Published June 3, 2025
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Dysschema picta
- 1. Museu de Diversidade Biológica, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Rua Monteiro Lobato, 255, Campinas, SP, CEP 13083 - 862, Brazil
- 2. Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Rua Monteiro Lobato, 255, Campinas, SP, CEP 13083 - 862, Brazil
Description
Dysschema picta (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
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Remarks.
A sexually dimorphic species. Males show less variable wing pattern, similar to glass wing butterflies, while females have wing polychromatism and show a black yellow and orange tiger pattern. Immatures were reared by Spitz (1931) in Mikania hirsutissima and Senecio brasiliensis, and by Travassos Filho (1947) in Vernonia polyanthes (all Asteraceae). Travassos Filho (1947) made the association between males and females, and documented the polychromatism presented by females, resulting in the establishment of synonyms.
Material examined.
1 male, Brazil, Santa Catarina, Hansa?; 1 male, Santa Catarina, New Bremen [Seara municipality]; 1 male, no locality.
Notes
Published as part of Moraes, Simeão de Souza, Freitas, André Victor Lucci & Silva-Brandão, Karina Lucas, 2025, Illustrated catalogue of Pericopina (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) in the Museum of Nature Hamburg – Zoology, pp. 123-134 in Evolutionary Systematics 9 (1) on pages 123-134, DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.9.150930
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Guerin-Meneville
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Dysschema
- Species
- picta
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Dysschema picta (Guerin-Meneville, 1844) sec. Moraes, Freitas & Silva-Brandão, 2025
References
- Spitz R (1931) Espécies novas de macrolepidópteros brasileiros e suas biologias. Revista do Museu Paulista 17 (1): 459–482.