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 flisa
(Herrich-Schäffer, [1858]) (TL:
Mexico
)
(fig. 3: a-i; fig. 12)
Catasticta flisa
is the most common and widespread species of the genus, occurring in a wide variety of habitats and distributed over more than 50% of the known range of the entire genus. Two subspecies were previously known for the country:
Catasticta flisa briseis
Eitschberger & Racheli, 1998
(TL:
Venezuela
, Aragua, Maracay), distributed from
1000 to 2200
meters in the Cordillera de la Costa, from Yaracuy to Miranda, and
Catasticta flisa dilutior
Avinoff, 1926
(TL:
Colombia
, Chaochi [= Choachi]) (=
C. hermione
Reissinger, 1972
), which is quite common from Trujillo south-westwards to Táchira.
The species was recently collected for the first time in the Serranía del Turimiquire (Sucre and Anzoátegui), where it is quite scarce. Although only a few specimens were available, we describe a new subspecies to highlight their peculiar pattern and isolated distribution.