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Corybantes Hubner 1819

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Posgrado en Ciencias, Instituto de Ecología A. C., Red de Biodiversidad y Sistemática, Carretera antigua a Coatepec 351, El Haya, 91073 Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico; Sociedad Mexicana de Lepidopterología A. C.
  • 2. BioAlfa, Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund Costa Rica, 749 - 1000, San José, Costa Rica
  • 3. 10 The Hill, Church Hill, Caterham, Surrey CR 3 6 SD, U. K.
  • 4. Austin Achieve Public Schools, Austin, Texas, (Research Associate, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity), USA
  • 5. Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

Description

II. Corybantes Hübner, [1819]

According to the latest taxonomic revision, this genus has four large species: C. dolopia (H. Druce, 1907), C. mathani (Oberthür, 1881), C. pylades (Stoll, 1782), and C. veraguana (Westwood, 1877) (Moraes & Duarte 2014), although, how closely related they are is open to some doubt (Worthy et al. 2022). They are largely dark moths that show only slight sexual dimorphism (Lamas 1995; Vinciguerra 2008; Moraes & Duarte 2014). Most taxa are South American; however, C. veraguana veraguana (Westwood, 1877) is known from Central America (Maes & González 2022). Reports indicate that individuals fly during the day (from 9 a.m. to noon), however, some have been collected with mercury vapor light traps at night (Miller 1986, Vinciguerra 2008; Cock & González 2012; Jean-Michel Maes, pers. comm.). Specimens of the possibly related C. mathani have been observed flying during the morning, but also during the twilight hours in Puerto Ayacucho, Venezuela (Cock & González 2012; Francisco de la Villa, Renato & Roberto Mattei, pers. comm.). Not much is known about the biology, ecology, and behavior of the taxa. Strand (1913) reported that C. pylades larvae feed on bananas (Musaceae); while Moss (1945) recorded females of this species ovipositing on various species of palms (Arecaceae) in Pará, Brazil. Moss (1945) also pointed out that Acrocomia sclerocarpa Mart. (= Acrocomia aculeata (Jacq.) Lodd. Ex Mart.) (Arecaceae) could possibly be the host plant for C. mathani in Pará, Brazil.

Notes

Published as part of García-Díaz, José De Jesús, Espinoza-Sanabria, Bernardo A., Worthy, Robert, González, Jorge M., Janzen, Daniel H. & Hallwachs, Winnie, 2024, Synopsis of the Castniidae (Lepidoptera) of Costa Rica, pp. 151-202 in Zootaxa 5481 (2) on page 156, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5481.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/12749637

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Hubner
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Castniidae
Genus
Corybantes
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Corybantes Hubner, 1819 sec. García-Díaz, Espinoza-Sanabria, Worthy, González, Janzen & Hallwachs, 2024

References

  • Westwood, J. O. (1877) A Monograph of the Lepidopterous genus Castnia and some allied groups. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, 2 (1), 155 - 207, pls. 28 - 33. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1877. tb 00437. x
  • Moraes, S. & Duarte, M. (2014) Phylogeny of Neotropical Castniinae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Castniidae): testing the hypothesis of the mimics as a monophyletic group and implications for the arrangement of the genera. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 170 (2), 362 - 399. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / zoj. 12102
  • Worthy, R., Gonzalez, J. M. & Zilli, A. (2022) A review of the genera Amauta Houlbert, 1918 and Divana J. Y. Miller, 1982 (Lepidoptera: Castniidae) with description of a new genus. Zootaxa, 5194 (3), 301 - 342. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5194.3.1
  • Lamas, G. (1995) A critical review of J. Y. Miller´s checklist of the Neotropical Castniidae (Lepidoptera). Revista Peruana de Entomologia, 37, 73 - 87.
  • Vinciguerra, R. (2008) Osservazioni su alcuni taxa dei generi: Corybantes Hubner, [1819], Athis Hubner, [1819], Zegara Oiticica, 1955, Mirocastnia Miller, 1980 e Insigniocastnia Miller, 2007 (Lepidoptera: Castniidae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterologia, 36 (144), 491 - 499.
  • Maes, J. M. & Gonzalez, J. M. (2022) Ampliacion geografica de Corybantes veraguana veraguana (Westwood, 1877) y Athis clitarcha (Westwood, 1977) para la fauna de Nicaragua (Lepidoptera: Castniidae). Revista Nicaraguense de Entomologia, 274, 1 - 14. https: // doi. org / 10.5281 / zenodo. 7200048
  • Miller, J. Y. (1986) The Taxonomy, Phylogeny, and Zoogeography of the Neotropical Castniidae (Lepidoptera: Castnoidea: Castniidae), Ph. D. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, 571 pp.
  • Cock, M. J. W & Gonzalez, J. M. (2012) Corybantes mathani (Oberthur) (Lepidoptera: Castniidae), an addition to the insect fauna of Trinidad, West Indies, and a probable oviposition on Moriche, Mauritia flexuosa (Arecaceae). Living World, 2012, 67 - 69.
  • Strand, E. (1913) Gattung: Castnia F. In: Seitz, A. (Ed.), Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Vol. 6. A. Kernen, Stuttgart, pp. 7 - 17.
  • Moss, A. M. (1945) The Castnia of Para with notes on others (Lep. Castniidae). Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London (B), 14, 48 - 52.