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- Title
The South American moth Rheumaptera mochica (Dognin, 1904) (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) rediscovered after more than a century of anonymity.
- Authors
Vargas, Héctor A.; Alma Solis, M.; Vargas-Ortiz, Marcelo
- Abstract
Rheumaptera mochica (Dognin, 1904) (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) is reported from Chile for the first time. It was described from the western slopes of the Andes of southern Peru more than 100 years ago, and was recently rediscovered in Chile after larvae were collected and reared on the shrub Senna birostris var. arequipensis (Meyen ex Vogel) H.S. Irwin & Barneby (Fabaceae). This discovery expands the known distribution of this moth and provides its first host plant record. The genitalia of R. mochica are described and illustrated for the first time and compared to those of R. affirmata (Guenée, [1858]). A maximum likelihood analysis based on mitochondrial DNA sequences clustered R. mochica as sister to R. affirmata with 3.6–3.8% divergence (K2P). A lectotype is designated for Calocalpe mochica Dognin, 1904.
- Subjects
CHILE; ANDES; PERU; GEOMETRIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; MOTHS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; ANONYMITY; PYRALIDAE
- Publication
ZooKeys, 2022, Issue 1085, p129
- ISSN
1313-2989
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3897/zookeys.1085.76868