Revision of the South American genus Gaujonia Dognin (Noctuidae, Pantheinae) with descriptions of five new genera and twenty-one new species
Author
Martinez, Jose I.
Florida Museum of Natural History, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA, & Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 326011, USA
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4368-2729
joemartinez@ufl.edu
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ZooKeys
2020
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.985.51622
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.985.51622
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Oculicattus
gen. nov.
Gender.
Masculine.
Type species.
Gaujonia renifera
Hampson, 1913. Catalogue of
Lepidoptera
Phalaenae in the British Museum 13: 385, 387, pl. 235, fig. 4.
Etymology.
Oculicattus
refers to the reniform spot, which is black and surrounded with yellow scales, giving it the appearance of a
cat's
eye.
Included species.
Oculicattus
is a new genus established for
Gaujonia renifera
(Hampson), which was misplaced in the genus
Gaujonia
. This genus also includes six new species,
Oculicattus boliviana
sp. nov.,
Oculicattus brehmi
sp. nov.,
Oculicattus inca
sp. nov.,
Oculicattus raizae
sp. nov.,
Oculicattus schmidti
sp. nov., and
Oculicattus uturunku
sp. nov., which are morphologically and genetically distinct from the genus
Gaujonia
.
Diagnosis.
Oculicattus
can be differentiated from
Gaujonia
externally by the presence of the large reniform spot in
Oculicattus
, as well as by other features (see
Gaujonia
diagnosis).
Description.
Sexually dimorphic in size, females larger than males; forewing and hindwing hyaline with sulfur-yellow and black scales covering veins and wing margins. Forewing with a small black or sulfur-yellow orbicular spot, sometimes barely perceptible; reniform spot elongated, outlined in black; elongated black central line surrounded by sulfur-yellow outline, except for
O. raizae
and
O. uturunku
, in which the spot is entirely black. Antenna filiform, brownish orange with a sulfur-yellow band on basal to three quarters of antenna; eyes with coppery interfacetal setae. Male genitalia slightly sclerotized; valva with saccular and cucullar regions separated, without clasper; uncus long and narrow ending in beak-like tip; vesica has spine patch; vesica wider than its base, which has two patches of spines with one patch of spines larger than other. Female genitalia medium sized; lightly sclerotized rectangular-shaped sterigma; appendix bursae elongate and rugose; corpus bursae for most species approximately half size of appendix bursae.
Immature stages.
Unknown.
Biology.
Unknown.