Two new species of Clito from South America and a revision of the Clito littera group (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae)
Author
Grishin, Nick V.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3861
3
231
248
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3861.3.2
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C. nebulosa
(
Draudt, 1924
)
, reinstated status
(
Figs. 15–16
,
22
,
26
d, 27 part, 28 part)
Valvae of the
C. littera
lectotype
(
Figs. 26
a, g, 27) exhibit ampulla sharply rising dorsad to surpass the level of cucullus dorsal tip.
C. littera
cucullus bends dorsad without prominent distal expansion or bulge and narrows gradually towards its caudal end pointing dorsad and forming a small, stronger sclerotized, granular and serrated tip.
C. nebulosa
, currently known only from a single specimen, the
holotype
from
Bolivia
: Rio Songo (
750 m
), in SMF collection, differs in the ampulla-costa being mostly straight and lower than the tip of cucullus (
Fig. 26
d), but the cucullus is not distally expanded and is more similar to that of
C. littera
. In wing pattern,
C. nebulosa
is paler, hindwing marked with a defined discal pale area, very prominent on ventral side, veins ventrally are almost without dark scales in the discal band. U-shaped pale spots in forewing discal and Cu1-Cu2 cells are broken basad into 2 streaks each, basal edge of forewing discal cell streaks is perpendicular to the costa. These differences in genitalia and wing patterns suggest species status of this taxon, as proposed in the original description (
Draudt 1924
).