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

Author(s)

Zacca, Thamara ^{[1, 2]} ; Casagrande, Mirna M. ^[3] ; Mielke, Olaf H. H. ^[3] ; Huertas, Blanca ^[4] ; Espeland, Marianne ^[5] ; Freitas, Andre V. L. ^{[1, 2]} ; Willmott, Keith R. ^[6] ; Nakahara, Shinichi ^[6] ; Lamas, Gerardo ^[7]

Affiliation

^[1] Univ Estadual Campinas, Dept Biol Anim, Campinas, SP - Brazil

^[2] Univ Estadual Campinas, Museu Biodiversidade, Inst Biol, Lab Ecol & Sistemat Borboletas, Campinas, SP - Brazil

^[3] Univ Fed Parana, Dept Zool, Lab Estudos Lepidoptera Neotrop, Curitiba, Parana - Brazil

^[4] Nat Hist Museum, Dept Life Sci, London - England

^[5] Res Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn - Germany

^[6] Univ Florida, Florida Museum Nat Hist, McGuire Ctr Lepidoptera & Biodivers, Gainesville, FL 32611 - USA

^[7] Univ Nacl Mayor San Marcos, Dept Entomol, Museo Hist Nat, Lima - Peru

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Zootaxa; v. 4858, n. 1, p. 1-34, SEP 29 2020.
• Web of Science Citations: 0

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). Lectoty pes 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 Hubner, {[}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. (AU)

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