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Issue: Vol. 4299 No. 2: 27 Jul. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-07-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4299.2.9
Page range: 285–290
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Comparative morphology and description of male of Dysschema amapoarum Moraes & Duarte, 2015 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Arctiinae)

Departamento de Biologia Animal, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Av. Bertrand Russel s/n, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Nazaré, 481, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Lepidoptera sexual dimorphism tiger moths Pericopina

Abstract

The previously unknown male of Dysschema amapoarum Moraes & Duarte, 2015 from the Atlantic Rainforest of southeast Brazil is here described, with illustrations of the adult and genitalia. We also compare the habitus and morphology of D. amapoarum with three closely related species, in order to shed light on the taxonomic identity of this species.

 

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