The last subgenus added to
Herein, we establish a Neotype for the species, provide illustrations, and extend the distributional range of the taxon to Brazil.
The studied material was derived from a loan from the Museu Paranaense Emílio Goeldi (MPEG), Belém, Pará, Brazil. Besides MPEG, two specimens will be deposited in different collections, as designated in text: Entomological Museum of Utah State University (EMUS), Logan, Utah, USA; Instituto de Ciencias Naturales-Museo de Historia Naturales (UNCB), Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.
Abbreviations used in the descriptions are the same as those used by Fernández [
Collection locality of the specimens was obtained from the literature (holotype) and from the specimen labels (new records). These data were used to obtain the geographical coordinates with Google Earth to construct the distribution map with ArcView version 9 software by ESRI [
Subgenus
Neotype of
1 female. Brasil, Pará, Serra Norte, N1-Mata, 28-31.x.1985, Armadilha 1.6 m suspensa, 6°00′25′′S 50°18′32′′W, N. Bittencourt [col.] (MPEG no. HYM 11005855).
This species can be recognized from other
Body length: 7.72; forewing 6.59; maximum wing width 1.80. FD: 1.69; MID: 1.18; UID: 0.78; LID: 0.94; TFD: 2.00; OOL: 0.19; POL: 0.08; WC: 0.98; LC: 0.47; WA3 0.33X LA3.
Brasil, Pará, Serra Norte, Serraria, 20-23.vi.1986, armadilha 1.6 m suspensa, 5°58′37′′S 50°19′43′′W, J. Dias [col.] (MPEG no. HYM 11006147: deposited in UNCB);
Brasil, Pará, Juruti, Beneficiamento, Malaise 4, 15-25.vi.2009, 2°31′29′′S 56°11′13′′W (MPGE);
Brasil, Amazonas, Marãa, R. Japurá, Maguari, 11-17.x.1988, Armadilha 1.6 m suspensa, 1°49′28′′S 65°21′28′′W, J. Dias [col.] (MPGE # HYM 11090903: deposited in EMUS).
The Neotype (Figures
The frontal processes (Figure
Unfortunately, the Neotropical fauna of
This study represents the first record of
Distributional map of
Finally, the designation of a neotype and the record of new specimens are significant to the taxonomy of
The authors are thankful to W. Hanson for funding the first author’s trip to visit several Brazilian collections in 2010, Orlando T. Silveira (MPEG) for loaning valuable specimens, Celso O. Azevedo (UFES) and Rodrigo B. Ferreira for support offered during the trip and helping with ArcGIS, Fernando Fernández for sharing personal information, and Kevin Williams for helping sorting the specimens. This work was supported by the National Science Foundation award DEB-0743763 to JPP and CVDvD, and by the Utah Agricultural Experiment Station, Utah State UAES no. 8395.