Synopsis of the Castniidae (Lepidoptera) of Costa Rica
Author
García-Díaz, José De Jesús
Posgrado en Ciencias, Instituto de Ecología A. C., Red de Biodiversidad y Sistemática, Carretera antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, 91073 Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico; Sociedad Mexicana de Lepidopterología A. C.
Author
Espinoza-Sanabria, Bernardo A.
BioAlfa, Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund Costa Rica, 749 - 1000, San José, Costa Rica
Author
Worthy, Robert
10 The Hill, Church Hill, Caterham, Surrey CR 3 6 SD, U. K.
Author
González, Jorge M.
Austin Achieve Public Schools, Austin, Texas, (Research Associate, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity), USA
Author
Janzen, Daniel H.
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Author
Hallwachs, Winnie
Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-07-16
5481
2
151
202
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5481.2.1
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5481.2.1
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IV.
Divana
Miller, 1982
The genus was established by J.Y. Miller, and it is distributed from
Mexico
to
Ecuador
(
Miller 1986
;
Fletcher & Nye 1982
;
Worthy
et al.
2022
). The name replaces
Cyanostola
Houlbert, 1918
, a junior homonym of
Cyanostola
Saussure, 1892
(
Hymenoptera
).
Miller (1986
,
1995
) included two species (
D. diva
and
D. tricolor
) with some subspecies, but
Lamas (1995)
treated it as a monotypic genus with four subspecies.
Moraes & Duarte (2014)
synonymized
Divana
under
Telchin
.
Worthy
et al.
(2022)
reinstated the genus, considering it monotypic, with only three subspecies:
D. d.
diva
(Butler, 1870)
;
D. d.
hoppi
(Hering, 1923)
and
D. d.
tricolor
(C. Felder & R. Felder, 1874)
. The male retinacular configuration in
Divana
is unique in
Castniidae
, it does not differ in males and females, and it is found in the subdorsal region of the forewing ventrally (
Miller 1986
;
Worthy
et al.
2022
).
Divana diva
is a medium-large species with striking coloration, but the male wing pattern is clearly defined in each of its subspecies (
Miller 1986
;
Worthy
et al.
2022
).