Telchin atymnius subsp. drucei
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Description
Telchin atymnius drucei (Schaus, 1911)
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Castnia drucei Schaus, 1911 [Costa Rica]
Castnia humboldti f. rufolimba Strand, 1913 [Costa Rica]
Castniomera drucei, Chacón & Montero, 2007: pl 23.
A curious ssp., very variable and similar to T. a. humboldti (Boisduval, [1875]), but tend to be smaller (González & Salazar 2003, González et al. 2010). A thorough morphological and/or molecular study could eventually provide a definitive taxonomic status of this subspecies (González & Domagała 2019). This ssp. is frequently found in Costa Rica, but specimens are known from Panama and Northwestern South America (González & Domagała 2019). Even though this is the first specimen of the ssp. we have seen collected north of Costa Rica, it is not necessarily surprising. However, without other specimens from that country and from Nicaragua, we could think that the specimen could have been mislabeled.
Material examined: HONDURAS: 1 Ƌ, C. saluja, 954, Staudinger 1894. Castnia humboldti var. rufolimba, Strand, Strecker coll. 25598, FMNH-INS 0000 041 4 71 (FMNH)
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Castniidae
- Genus
- Telchin
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Schaus
- Species
- drucei
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Taxonomic concept label
- Telchin atymnius subsp. drucei (Schaus, 1911) sec. Berghe, 2020
References
- Strand, E. (1913) Gattung: Castnia F. In: Seitz, A. (Ed.), Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Vol. 6. A. Kernen, Stuttgart, pp. 7 - 17.
- Chacon, I. & Montero, J. (2007) Butterflies and Moths of Costa Rica. INBIO Press, San Jose, Costa Rica, 366 pp.
- Gonzalez, J. M. & Domagala, P. (2019) A catalogue of the Castniidae (Lepidoptera) in the California Academy of Sciences, with general and historical comments. Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology, 28, 1 - 24.