Abstract
A new species of Cicinnus from northern coastal Brazil is described and illustrated: C. litoralis sp. n.. The species is known from five males collected in the mangrove ecoregions of the Brazilian states of Pará and Maranhão (the Pará mangrove and Maranhão mangrove ecoregions respectively). This area of Brazil is poorly sampled for Mimallonidae, and the new species represents the first mimallonid considered endemic to these ecoregions. We also provide a discussion regarding the type species of Cicinnus, C. orthane Blanchard, focusing on populations from the Cerrado and the Atlantic Forest of Brazil.
References
Blanchard, E. (1852) Insectos, Orden VI, Lepidopteros. In: C. Gay (Ed), Historia fiìsica y poliìtica de Chile. Zoologiìa, 7. The author, Paris, pp. 1–112.
Blanchard, E. & Brulle, A. (1837) Insectes de l’Ameìrique meìridionale, recueillis par Alcide d’Orbigny. Voyage dans l’Ameìrique meìridionale d’Alcide Dessalines d’Orbigny, 222.
Boisduval (1872) Note sur la tribu des Adeìloceìphalides. Annales de la Socieìteì entomologique de Belgique 15, 79–96.
Dyar, H.G. (1914) Report on the Lepidoptera of the Smithsonian Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47, 139–350.
Herbin, D. & Monzón, J. (2015) Description of four new species of Mimallonidae and four new species of Apatelodidae from the El Mirador Basin in northern Guatemala. Antenor 2, 176–197.
Hornblower, H. (1977) Alcide d’Orbigny’s South American Expedition (1826-1833). Occasional Papers on Mollusks 4, 158–160.
Janzen, D.H. & Hallwachs, W. (2017) Dynamic database for an inventory of the macrocaterpillar fauna, and its food plants and parasitoids, of Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG), northwestern Costa Rica. Available from: http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu
Kristensen, N.P. (2003) 4. Skeleton and muscles: adults. In: N. P. Kristensen (Ed), Band 4: Arthropoda, 2 Hälfte: Insecta, Lepidoptera, Moths and Butterflies, Teilband/Part 36, Vol 2: Morphology, Physiology, and Development. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, pp. 39–131.
Menezes, M.P.M. de, Berger, U. & Mehlig, U. (2008) Mangrove vegetation in Amazonia: a review of studies from the coast of Pará and Maranhão States, north Brazil. Acta Amazonica 38, 403–420.
Shorthouse, D.P. (2010) SimpleMappr, an online tool to produce publication-quality point maps. Available from: https://www.simplemappr.net (accessed 11 April 2020)
St Laurent, R.A. & Kawahara, A.Y. (2019) Reclassification of the sack-bearer moths (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae). ZooKeys 815, 1–114.
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.815.27335
St Laurent, R.A., Mielke, C.G.C. & Giusti, A. (2018) The identity of Cicinnus orthane Blanchard, 1852 (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae), type species of Cicinnus Blanchard, 1852. Zootaxa 4450 (2), 275–285.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4450.2.6
St Laurent, R.A., Mielke, C.G.C., Herbin, D., Dexter, K.M. & Kawahara, A.Y. (2020a) A new target capture phylogeny elucidates the systematics and evolution of wing coupling in sack-bearer moths. Systematic Entomology.
https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12421
St Laurent, R.A., Reeves, L.E. & Kawahara, A.Y. (2020b) Cicinnus chambersi: a new species of sack-bearer moth (Lepidoptera, Mimallonidae, Cicinninae) from southeastern Arizona, USA. ZooKeys 931, 49–71.
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.931.50203
WWF (2020) Mangroves. Terrestrial Ecoregions. Available from: https://www.worldwildlife.org/biomes/mangroves (accessed 3 April 2020)