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Issue: Vol. 5604 No. 2: 13 Mar. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-03-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5604.2.3
Page range: 131-144
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Taxonomic revision of Orphe Godman, 1901 (Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae: Pericharini: Orphina)

Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical; Departamento de Zoologia; Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR); Curitiba; Paraná; Brazil
Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical; Departamento de Zoologia; Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR); Curitiba; Paraná; Brazil
Laboratório de Estudos de Lepidoptera Neotropical; Departamento de Zoologia; Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR); Curitiba; Paraná; Brazil
Lepidoptera Morphology Orphe gerasa Orphe vatinius Phylogeny Systematics

Abstract

Orphe, a small genus with two species, was once included in a polyphyletic group comprised of more than 30 genera. It now shares a common ancestor with six other genera in Pericharini Grishin, 2019: Pseudorphe A. Warren & Dolibaina, 2015; Oz Grishin, 2022; Oenides Mabille, 1904; Lycas Godman, 1901; Orses Godman, 1901; and Perichares Scudder, 1872. Due to these recent modifications in classification, this genus requires a taxonomic revision. Specimens studied in this work revealed that Orphe can be distinguished from other Pericharini by characteristics in the male wings and genitalia of both sexes. Furthermore, lectotypes are designated for Hesperia gerasa Hewitson, 1867, Proteides porius Mabille, 1883, Orphe vatinius Godman, 1901, and Pamphila brooksii Weeks, 1906.

 

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