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Issue: Vol. 4269 No. 1: 19 May 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-05-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4269.1.6
Page range: 124–132
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Monotypic no longer: a new species of Panca Evans (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae: Moncini) from South America

Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, P.O. Box 19.020, ZIP Code 81.531–980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, P.O. Box 19.020, ZIP Code 81.531–980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, P.O. Box 19.020, ZIP Code 81.531–980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, P.O. Box 19.020, ZIP Code 81.531–980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Apartado 14–0434, Lima–14, Peru.
Bolivia Brazil butterfly natural open environments Peru skipper taxonomy Lepidoptera

Abstract

A new species belonging to the previously monotypic genus Panca Evans, 1955, P. moseri Dolibaina, Carneiro & O. Mielke sp. nov., from grasslands areas of Peru, Bolivia and Brazil is described. Adults and male and female genitalia of the new species are illustrated, described in detail, and compared with the type species of the genus, Lerodea subpunctuli Hayward, 1934, and with its externally most similar and sympatric species, Vidius mictra Evans, 1955. The systematic position of the genus Panca and its association with lowland open natural habitats of South America are discussed.

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