Description of a new species of Euptychiina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from South America

Zootaxa. 2017 Feb 12;4231(3):zootaxa.4231.3.10. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4231.3.10.

Abstract

A new species of Magneuptychia Forster, 1964 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), Magneuptychia andrei Zacca, Casagrande & Mielke sp. n., is described and illustrated from Venezuela, French Guiana, Trinidad and Tobago and northern Brazil. A comparative diagnosis between the new species and Magneuptychia ocypete (Fabricius, 1776), M. fugitiva Lamas, [1997] and Cissia terrestris (Butler, 1867) is also provided due the similarities in wing pattern.

Keywords: Lepidoptera, Euptychiina, Magneuptychia, Neotropical region, Satyrini, taxonomy.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brazil
  • Butterflies
  • French Guiana
  • Lepidoptera*
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Venezuela