Published November 9, 2020 | Version v1
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Sodalia Evans 1955

  • 1. fabianggo @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8119 - 6372
  • 2. eduardo. carneiro @ ufpr. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4796 - 0020
  • 3. McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, U. S. A. awhesp @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6730 - 1938
  • 4. omhesp @ ufpr. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3655 - 4606
  • 5. mibras @ ufpr. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6076 - 8463

Description

Key to the species of Sodalia

1. Wings dark brown, speckled with large areas of yellow scales (Figs 13–18)....................................... 2

- Wings mostly dark brown, almost without yellow scales (Figs 1–12)............................................. 3

2. Head and thorax dorsally covered with green scales (Fig. 27); forewing apex rounded; DFW and DHW with yellow speckling restricted to submarginal areas (Figs 13–16).................................................... S. petiti sp. nov.

- Head and thorax dorsally yellowish (Fig. 28); forewing apex pointed; DFW and DHW with yellow speckling over entire wing surface (Figs 17–18).................................................................. S. spangla comb. nov.

3. VHW with solid whitish postdiscal spots (Figs 6, 8)................................................ S. argyrospila

- VHW with faint ochre postdiscal spots (Figs 2, 4, 10, 12)...................................................... 4

4. Frons covered with opaque, dark brown scales (Fig. 19). VHW postdiscal spots faint and large (Figs 2, 4)........ S. sodalis

- Frons covered with iridescent bluish-green scales (Fig. 21). VHW postdiscal spots better defined and small (Figs 10, 12).................................................................................................. S. coler

Notes

Published as part of Gaviria-Ortiz, Fabian Guillermo, Dolibaina, Diego Rodrigo, Carneiro, Eduardo, Warren, Andrew D., Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik & Casagrande, Mirna Martins, 2020, A review of the Neotropical skipper genus Sodalia Evans, 1955 (Lepidoptera Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae) with the description of a new species, pp. 102-124 in Zootaxa 4877 (1) on page 104, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4877.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/4423887

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