Illustrated catalogue of Neotropical Ctenuchina, Euchromiina and Pericopina types (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) described by Hans Zerny, with discussion on their taxonomic status
Author
Pinheiro, L. R.
Author
Gaal-Haszler, S.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3925
4
505
535
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3925.4.2
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crassum
Zerny, 1912
(
Figs. 7
and
56
)
Diptilum crassum
Zerny, 1912b
: 123
.
Holotype
male by monotypy:
COLOMBIA
, Bogotá; with three handwritten labels “Steinheil, Bogota, coll 880 II”, “gen n.
Diptilon
sp.”, and “
Diptilum crassum Zerny
type
♂”.
Current combination.
Diptilon crassum
Zerny, 1912
.
Condition of the
type
.
Right antenna, hindlegs and small part of the left forewing missing. Specimen poorly mounted, with many loose scales littering the wings.
Remarks.
Diptilon
Prittwitz, 1870
is probably non-monophyletic, judging from the morphological variety found among the 16 valid species currently placed in it. There appear to exist at least two groups of species that may form unrelated monophyletic entities. One is evidently linked to
D. telamonophorum
Prittwitz, 1870
(
type
species of the genus), and
D. crassum
may be related to the other group, which comprises
D. chrysocraspis
Hampson, 1898
,
D. sylpha
Dognin, 1902
and
D. hoffmannsi
Rothschild, 1911
. However, the hindwings in these three species are reduced, which is probably the reason why they were assigned to
Diptilon
. The same does not occur in
D. crassum
, which indicates that its taxonomic position might be far from settled.