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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
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  • 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

Cibyra yungas (Viette, 1961)

Pl. 3: Fig. 15–16, Pl. 10: Fig. 14, Pl. 15: Fig. 4, Pl. 19: Fig. 14

Xytrops yungas Viette (1961: 3; fig. 4 ([holotype] ♂ gen.)); holotype ♂, Bolivia, [Cochabamba], Yungas del Palmar, 2000 m, R. Zischka leg.; GP P. Viette no. 3790; ZSBS (examined) [holotype ♂ with the following labels: / BOLIVIA, Yungas del Palmar, 2000 m, leg. R. Zischka, Zoolog. Staatsslg / TYPE/ Holotypus, Xytropus [sic] yungas Vtte., Zool. Staatssammlung München / Genitalia ♂, P. Viette, Prép. No. 3790/ P.E.L. Viette det 1960, Xytropsyungas n.sp. Holotype P. Viette / Specimen photog Checklist Aust Lep Film 169/32]

Aepytus (Xytrops) yungas: Nielsen & Robinson (1983: 20).— Robinson & Nielsen (1984: 17).

Cibyra (Xytrops) yungas: Nielsen et al. (2000: 842).

Cibyra yungas: Mielke & Grehan (2012: 137).— Grehan et al. (2023: 78).

Diagnosis. The pseudotegumen folded outwards posteriorly, a unique condition within the genus as are the phallus with two diverticula only on its antero-ventral portion, and the inward folded fultura inferior.

Examined material (in total 2 ♂). Bolivia. Cochabamba. 1 ♂, HT; 1 ♂, Chapare, Locotal, 1200 m: 1 ♂, X.2019, Calderón-Villavicencio leg. (CGCM 42.521; CGCM).

Male (Pl. 3: Fig. 15–16, Pl. 10: Fig. 14). Forewing length: 19 mm, wingspan: 40 mm.

Male genitalia (Pl. 15: Fig. 4, Pl. 19: Fig. 14). Saccus with posterior edge concave. Tegumen rectangular, slightly curved. Tergal lobes protruded posteriorly. Pseudotegumen less reinforced anteriorly than posteriorly, the latter expanded latero-posteriorly and folded outwards. Fultura inferior rectangular, twice as wide as long, posterior margin inward folded. Valvae apically pointed (not visible in the Pl. 15: Fig. 4).

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. Known from two localities in Cochabamba, Bolivia (Pl. 28: Fig. 1).

Remarks. Viette (1961) figured the male genitalia in the original description, so here the male is figured for the first time.

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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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
CGCM
Material sample ID
CGCM 42.521
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

References

  • Viette, P. (1961) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Insektenfauna Boliviens XV. Lepidoptera II. Contribution a l'etude des Hepialidae. 34 eme note. Especes sud-americaines nouvelles ou peu connues du Museum de Munich. Opuscula Zoologica, 55, 1-7, 6 figs.
  • Nielsen, E. S. & Robinson, G. S. (1983) Ghost moths of southern South America (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) [With a summary in Spanish prepared by P. Gentili: ≫ Mariposas Fantasmas del sur de Sudamerica ≪.]. Entomograph, 4, 1-192, 431 figs. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004611993
  • Robinson, G. S. & Nielsen, E. S. (1984) Hepialidae. In: Heppner, J. B. (Ed.), Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 1. Micropterigoidea - Immoidea. W. Junk, Den Haag, pp. i - xxvii + 1-112. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004630567_004
  • Nielsen, E. S., Robinson, G. S. & Wagner, D. L. (2000) Ghost-moths of the world: a global inventory and bibliography of the Exoporia (Mnesarchaeoidea and Hepialoidea) (Lepidoptera). Journal of Natural History, 34, 823-878. https://doi.org/10.1080/002229300299282
  • Mielke, C. G. C. & Grehan, J. R. (2012) Catalogue of the Latin American Hepialidae with taxonomic remarks (Lepidoptera). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo, N. F., 32 (3 / 4), 131-158.
  • Grehan, J. R., Mielke, C. G. C., Turner, J. R. G. & Nielsen, J. E. (2023) A revised world catalogue of Ghost Moths (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae) with taxonomic and biological annotations. Zoonova, Occasional Papers in Zoology 28, 1-337.