Fifty years without a name: a new species of Splendeuptychia Forster (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)

Author(s)

Rosa, Augusto H. B. ^{[1, 2]} ; Huertas, Blanca ^[3] ; Willmott, Keith R. ^[4] ; Barbosa, Eduardo P. ^{[1, 2]} ; Machado, Patricia A. ^{[1, 2]} ; Mielke, Olaf H. H. ^[5] ; Canaan, Carlos H. P. ^[6] ; Freitas, Andre V. L. ^{[1, 2]}

Affiliation

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

^[2] Univ Estadual Campinas, Inst Biol, Museu Diversidade Biol, Campinas, SP - Brazil

^[3] Nat Hist Museum, Dept Life Sci, London - England

^[4] Univ Florida, Florida Museum Nat Hist, McGuire Ctr Lepidoptera & Biodivers, Gainesville, FL 32611 - USA

^[5] Univ Fed Paranci, Dept Zool, Lab Estudos Lepidoptera Neotrop, Curitiba, Parana - Brazil

^[6] Rua Vinicius de Moraes 1330, Divinopolis, MG - Brazil

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Zootaxa; v. 5061, n. 1, p. 95-114, NOV 3 2021.
• Web of Science Citations: 0

Abstract

A new satyrine butterfly species, Splendeuptychia tupinamba Freitas, Huertas \& Rosa, sp. nov. (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae), is described. This species is found throughout a large geographical range in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, predominantly in the Cerrado domain, with some records in neighboring Amazonia and Atlantic Forest. Morphology and molecular data indicate that this species is part of a clade that includes Splendeuptychia ashna (the type species of the genus Splendeuptychia), and several species placed in the recently described genus Nubila Viloria, Andrade \& Henao, 2019. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 13/50297-0 - Dimensions US-BIOTA São Paulo: a multidisciplinary framework for biodiversity prediction in the Brazilian Atlantic forest hotspot
• Grantee: Cristina Yumi Miyaki
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Thematic Grants
• FAPESP's process: 16/15873-8 - Systematics and patterns of biogeographical distribution of butterflies' genera from Euptychiina subtribe (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)
• Grantee: Eduardo de Proença Barbosa
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• FAPESP's process: 18/21432-0 - Unravelling cryptic species complexes and repatriating the genomes of old Brazilian specimens of satyrine butterflies (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae, Euptychiina)
• Grantee: Eduardo de Proença Barbosa
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• FAPESP's process: 12/03750-8 - Phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic distribution patterns of the clades Yphthimoides Forster, 1964 and Pharneuptychia Forster, 1964 (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)
• Grantee: Eduardo de Proença Barbosa
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• FAPESP's process: 11/50225-3 - Natural history, phylogeny and conservation of Neotropical Lepidoptera
• Grantee: André Victor Lucci Freitas
• Support Opportunities: BIOTA-FAPESP Program - Regular Research Grants