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Micandra dignota Draudt 1919

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Micandra dignota (Draudt, 1919)

Thecla dignota Draudt, 1919: 754, pl. 153b.

Thecla obliterata Lathy, 1936.

Micandra dignota (Draudt, 1919); Clench 1971: 2; Robbins 2004: 120.

Taxonomic history and remarks. This species was described by Draudt (1919) from a single male from Bogotá. Subsequently, Lathy (1936) described T. obliterata from a supposed male from Pampas, Peru. The specimen illustrated by Lathy is a female, not a male, and is now associated with M. dignota. Clench (1971) and Robbins (2004) correctly treated this species as a congener of Micandra platyptera.

Diagnosis. Males are easily distinguished by a rounded androconial brand in the distal portion of the discal cell. No other Micandra species in Colombia has such a brand on the dorsal forewing. The rounded androconial brand is shared with M. tongida (Clench) from Mexico. Males and females are distinguished by the red-brown anal lobe on the dorsal hindwing.

Distribution. In Colombia this species is known from only a few specimens from Central Cordillera in Cauca (western slope) and Western Cordillera in Risaralda at 2740 m above sea level

Material examined. CAUCA: 1 3 CP*: Cauca, Totoró, Cerro de la Horqueta, 2740m, 02/06/2009, Leg. C. Prieto, m1176; 2 Ƥ CP*: Cauca, Totoró, Cerro de la Horqueta, 2740m, 02/06/2009, Leg. C. Prieto, m1177, m1160.

Notes

Published as part of Prieto, Carlos, 2011, The genus Micandra Staudinger (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae) in Colombia, with the description of a new species from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, pp. 55-68 in Zootaxa 3040 on page 61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.278794

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Draudt
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Lycaenidae
Genus
Micandra
Species
dignota
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Micandra dignota Draudt, 1919 sec. Prieto, 2011

References

  • Draudt, M. (1919) Theclini F. In: A. Seitz (Ed). Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, vol. 5. Die amerikanischen Tagfalter, Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart, pp. 744 - 812.
  • Lathy, P. (1936) Thecla nouveaux d'Amerique du Sud (Lepidoptera Lycaenidae), In: Livre Jubilaire de M. Eugene-Louis Bouvier. Fermin-Didot et Cie., Paris, pp. 229 - 232.
  • Clench, H. K. (1971) Two new hairstreaks from Mexico (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), Bulletin of the Allyn Museum, 3, 1 - 6.
  • Robbins, R. K. (2004) Checklist of Eumaeini. 98. Lycaenidae Theclinae, Eumaeini. 118 - 137 pp. In: Lamas, G., Checklist of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Part 4 A. Hesperioidea- Papilionoidea. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. J. Heppner (Ed.) Scientific Publishers, Gainesville, 439 pp.