Zoologia (Curitiba) (Dec 2013)

A new genus, Atlanteuptychia gen. nov., for Euptychia ernestina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)

  • André V. L. Freitas,
  • Eduardo P. Barbosa,
  • Jessie P. Santos,
  • Olaf H. H. Mielke

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-46702013005000005
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 30, no. 6
pp. 661 – 668

Abstract

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Atlanteuptychia Freitas, Barbosa & Mielke, gen. nov. is proposed for Euptychia ernestina Weymer, 1911 and illustrated. This taxon lacks the posterior projection of the tegumen, a synapomorphy of Euptychia Hübner, 1818, and does not share morphological synapomorphies with Cyllopsis R. Felder, 1869 and Paramacera Butler, 1868, two Central American genera apparently closely related to Euptychia ernestina, based on molecular data. This evidence supports the proposition of a new genus endemic to the Atlantic Forest, A. ernestina stat. nov.

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