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Viuria lista Cong et al. 2019

  • 1. Departamento de Biologia Animal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • 2. Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.

Description

Viuria lista (Evans, 1953)

Figs 1I–L, 6–7, 12D

Diagnosis

Viuria lista resembles V. innana sp. nov. in the genitalia pattern but is easily distinguished by the ventral left portion of the tegumen short while in V. innana sp. nov. it is bigger with a spine-like process; both valvae elongated; right ampulla with a dorsal projection and smooth margin while in V. innana sp. nov. the ampulla is smaller than the harpe. Females with the spine-like process of sterigma well developed and sparse when compared with its congeners.

Material examined

BRAZIL • 1 ♂; Rondônia, Ariqueme, 19–20 Mar. 1987; Mielke leg.; OM 14.507; OM • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; OM 14.504; OM • 1 ♂; Rondônia, Cacaulândia; 8–19 Nov. 1994; Mielke leg.; OM 39.078; OM.

Remarks

After its description, Pachyneuria licisca lista Evans, 1953 had its status elevated to species by Steinhauser (1989), with this interpretation followed until its inclusion in the genus Viuria (Cong et al. 2019).

Geographical distribution

Viuria lista is known only from French Guiana (Evans 1953) and in the state of Rondônia, Brazil (Fig. 14).

Notes

Published as part of Siewert, Ricardo Russo, Lemes, José Ricardo Assmann, Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik & Casagrande, Mirna Martins, 2023, Viuria Grishin, 2019 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae): taxonomy, description of two new species, and remarks on the morphology of secondary sexual organs of males, pp. 183-203 in European Journal of Taxonomy 908 on pages 191-193, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.908.2347, http://zenodo.org/record/10212500

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
OM
Material sample ID
OM 14.504 , OM 14.507 , OM 39.078
Event date
1987-03-19 , 1994-11-08
Verbatim event date
1987-03-19/20 , 1994-11-08/19
Scientific name authorship
Cong et al.
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Hesperiidae
Genus
Viuria
Species
lista
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Viuria lista et, 2019 sec. Siewert, Lemes, Mielke & Casagrande, 2023

References

  • Evans W. H. 1953. A Catalogue of the American Hesperiidae Indicating the Classification and Nomenclature Adopted in the British Museum (Natural History). Part III. Pyrginae. Section 2. British Museum, London.
  • Steinhauser S. R. 1989. Taxonomic notes and descriptions of new taxa in the Neotropical Hesperiidae. Part I. Pyrginae. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 127: 1 - 70
  • Cong Q., Zhang J., Shen J. & Grishin N. V. 2019. Fifty new genera of Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera). Insecta Mundi 731: 1 - 56. https: // doi. org / 10.5281 / zenodo. 3677235