Immature stages, new host plant records and shelter structures of Troyus phyllides (Röber, 1925) and Thoon ponka Evans, 1955 in the Peruvian Amazon (Lepidoptera Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae: Hesperiini)
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Duerr, Nathan
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Corahua-Espinoza, Thalia
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Baine, Quinlyn
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Tejeira, Rafael
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Ccahuana, Rodrigo
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Espinoza, María Mercedes Del Castillo
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Perlett, Eric
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Cervantes-Martínez, Joselin Nidia
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Santillana, Alexandra Liza
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See, Joseph
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Soto-Quispe, Yulisa Sari
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Wood, Halle
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Arteaga, Zunilda Escalante
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Gallice, Geoffrey
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-10-31
5200
4
372
390
journal article
178561
10.11646/zootaxa.5200.4.6
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Lasiacis ligulata
Hitchcock & Chase
(
Poaceae
:
Panicoideae
: Paniceae) (
Figs. 3a–c
)
The host plant for
Troyus phyllides
(2021-FLP-IMM-0116, 0366, 0367; 2022-FLP-IMM-0101-B, 0128) was identified as a grass species,
Lasiacis ligulata
Hitchcock & Chase.
This plant species is a common component of the understory, especially along large forest trails in FLP. Based on 2021-FLP-IMM-0116, the particular individual where the egg was located was at the entrance of a forest trail. On the date the egg was collected, the plant height was
1.3 m
. The egg was found at a distance of
0.7 m
from the ground, situated on the abaxial surface, in the middle part of the leaf blade, and near the leaf margin.