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Issue: Vol. 3941 No. 2: 31 Mar. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-03-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3941.2.4
Page range: 239–246
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of Cogia from Oaxaca, Mexico (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Eudaminae)

McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, SW 34th Street and Hull Road, P. O. Box 112710, Gainesville, Florida 32611-2710 U.S.A.
Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil.
Museo de Zoología (Entomología), Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo. Postal 70–399, México, D.F. 04510, México.
aventinus cloud forest endemic Guatemala mala

Abstract

A new species of Cogia A. Butler, 1870, is described from two localities ranging from 1470 to 2000 m elevation in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico; it occurs in cloud forest habitats and appears to be endemic to Mexico. Cogia buena, n. sp., is closely related to C. mala Evans, 1953 and C. aventinus (Godman & Salvin, 1894); these three species are the only known Cogia taxa whose males lack a hair tuft on the dorsal hindwing, and all have similar genitalia.