: Sociedade Brasileira de Entomologia
Country of publisher: Netherlands
LCC subjects: Science: Zoology
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