Athis inca subsp. inca inca (Walker 1854
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Athis inca inca Walker, 1854
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Castnia inca Walker, 1854:24-25 [Mexico, “ Venezuela,” Honduras Lectotype].
Castnia inca Herrich-Schäffer, 1855: 56, figs. 488-489 [Mexico] [Lamas (1995) considers this taxon to be pre.occupied by inca Walker and synonymous with ssp. orizabensis].
Castnia inca Herrich-Schäffer; Westwood, 1877:174.
Castnia clitarcha Westwood, 1877: 176, lam. 31, fig. 1 (in part, Ƌ): 176, lam. 31, fig. 1 [¿? Panama, ¿? Nicaragua].
Castnia inca Walker, Butler, 1877: Plt. M1, fig. 151.
Castnia inca Walker, Preiss, 1899, Plt. II, fig. 5.
Castnia inca Herrich-Schäffer; Druce, 1883: 26.
Castnia clitarcha Westwood (machoƋ); Druce, 1883:26 [Westwood’s Ƌ C. clitarcha may be from Nicaragua since the ♀ is from Panama, but Druce does not include Nicaragua in the range of C. inca, mentioning only Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Venezuela].
Castnia inca hondurana Strand, 1913: 11 [Honduras].
Aciloa inca Walker; Houlbert, 1918:438.
Castnia inca inca Walker; Miller 1972:4-5, figs. 5, 7, 18-21, 28-31 [Miller considers Westwood’s Ƌ clitarcha Westwood to be a synonym of Castnia inca, but there is no specific locality, hence the type locality of Nicaragua; Walker does not clearly define one or the other species.
Athis inca (WALKER); Fletcher & Nye, 1982:2 [the designated Lectotype is from Honduras].
Athis inca (Walker), Miller, 1995: 134.
Athis inca inca (Walker); Lamas, 1995:76.
Athis inca inca (Walker) [Honduras], Lamas, 1995: 76.
Athis inca inca (Walker), Miller et al., 2012:10.
Athis inca (Walker); González y Hernández-Baz, 2012:148 [mention that Athis inca y Athis clitarcha overlap in Honduras and Guatemala].
Athis inca (Walker); Salazar et al., 2013: 9 [according to Lamas (1995) the Holotype is from Honduras].
This is the most common ssp. in the Athis inca complex (Miller 1972). It can be found from Mexico to Panama, and it is a highly variable ssp. (Miller 1972; González et al. 2008). It is a day-flying moth with the highest peak of activity around noon. Specimens had been collected after being attracted to fermented plantain bait (ripe plantain, sugar, and beer) (González et al. 2008). It was described by Walker (1854; as Castnia inca) from material collected in “ Mexico, Venezuela, and Honduras.” Even though it can be frequently found in Mexico, it appears to be rare in Honduras. Also, we have not been able to find another specimen from Venezuela. The only one we know from that country is Walker (1854) specimen in the NHMUK. Eventually, the type locality for Athis inca (Walker) was designated as “ Honduras ” (Fletcher & Nye 1982). Houlbert (1918) mentions that he examined five specimens in the Charles Oberthür collection.
Material examined: 1 Ƌ, Type, 45, 123 [“from Mr. Dyson’s collection”] (NHMUK); 1 Ƌ, Type, 88. Wittk., Castnia inca Wlk. ab. hondurana, Strand det., Inca H.S. (MNHU).
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- Collection code
- MNHU , NHMUK
- Scientific name authorship
- inca (Walker
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Castniidae
- Genus
- Athis
- Species
- inca
- Taxon rank
- subSpecies
- Type status
- holotype , lectotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Athis inca subsp. inca (Walker, 1854 sec. Berghe, 2020
References
- Walker, F. (1854) List of specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part I-Lepidoptera Heterocera. Vol. 1. British Museum, London, 278 pp.
- Lamas, G. (1995) A critical review of J. Y. Miller's checklist of the Neotropical Castniidae (Lepidoptera). Revista Peruana de Entomologia, 37, 73 - 87.
- Westwood, J. O. (1877) A Monograph of the Lepidopterous genus Castnia and some allied groups. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology, Series 2, 1, 155 - 207, pls. 28 - 33. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1877. tb 00437. x
- Butler, A. G. (1877) s. n. Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the British Museum, London, 1877, i-xiii + 1 - 62.
- Preiss, P. (1899) Neue und selten arten des Lepidopteres genus Castnia. Priv. Pub. Ludwigshafen a., Rhein, 11 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9340
- Strand, E. (1913) Gattung: Castnia F. In: Seitz, A. (Ed.), Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. Vol. 6. A. Kernen, Stuttgart, pp. 7 - 17.
- Houlbert, C. (1918) Revision monographique de la sous-famille des Castniinae. Etudes de Lepidopterologie Comparee, 15, 1 - 730.
- Miller, J. Y. (1972) Review of the Central American Castnia inca complex (Castniidae). Bulletin of the Allyn Museum, 6, 1 - 13.
- Fletcher, D. S. & Nye, I. W. B. (1982) The generic names of Moths of the World. Vol. 4. Bombycoidea, Castnioidea, Cossoidea, Mimallinoidea, Sesioidea, Sphingoidea, Zygaenoidea. British Museum (Natural History), London, xiv + 192 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 119597
- Miller, J. Y. (1995) Castniidae. In: Heppner J. B. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera Checklist Part 2. Hyblaecidae-Pyraloidea- Tortricoidea. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera Scientific Publications, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 133 - 137.
- Miller, J. Y., Matthews, D. L., Warren, A. D., Solis, M. A., Harvey, D. J., Gentili-Poole, P., Lehman, R., Emmel, T. C. & Covell, C. V. Jr. (2012) An Annotated List of the Lepidoptera of Honduras. Insecta Mundi, 205, 1 - 72.
- Salazar, J. A., Rodriguez, G. & Rodriguez, C. (2013) Datos adicionales sobre Castnidos colombianos (Lepidoptera: Castniidae). Boletin del Museo Entomologico Francisco Luis Gallego, 5 (2), 7 - 17.
- Gonzalez, J. M., Hernandez-Baz, F. & Vinciguerra, R. (2008) Notes on some Athis inca ssp. collected in Mexico (Lepidoptera: Castniidae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterologia, 36 (144), 473 - 476.