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Issue: Vol. 4392 No. 1: 8 Mar. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4392.1.11
Page range: 196–200
Abstract views: 204
PDF downloaded: 42

A new species of Wahydra from Ecuador (Hesperiidae, Hesperiinae, Anthoptini)

Laboratório de Estudos em Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná. P.O. Box 19020, 81531-980 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Laboratório de Estudos em Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná. P.O. Box 19020, 81531-980 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Departments of Biophysics and Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-9050, USA
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, 3215 Hull Road, UF Cultural Plaza, P.O. Box 112710, Gainesville, FL 32611-2710, USA
Lepidoptera Andean biodiversity male genitalia skipper taxonomy

Abstract

Recent taxonomic studies on the genus Wahydra Steinhauser, 1991, have described five new species in the past two years, from high elevations in the Andes Mountains. A markedly distinct species of Wahydra is herein described and illustrated based on a single male specimen from Ecuadorian Andes, Wahydra graslieae A. Warren, Carneiro & Dolibaina, sp. nov. The new species is compared with other species of Wahydra, as well as with the somewhat similar species Lerema viridis (Bell, 1942) and Tigasis viridenex (Weeks, 1901).

 

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