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- Title
Description of the hitherto unknown female of Napaea joinvilea (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Mesosemiini), with a discussion on its taxonomic status.
- Authors
Silva Dias, Fernando Maia; Casagrande, Mirna Martins; Hendrik Mielke, Olaf Hermann
- Abstract
The hitherto unknown female of Napaea joinvilea Hall & Harvey, 2005 (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Mesosemiini) is described, and new distribution records for the species--until now only known from a single locality in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil--are presented, expanding the distribution more than 1.500 kilometers northwards. Diagnosis and description of the female, distinction from similar sympatric species, illustrations of the imagines and male and female genitalia are provided. Special attention is given to distinguish N. joinvilea from its sisterspecies, N. melampia (Bates, 1867), a rare species known only from unspecified localities in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Based on the female and the new distributional records, N. joinviliea is clearly recognized as a distinct species.
- Subjects
CLASSIFICATION of insects; LEPIDOPTERA; SYMPATRIC speciation; INSECT phylogeny; INSECT rearing; SPECIES distribution
- Publication
Florida Entomologist (Florida Entomological Society), 2015, Vol 98, Issue 1, p126
- ISSN
0015-4040
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1653/024.098.0121