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Machaeraptenus ventralis

  • 1. Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade, Ecologia, Evolução e Sistemática (PPGBEES), Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidópteros Neotropicais (LELN), Rua Vera Paz s / n, CEP: 68040 - 255, Santarém, PA, Brazil
  • 2. Departamento de Química e Biologia do Ensino Superior de Caxias - Universidade Estadual do Maranhão- CESC / UEMA, Laboratório de Estudos dos Lepidópteros (LEL), Morro do Alecrim, s / n - CEP 65.600 - 000, Caxias, MA, Brazil
  • 3. Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA), Instituto de Ciências da Educação (ICED), Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidópteros Neotropicais (LELN), Rua Vera Paz s / n, CEP: 68040 - 255, Santarém, PA, Brazil

Description

Machaeraptenus ventralis (Schaus, 1894)

Type locality. Venezuela, [Aragua], Aroa.

Type specimen. Lectotype ♁ no. 11043 designated by Watson (1971: 95) (USNM).

Taxonomic references. Schaus (1894), Rothschild (1916), Hampson (1920), Watson (1975), Watson & Goodger (1986) and Vincent & Laguerre (2014).

Material examined. Brazil, Maranhão: Açailândia, 4°57'14.17"S / 47°30'11.08"W. Light traps, 19–27.xi.1990, V.O. Becker legit, 4 specimens (VOB).

Month records in Maranhão. November.

Geographical records in Brazil. Pará (Amazon).

Notes

Published as part of Silva, Karoline M. O., Câmara, Joseleide T. & Teston, José A., 2023, An annotated catalogue of the Phaegopterina (Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini) of state of Maranhão, Brazil, pp. 1-40 in Zootaxa 5285 (1) on page 21, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5285.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7935723

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
USNM , VOB
Event date
1990-11-19
Verbatim event date
1990-11-19/27
Scientific name authorship
Schaus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Arctiidae
Genus
Machaeraptenus
Species
ventralis
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Machaeraptenus ventralis (Schaus, 1894) sec. Silva, Câmara & Teston, 2023

References

  • Schaus, W. (1894) On new Species of Heterocera from tropical America. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1894, 225 - 243.
  • Watson, A. (1971) An Illustrated Catalogue of the Neotropic Arctiinae Types in the United States National Museum (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Part I. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 50, 1 - 361. https: // doi. org / 10.5479 / si. 00810282.50
  • Rothschild, L. W. (1916) Some new Arctiadae. Novitates Zoologicae, 23, 264 - 271.
  • Hampson, G. F. (1920) Catalogue of the Lithosiadae (Arctianae) and Phalaenoididae in the collection of the British Museum. Vol. 2. Printed by order of the Trustees, London, 619 pp.
  • Watson, A. (1975) A reclassification of the Arctiidae and Ctenuchidae formerly placed in the tryretid genus Automolis Hilbrier (Lepidoptera) with notes on warning coloration and sound. Bulletin of the British Museum Natural History, Entomology Series, 25, 1 - 14. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / p. 313989
  • Watson, A. & Goodger, D. T. (1986) Catalogue of the Neotropical Tiger-moths. Department of Entomology, British Museum (Natural History). Occasional Papers on Systematic Entomology, 1, 1 - 71.
  • Vincent, B. & Laguerre, M. (2014) Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae). Zoosystema, 36 (2), 137 - 534. https: // doi. org / 10.5252 / z 2014 n 2 a 1