Viuria Grishin, 2019 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae): taxonomy, description of two new species, and remarks on the morphology of secondary sexual organs of males
Author
Siewert, Ricardo Russo
ricardo.siewert@gmail.com
Author
Lemes, José Ricardo Assmann
Author
Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik
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Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
omhesp@ufpr.br
Author
Casagrande, Mirna Martins
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Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
mibras@ufpr.br
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2023
2023-11-27
908
183
203
https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/download/2347/10235
journal article
10.5852/ejt.2023.908.2347
2118-9773
AA17B828-F6A0-4CD3-B145-E23A73DED710
Genus
Viuria
Grishin, 2019
Diagnosis
Adults are characterized by the following characters: wings ground color brown, DFW without apical hyaline spots (differing from
Nisoniades
and
Viola
); DFW with costal, cellular, discal, and submarginal spots dark brown; DHW with discal and submarginal spots dark brown; DHW of males with long tufts of hair-like scales near the base of the costal fold, and another patch of modified creamy scales near the base of the swollen veins Rs and M 1; both males and females with a patch of modified greyish scales in the swollen vein Sc+R
1
; VW light brown; male and female genitalia asymmetrical; uncus bent downwards; tegumen with lateral asymmetric projections; sterigma with a spine-like process cover ventrally, ostium bursae opening ventrally at left side.