Published September 30, 2022 | Version v1
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. A new subspecies of Oxeoschistus puerta (Westwood, 1851), from the Sierra de Perijá, western Venezuela (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)

  • 1. Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Altos de Pipe, Venezuela
  • 2. Residencias Las Cumbres, Caracas, Venezuela

Description

Oxeoschistus puerta sabinoi ssp. nov., a pronophiline butterfly (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from the montane and upper montane forests (1,100-1,900 m a.s.l.) of the Venezuelan slope of the Sierra de Perijá, Zulia state, Venezuela, is described, illustrated and compared with its close congeners. The taxon O. puerta magnus Pyrcz & Viloria, 2007, from the Serranía del Tamá, is revised and newly identified as Oxeoschistus simplex magnus comb. nov.

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