Title
Species' from two different butterfly genera combined into one: Description of a new genus of Euptychiina (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) with unusually variable wing pattern
Date Issued
01 April 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia
Abstract
Sepona Freitas and Barbosa, gen. nov. is proposed for the Neotropical satyrine butterfly species Euptychia punctata Weymer, 1911 and its junior subjective synonyms Euptychia griseola Weymer, 1911 and Taygetis indecisa Ribeiro, 1931. The new genus has a distinctive wing pattern and shape of the valvae in the male genitalia, the latter being a unique autapomorphy within the subtribe Euptychiina. Based on molecular data, this genus is not sister to any other single euptychiine genus, instead appearing as the sister to all remaining genera in the Taygetis clade. The present paper illustrates the complexity of the taxonomy of Euptychiina, and the importance of using different sources of evidence in taxonomic studies.
Start page
157
End page
165
Volume
60
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84965135800
Source
Revista Brasileira de Entomologia
ISSN of the container
00855626
Sponsor(s)
We would like to thank Keith S. Brown Jr., Blanca Huertas, Marcio Uehara-Prado, Lee D. Miller, Jacqueline Y. Miller, Debra Murray, Jason Hall, Axel Hausmann, Carla Penz, Gláucia Marconato, Yuvinka Gareca and Andreas Segerer for their help in diverse phases of the manuscript. We also thank Poliana F. Araujo and Augusto H. B. Rosa for providing fresh specimens, Luiza M. Magaldi for helping with the DNA extraction and Tamara M. C. Aguiar for helping spread the specimens. Lee D. Miller and Jacqueline Y. Miller gave great inspiration to the first author to work on Satyrinae systematics. EPB acknowledges FAPESP (2012/03750-8) for a graduate fellowship. AVLF acknowledges support from FAPESP (Biota-Fapesp – grants 2011/50225-3 , 2012/50260-6 , 2013/50297-0 ), from the Brazilian Research Council – CNPq (fellowship 302585/2011-7). This publication is part of the RedeLep ‘Rede Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de de Lepidópteros’ SISBIOTA-Brasil/CNPq (563332/2010-7), of the project “Identificação Molecular de Biodiversidade de Invertebrados Terrestres” (grant 564954/2010-1) included in the “Rede Nacional de Identificação Molecular da Biodiversidade—BR-BoL” (MCT/CNPq/FNDCT 50/2010), the collaborative grant “Dimensions US-Biota-São Paulo: Assembly and evolution of the Amazon biota and its environment: an integrated approach”, US NSF, NASA, and FAPESP (2012/50260-6), and from the National Science Foundation (DEB-1256742).
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