Two new Andean species of Alychna Grishin, 2019 (Hesperiidae, Hesperiinae, Hesperiini, Moncina) from Bolivia and Peru

Adalberto Dantas DE Medeiros; Diego Rodrigo Dolibaina; Olaf Hermann Hendrik Mielke; Mirna Martins Casagrande

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4751.1.12

Two new Andean species of Alychna Grishin, 2019 (Hesperiidae, Hesperiinae, Hesperiini, Moncina) from Bolivia and Peru

Zootaxa. 2020 Mar 16;4751(1):zootaxa.4751.1.12. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4751.1.12.

Authors

Adalberto Dantas DE Medeiros¹, Diego Rodrigo Dolibaina, Olaf Hermann Hendrik Mielke, Mirna Martins Casagrande

Affiliation

¹ Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, P.O. Box 19.020, 81.531-980 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.. user@example.com.

PMID: 32230440
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4751.1.12

Abstract

Two new species of Alychna Grishin, 2019, Alychna chulumani Medeiros, Dolibaina O. Mielke sp. nov. from Bolivia (La Paz, Chulumani) and Alychna argenteus Medeiros, Dolibaina Casagrande sp. nov. from Peru (Huánuco, Carpish) are described. Illustrations of the wing pattern, forewing stigma and male genitalia of the two species are provided.

Keywords: Lepidoptera, morphology, Neotropical region, skipper taxonomy.

MeSH terms

Animals
Bolivia
Lepidoptera*
Male
Peru