Published October 15, 2025 | Version v1
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Cibyra yungas

  • 1. Caixa postal 1206, 84.145 - 000 Carambeí, Paraná, Brazil & Research Associate, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA & cmielke 1 @ uol. com. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 0091 - 0840
  • 2. Research Associate, OpenScienceLab, Ngaio, New Zealand & calabar. John @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3119 - 1140
  • 3. Caixa postal 1206, 84.145 - 000 Carambeí, Paraná, Brazil & Estrada das Canjicas, 2500, 07424 - 000, Arujá, São Paulo, Brazil & Caixa postal 1206, 84.145 - 000 Carambeí, Paraná, Brazil & ricardokoike. jp @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6330 - 6416 Corresponding author & Caixa postal 1206, 84.145 - 000 Carambeí, Paraná, Brazil

Description

c) Species-group: yungas.

One species: C. yungas.

Defined by the phallus, everted, as a distal bladder-like vesica with two antero-ventral diverticula (Pl. 19: Fig. 14). In addition, by: i) male sternite VIII uniformly sclerotised, shield-shaped; ii) tegumen extended beyond articulation with saccus; iii) posterior margin of saccus simple; iv) tergal lobes somewhat flattened, resting over the pseudotegumen; v) pseudotegumen expanded posteriorly, then folded outwards, and expanded mesally; vi) fultura inferior folded inward posteriorly, and; vi) valvae digitiform and ribbed.

Distribution. Bolivia (Pl. 28: Fig. 1).

Notes

Published as part of Mielke, Carlos G. C., Grehan, John R. & Koike, Ricardo M., 2025, Review of the genus Cibyra Walker (Lepidoptera: Hepialoidea: Hepialidae) with descriptions of twenty-four new species from Brazil and Argentina, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 5709 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5709.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17882357

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Viette
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Hepialidae
Genus
Cibyra
Species
yungas
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cibyra yungas (Viette, 1961) sec. Mielke, Grehan & Koike, 2025