A new species of oxynetra from Mexico (Hesperiidae, pyrginae, pyrrhopygini)

Andrew D. Warren, Nick V. Grishin

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Abstract

Oxynetra aureopecta sp. n. is described from the Sierra Madre Oriental of east-central Mexico. Visually similar to Mesoamerican O. hopfferi Staudinger, 1888 in having five orange bands on the abdomen above, it is diagnosed by orange forecoxae and palpi beneath, narrower forewing hyaline bands and a prominent 6% difference in the COI DNA barcode sequence. It is the northernmost representative of the hopfferi species group that also includes O. stangelandi Grishin & Burns, 2013, characterized by a single-banded abdomen and currently known only from the Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica. Both O. hopfferi and O. stangelandi possess white forecoxae and ventral palpi. This new discovery brings the total number of Oxynetra C. & R. Felder, 1862 species to five.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)155-164
Number of pages10
JournalZooKeys
Volume2017
Issue number667
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

Keywords

  • Biodiversity
  • Mimicry
  • Prunus
  • Skipper butterflies

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Animal Science and Zoology

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