Two new species of Clito from South America and a revision of the Clito littera group (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae)
Author
Grishin, Nick V.
text
Zootaxa
2014
3861
3
231
248
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3861.3.2
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C. trinidadensis
Cock, 1998
(
Figs. 17–18
,
26
e–f, 27 part, 28 part)
The most recently described species,
C. trinidadensis
from
Trinidad
(
Figs. 17–18
,
26
e–f, 27 part), is more similar in genitalia to
C. nebulosa
, but differs from it in a narrower valva, slightly more prominent distal bulge on the cucullus and darker wing patterns with differently shaped spots. It is a darker species, with largely brown hindwing. Basal edge of forewing discal cell pale spot in
C. trinidadensis
is straight or rounded, angled to the costa (
Figs. 17–18
,
27
part).
Addition of the last two species increases the species count in the
C. littera
group to five. In addition to this work, primary
types
and other specimens of all these species are illustrated in
Warren
et al.
(2014)
. Further inspection of
Clito
specimens from the
C. littera
group in USNM collection revealed material from
Ecuador
and
Venezuela
that could not be attributed to any of these species due to differences in genitalia. One of these new species appears to be closer to
C. jonkersi
, and the other is more similar to
C. littera
. These two species are named below.