An illustrated annotated check-list of the species of Catasticta (s. l.) Butler (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) of Venezuela
Author
Bollino, Maurizio
Author
Costa, Mauro
text
Zootaxa
2007
1469
1
42
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.176651
c693fa7b-b09f-407d-80c3-c870485429ae
1175-5326
176651
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Catasticta philais
(C. &
R. Felder, 1865
) (TL:
Colombia
, Bogotá)
(fig. 6: a-b; fig. 17)
The nominotypical subspecies is widespread along the northern part of the Colombian Cordillera Oriental, but is never common.
Catasticta philais borgesi
Eitschberger & Racheli, 1998
(TL:
Venezuela
, Táchira) is the Venezuelan representative of the species, and is restricted to El Tamá, where it flies in sympatry with
C
.
philoscia
. These species can hardly be distinguished in the field, but the following differences, mostly ventral wing pattern differences (fig. 1), are consistent.
A) FW yellow interneural spot in cell R4/R5-M1 large in
philoscia
, a small dot in
philais
. B) HW whitish area at base of cells M1-M2 and CuA1-CuA2) large in
philoscia
, small in
philais
. C) HW yellow interneural spot in cell CuA1-CuA2 (and usually also other yellow interneural spots of
VHW) long in
philoscia
, a small dot in
philais
.
No females of ssp.
philais
or
borgesi
are known.