Revision of the genus Callipia Guenée, 1858 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae), with the description of 15 new taxa
Author
Brehm, Gunnar
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2018
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journal article
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The
constantinaria
group
The six known members of the
constantinaria
group are easily recognised by their wing patterns: brown coloured with large deep yellow blotches on the forewing. Male valves are overall similar as in the
parrhasiata
group; the aedeagus is straight and slender without cornuti. The male genitalia within the group are rather similar and appear to be of little use for the diagnosis of species.
C. occulta
stat. rev.
and
C. hiltae
sp. nov.
form a cryptic species complex that can reliably only be distinguished by DNA barcoding. Species are distributed from
Colombia
to northern
Argentina
(
Fig. 2c
).