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Issue: Vol. 4276 No. 1: 9 Jun. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-06-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4276.1.10
Page range: 139–144
Abstract views: 149
PDF downloaded: 29

Review of the enigmatic genus Boalda with transfer of pulcherrima Köhler from Nephelistis and description of two new species (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA, National Museum of Natural History, E-502, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 168, Washington, DC 20013-7012.
Lepidoptera Noctuidae

Abstract

Schaus (1929: 49) described Boalda gyona in a monobasic genus known only from the holotype taken in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Biezanko et al. (1957) reported the species from Uruguay. A number of specimens of Boalda similar to gyona were collected recently in Paraguay, at least two of which match the anomalous Argentinian taxon Nephelistis pulcherrima Köhler (1947: 77–78). Herein the genus Boalda is reviewed, with one new species described from the Paraguayan samples, and with N. pulcherrima transferred Boalda. A singleton specimen from Parque Nacional Cerro Corá, Dpto. Amambay, Paraguay, is figured but not described as a distinct species because of a lack of additional specimens.

 

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