Argyrogrammana Strand (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae) from Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, Acre, Brazil, with the description of four new species
Author
Dolibaina, Diego Rodrigo
Author
Dias, Fernando Maia Silva
Author
Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik
Author
Casagrande, Mirna Martins
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Zootaxa
2015
4028
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4028.2.4
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Argyrogrammana physis phyton
(
Stichel, 1911
)
(
Figs 11–12
,
51
)
Two males of this subspecies were collected in 2013 and one in 2014, all in a small natural clearing on the top of the hill, around two meters from the ground. The species flew short distances and rests below small leaves, around 9:00h. At the same site, two males of
A. bonita
were collected flying in the middle of the afternoon in 2013.
This subspecies is similar to
A. halli
sp. nov.
and
A. gallardi
sp. nov.
, however, it is distinguished from the former by the narrower wings and large orange area in forewing upperside, whereas from the latter by its larger size, absence of small black spots on the orange ground from hind wing upperside, and male genitalia with a short valvae, without a membranous median area (
Fig. 51
) (see the diagnosis of
A. halli
sp. nov.
and
A. gallardi
sp. nov.
). Furthermore,
A. physis phyton
flies in a different hour of the day. The specific validity of
A. physis phyton
has some support by the available evidence: the male genitalia, illustrated for a Ecuadorian specimen by
Hall & Willmott (1995, fig. 19)
, is very similar to the examined by us (
Fig. 51
), and both are distinct from the illustration provided by
Brévignon & Gallard (1995, fig. 8)
for a specimen of
A. physis physis
from
French Guiana
, especially by the short and triangular valva and the long anterior projection of saccus in
A. physis physis
. Additionally, the male of
A. physis phyton
has larger orange areas in the upperside of the wings, a longer subapical blue patch in forewing upperside and a developed submarginal orange area in forewing underside when compared with
A. physis physis
(
Brévignon & Gallard 1995
, fig. 19,
Hall & Willmott 1995
figs 3a, b). However, the presence of two undescribed subspecies of
A. physis
mentioned by
Hall & Willmott (1995)
prevents us from taking any taxonomic action until those specimens are examined.
In a study conducted at Parque Estadual do Chandless, Acre,
Brazil
(
Mielke
et al.
2010
) this taxon was misidentified as
Calospila rhesa
(Hewitson, 1858)
.