Three new species of Hagnagora Druce, 1885 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Ecuador and Costa Rica and a concise revision of the genus
Author
Brehm, Gunnar
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6090
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.537.6090
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Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Geometridae
Hagnagora acothysta (Schaus, 1901)
stat. rev.
Fig. 28
Type locality.
[Brazil], Parana, Castro.
Remarks.
Together with
jamaicensis
, Schaus (1901) originally placed this species in the genus
Heterusia
. It was then ranked down as a subspecies of
mortipax
by Parsons et
al
. (1999). The major characteristic of
acothysta
is the reduction of the white transversal band (found both in
mortipax
and
jamaicensis
) to a smaller blotch that reaches about half the area found in
mortipax
. As in
jamaicensis
, further evidence from barcoding is desirable for the consolidation of the species status.
Distribution.
Brazil.
Diagnosis.
Unlike
mortipax
and
jamaicensis
, this species shows no white transversal band on the forewing, but rather a reduced blotch that reaches only about 50% of the size observed in
mortipax
.