Cercopimorpha hoffmanni Zerny 1931
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hoffmanni Zerny, 1931
(Figs. 12 and 58)
Cercopimorpha hoffmanni Zerny, 1931b: 15 (Taf. 1, fig. 16). Lectotype hereby designated, male: [BRAZIL], Santa Catarina, Jaraguá (Fr. Hoffmann), with two labels: one printed label “Sta. Catharina, Jaraguá, Fr. Hoffmann ” with the date handwritten on the underside “ 7.ix. [19]29”; and a handwritten label “ Cercopimorpha hoffmanni Zerny ♂ type ”. Three paralectotypes, all males, with the same labels, but different dates: “ 6.xi. [19]29”; “ 20.xi.1929 ”; and “ 31.x. [19]29”.
Current combination. Cercopimorpha hoffmanni Zerny, 1931.
Condition of the types. Lectotype. Perfect condition. Paralectotypes. In perfect condition, except for the specimen from 31.x. [19]29, which has the two hind legs broken.
Remarks. This species was described from four males from the same locality. According to Zerny (1931b), C. hoffmanni is closely related to Heliura dolens Schaus, 1905, and they may in fact be sister species. The genitalia of a male deposited at the MZSP is illustrated in Figure 51.
Cercopimorpha Butler, 1876 currently includes seven valid species, five of which share a similar habitus: C. hoffmanni, C. homopteridia Butler, 1876, H. dolens, H. postflavida Rothschild, 1912 and C. sylva Schaus, 1920. This phenotype was the very reason for the creation of the genus; according to Butler (1876b) the type species, C. homopteridia, resembles an homopteran, hence the name of the species. The name of the genus, on the other hand, is an allusion to Cercopidae. Despite Butler's suggestion, it is not known which species of Cercopidae could have been the one that he thought was similar to C. homopteridia (Dr. Andressa Paladini, personal information).
The two remaining species currently placed in the genus, C. tetragonia Hampson, 1898 and C. meterythra Hampson, 1898, have a very different habitus, and may not belong in it. Their habitus resembles that of Diabaena cincticollis Felder, 1874, type species of Diabaena Felder, 1874, which is currently a junior subjective synonym of Uranophora Hübner, [1831].
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Zerny
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Arctiidae
- Genus
- Cercopimorpha
- Species
- hoffmanni
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cercopimorpha hoffmanni Zerny, 1931 sec. Pinheiro & Gaal-Haszler, 2015
References
- Zerny, H. (1931 b) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Syntomiden. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 45, 1 - 27 + 1 plate.
- Schaus, W. (1905) Descriptions of new South American moths. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 29, 179 - 345. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.1420.179
- Rothschild, W. (1912) New Syntomidae. Novitates Zoologicae, 19 (2), 151 - 186.
- Schaus, W. (1920) New species of Lepidoptera in the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 57, 107 - 152. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00963801.2307.107
- Butler, A. G. (1876 b) On the subfamilies Antichlorinae and Charideinae of the lepidopterous families Zygaenidae and Arctiidae. Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology), 12 (63), 408 - 433.
- Hampson, G. F. (1898) Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum, vol. I: Catalogue of the Syntomidae in the collection of the British Museum. Printed by the order of the Trustees of the British Museum, London, 559 pp.