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<mods:title>Revision of Neotropical Scythrididae moths and descriptions of 22 new species from Argentina, Chile, and Peru (Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea)</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Nupponen 1, Kari</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Sihvonen, Pasi</mods:namePart>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 3034" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figures 30 - 34. Scythrididae adults, genus Scythris 30 S. andensis Nupponen sp. nov., genus combination incertae sedis, male, holotype 31 S. mendozaensis Nupponen sp. nov., genus combination incertae sedis, female, holotype 32 S. dividua Meyrick, 1916, genus combination incertae sedis, male, lectotype 33 A S. medullata Meyrick, genus combination incertae sedis, 1916, male, lectotype 33 B S. medullata Meyrick, 1916, genus combination incertae sedis, male 34 S. notorrhoa Meyrick, 1921, genus combination incertae sedis, male, lectotype." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1087.64382.figures30-34" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/649320" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Figs 33</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 6162" captionStartId="F20" captionText="Figures 61 - 62. Male genitalia of Scythris 61 S. medullata Meyrick, 1916, genus combination incertae sedis, lectotype, slide JFGC No. 8055 62 S. notorrhoa Meyrick, 1921, genus combination incertae sedis, lectotype, slide JFGC No. 8065." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1087.64382.figures61-62" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/649334" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">, 61</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 73" captionStartId="F31" captionText="Figure 73. Female genitalia of Scythris medullata Meyrick, 1916, genus combination incertae sedis, slide 2 / 17 Dec. 2019 KN." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1087.64382.figure73" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/649345" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">, 73</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName authority="Nupponen 1 &amp; Sihvonen, 2022" authorityName="Nupponen 1 &amp; Sihvonen" authorityYear="2022" class="Insecta" family="Scythrididae" genus="Scythris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Scythris medullata" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="medullata" status="incertae sedis">Scythris medullata</taxonomicName>
Meyrick, 1916. Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 2 (part 1): 13.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2022-01-01" collectingDateMax="2022-12-31" collectingDateMin="2022-01-01" collectorName="Parish, No." country="Peru" elevation="152" location="Lima" specimenCount="♂" stateProvince="Lima" typeStatus="Lectotype">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">
<typeStatus>Lectotype</typeStatus>
</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
<collectingCountry name="Peru">Peru</collectingCountry>
<specimenCount></specimenCount>
;
<collectingRegion country="Peru" name="Lima">Lima</collectingRegion>
;
<elevation metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.524" unit="ft" value="500.0">
<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.524" unit="ft" value="500.0">500 feet</quantity>
a.s.l.
</elevation>
; 8-14.;
<collectorName>Parish</collectorName>
leg.; [genitalia slide] JFGC
<collectorName>No.</collectorName>
8055; NHMUK ID 010922362; NHMUK slide ID 010316667; coll. NHMUK.
</materialsCitation>
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2022-01-01" collectingDateMax="2022-12-31" collectingDateMin="2022-01-01" country="Colombia, Equador" location="Colombia, Equador" specimenCount="80" typeStatus="Paralectotypes">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">
<typeStatus>Paralectotypes</typeStatus>
</emphasis>
.
</emphasis>
<collectingCountry isEnumeration="true">Colombia, Equador</collectingCountry>
,
<collectingCountry name="Peru">Peru</collectingCountry>
<bibRefCitation author="Meyrick, E" journalOrPublisher="Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street" pageId="0" pageNumber="19" publicationUrl="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9808406" refId="B25" refString="Meyrick, E, 1916. Exotic Microlepidoptera vol. 2 (part 1). Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9808406" title="Exotic Microlepidoptera vol. 2 (part 1)." url="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9808406" year="1916">Meyrick (1916)</bibRefCitation>
described the species based on
<specimenCount type="generic">80 specimens</specimenCount>
, but only 13 remain the NHMUK/Meyrick collection, also reported by
<bibRefCitation author="Clarke, JFG" journalOrPublisher="Dissertation, The Ohio State University" pageId="0" pageNumber="19" publicationUrl="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42780382" refId="B8" refString="Clarke, JFG, 1965. Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick, Volume V: 1-581. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42780382" title="Catalogue of the Type Specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British Museum (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick, Volume V: 1 - 581. Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History), London." url="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42780382" year="1965">Clarke (1965)</bibRefCitation>
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.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Other material.</paragraph>
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<collectingCountry name="Peru">Peru</collectingCountry>
<specimenCount type="male">1 ♂</specimenCount>
,
<specimenCount type="female">3 ♀</specimenCount>
; prov.
<collectingRegion country="Peru" name="La Libertad">La Libertad</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Lequetepeque River</collectingMunicipality>
, near
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;
<geoCoordinate degrees="7" direction="south" minutes="16.9" orientation="latitude" precision="92" value="-7.2816668">7°16.9'S</geoCoordinate>
,
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;
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<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.0" unit="m" value="200.0">200 m</quantity>
a.s.l.
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;
<collectingDate value="2019-02-01">1 Feb. 2019</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>K. Nupponen</collectorName>
&amp;
<collectorName>R. Haverinen</collectorName>
leg.
</materialsCitation>
;
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2019-12-17" country="Peru" location="Nupponen" specimenCount="1">
[BOLD sample IDs] KN01079, KN01080, KN01081, KN01084; [genitalia slide] K.
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:2C1FB03D9EB65073B04E50C6E0BC1788:D18D9C40C738DE7A1BCB3550A64515AF" country="Peru" name="Nupponen">Nupponen</location>
prep. no. 2/
<collectingDate value="2019-12-17">17 Dec. 2019</collectingDate>
</materialsCitation>
<specimenCount></specimenCount>
; coll. NUPP. •
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2019-02-04" collectorName="K. Nupponen, R. Haverinen" country="Peru" elevation="980" latitude="-7.2166667" location="Chilete village" longLatPrecision="129" longitude="-78.755" municipality="Lequetepeque River" specimenCount="2" specimenCount-female="1" specimenCount-male="1" stateProvince="Cajamarca">
<specimenCount type="male">1 ♂</specimenCount>
,
<specimenCount type="female">1 ♀</specimenCount>
; prov.
<collectingRegion country="Peru" name="Cajamarca">Cajamarca</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Lequetepeque River</collectingMunicipality>
, near
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;
<geoCoordinate degrees="7" direction="south" minutes="13.0" orientation="latitude" precision="92" value="-7.2166667">7°13.0'S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="78" direction="west" minutes="45.3" orientation="longitude" precision="92" value="-78.755">78°45.3'W</geoCoordinate>
;
<elevation metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="9.8" unit="m" value="980.0">
<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="9.8" unit="m" value="980.0">980 m</quantity>
a.s.l.
</elevation>
;
<collectingDate value="2019-02-04">4 Feb. 2019</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>K. Nupponen</collectorName>
&amp;
<collectorName>R. Haverinen</collectorName>
leg.
</materialsCitation>
; [BOLD sample IDs] KN01082, KN01083; [genitalia preparations]
<quantity metricMagnitude="-2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="5.08" unit="in" value="2.0">2 in</quantity>
glycerol; coll. NUPP. •
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2019-01-31" collectorName="K. Nupponen, R. Haverinen" country="Peru" elevation="1180" latitude="-10.218333" location="Raquia village" longLatPrecision="129" longitude="-77.56" municipality="Fortaleza River" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-male="1" stateProvince="Ancash">
<specimenCount type="male">1 ♂</specimenCount>
; prov.
<collectingRegion country="Peru" name="Ancash">Ancash</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Fortaleza River</collectingMunicipality>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:2C1FB03D9EB65073B04E50C6E0BC1788:BFF2143F378761D219717525FC5F17D1" country="Peru" latitude="-10.218333" longLatPrecision="129" longitude="-77.56" municipality="Fortaleza River" name="Raquia village" stateProvince="Ancash">Raquia village</location>
<quantity metricMagnitude="4" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.3" unit="km" value="13.0">13 km</quantity>
SW;
<geoCoordinate degrees="10" direction="south" minutes="13.1" orientation="latitude" precision="92" value="-10.218333">10°13.1'S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="77" direction="west" minutes="33.6" orientation="longitude" precision="92" value="-77.56">77°33.6'W</geoCoordinate>
;
<elevation metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.18" unit="m" value="1180.0">
<quantity metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.18" unit="m" value="1180.0">1180 m</quantity>
a.s.l.
</elevation>
;
<collectingDate value="2019-01-31">31 Jan. 2019</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>K. Nupponen</collectorName>
&amp;
<collectorName>R. Haverinen</collectorName>
leg.
</materialsCitation>
;
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2019-12-17" country="Peru" location="Nupponen" specimenCount="1">
[BOLD sample ID] KN01085; [genitalia slide] K.
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:2C1FB03D9EB65073B04E50C6E0BC1788:ABA9A21C46C9B399CFB5207F5C582DB5" country="Peru" name="Nupponen">Nupponen</location>
prep. no. 3/
<collectingDate value="2019-12-17">17 Dec.2019</collectingDate>
</materialsCitation>
; coll. NUPP.
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2017-09-16" collectorName="K. Nupponen, R. Haverinen" country="Argentina" elevation="620" latitude="-24.633333" location="Algarrobal village" longLatPrecision="125" longitude="-64.90833" municipality="Rio San Francisco" specimenCount="1" specimenCount-male="1" stateProvince="Salta">
<collectingCountry name="Argentina">Argentina</collectingCountry>
<specimenCount type="male">1 ♂</specimenCount>
; prov.
<collectingRegion country="Argentina" name="Salta">Salta</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Rio San Francisco</collectingMunicipality>
, by
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:2C1FB03D9EB65073B04E50C6E0BC1788:B562CCCF7652A1020C54B4A525490D31" country="Argentina" latitude="-24.633333" longLatPrecision="125" longitude="-64.90833" municipality="Rio San Francisco" name="Algarrobal village" stateProvince="Salta">Algarrobal village</location>
;
<geoCoordinate degrees="24" direction="south" minutes="38.0" orientation="latitude" precision="92" value="-24.633333">24°38.0'S</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate degrees="64" direction="west" minutes="54.5" orientation="longitude" precision="92" value="-64.90833">64°54.5'W</geoCoordinate>
;
<elevation metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.2" unit="m" value="620.0">
<quantity metricMagnitude="2" metricUnit="m" metricValue="6.2" unit="m" value="620.0">620 m</quantity>
a.s.l.
</elevation>
;
<collectingDate value="2017-09-16">16 Sep. 2017</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>K. Nupponen</collectorName>
&amp;
<collectorName>R. Haverinen</collectorName>
leg.
</materialsCitation>
;
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2019-12-13" country="Argentina" location="Nupponen" specimenCount="1">
[BOLD sample ID] KN01039; [genitalia slide] K.
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:2C1FB03D9EB65073B04E50C6E0BC1788:5668285FE5557DE6F979F5D07979B2A8" country="Argentina" name="Nupponen">Nupponen</location>
prep. no. 2/
<collectingDate value="2019-12-13">13 Dec. 2019</collectingDate>
</materialsCitation>
; coll. NUPP.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">
<taxonomicName authorityName="Nupponen 1 &amp; Sihvonen" authorityYear="2022" class="Insecta" family="Scythrididae" genus="Scythris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Scythris dividua" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dividua">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Scythris dividua</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Amaranthaceae" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="S. medullata" order="Caryophyllales" pageId="0" pageNumber="19" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="medullata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">S. medullata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, and
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Amaranthaceae" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="S. notorrhoa" order="Caryophyllales" pageId="0" pageNumber="19" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="notorrhoa">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">S. notorrhoa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
are similar externally. Reliable determination can be achieved by genitalia examination (DNA barcodes not available for all these three taxa yet). Uncus pentagonal, heavily sclerotised in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Nupponen 1 &amp; Sihvonen" authorityYear="2022" class="Insecta" family="Scythrididae" genus="Scythris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Scythris dividua" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dividua">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Scythris dividua</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; rectangular, small, less sclerotised in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Nupponen 1 &amp; Sihvonen" authorityYear="2022" class="Insecta" family="Scythrididae" genus="Scythris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Scythris medullata" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="medullata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Scythris medullata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; oval and heavily sclerotised in
<taxonomicName authorityName=", genus combination" authorityYear="2022" baseAuthorityName="Meyrick" baseAuthorityYear="1921" class="Insecta" family="Scythrididae" genus="Scythris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Scythris notorrhoa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="notorrhoa">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Scythris notorrhoa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Valvae narrow basally, inner margin without sclerotisations in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Nupponen 1 &amp; Sihvonen" authorityYear="2022" class="Insecta" family="Scythrididae" genus="Scythris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Scythris dividua" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dividua">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Scythris dividua</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; broad basally, inner margin with minute sclerotisation in
<taxonomicName authorityName="Nupponen 1 &amp; Sihvonen" authorityYear="2022" class="Insecta" family="Scythrididae" genus="Scythris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Scythris medullata" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="medullata">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Scythris medullata</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; asymmetrical, inner margin with large sclerotisations in
<taxonomicName authorityName=", genus combination" authorityYear="2022" baseAuthorityName="Meyrick" baseAuthorityYear="1921" class="Insecta" family="Scythrididae" genus="Scythris" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Scythris notorrhoa" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="19" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="notorrhoa">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Scythris notorrhoa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. Segment VIII distinct in each three species, see illustrations.
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="19" type="description">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">The original description is quoted: &quot;Wingspan 11-12 mm ♂, ♀. Head, palpi and thorax dark violet-bronzy-grey, somewhat touched with whitish. Antennal ciliations of ♂ 0.75. Abdomen dark grey, suffused with ochreous-white beneath with both sexes. Forewings lanceolate; dark violet-bronzy-grey, either irregularly sprinkled with whitish except towards base, or with two closely adjacent whitish longitudinal streaks from base, upper median; reaching to about 0.75, lower reaching to beyond middle, and with every transitional variation between these two forms, the streaks and irroration varying in development but always one or the other present; plical and second discal stigmata more or less perceptible as obscure spots of dark fuscous suffusion, and sometimes one or two other similar spots in disc: cilia fuscous, variably mixed with whitish towards base. Hindwings 0.66, 4 and 5 separate; dark fuscous, thinly scaled anteriorly; cilia dark grey.&quot;</paragraph>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Male genitalia</emphasis>
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Uncus rectangular, small. Gnathos base narrow belt; distal arm robust, rectangular with sclerotised tip. Tegumen hood-shaped. Phallus as long as gnathos, slim and shallowly bent, posterior quarter tapered, tip pointed. Valvae short, asymmetrical, broad, as long as gnathos; left valva slightly narrower, inner margin with minute sclerotisation, ventral margin with small sclerotised extension; right valva with semi-circular and heavily sclerotised extension at ventral margin, apical margin dentate. Sternum VIII large asymmetrical plate; basal portion rectangular with anterior apodemes, V-shaped reinforcement at middle; posterior part with two large extensions, left rectangular with horn-shaped lateral extension, right rectangular with rounded corners and posteriorly with seven long pegs. Tergum VIII small asymmetrical plate with bunch of long bristles.
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Female genitalia</emphasis>
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Sterigma funnel-shaped, broad and rather short. Ostium round. Sternum VII trapezoid, medioposteriorly cleft, anterior margin chitinised. Apophyses anteriores short, one quarter length of apophyses posteriores.
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="19" type="distribution">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Distribution.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru.</paragraph>
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="19" type="habitat">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Habitat.</paragraph>
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The moth inhabits moist riverside meadows (Fig.
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).
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="19" type="genetic data">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Genetic data.</paragraph>
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BIN: BOLD:ADZ5133 (
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= 6 from Costa Rica and Peru). Genetically slightly heterogenous, maximum variation 0.49%. Nearest neighbor: North American
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Neoscythris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. (
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, BIN: BOLD:ABA1135, 0.29%).
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<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="19" type="remarks">
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">
New to Argentina. Originally the type series comprise 80 specimens, but only 13 exx. remain in the Meyrick collection (Colombia, Cali, 500 feet; Caldas 4400 feet; La Crumbre 6600 feet, in May. Ecuador, Huigra 4500 feet, in June; Peru, Lima 500 feet, in June; Chosica 2800 feet, in July and August (Parish). In the original description
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">S. medullata</emphasis>
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is mentioned as an externally very variable species, and the variation being to some extent localised, the specimens from one locality being mostly externally similar.
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