Ceretes, SCHAUFUSS, 1870

Moraes, Simeão De Souza & Duarte, Marcelo, 2014, Phylogeny of Neotropical Castniinae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Castniidae): testing the hypothesis of the mimics as a monophyletic group and implications for the arrangement of the genera, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170 (2), pp. 362-399 : 391

CERETES SCHAUFUSS, 1870 ( FIG. 1)

Type species

Papilio thais Drury, 1782

Included species

Ceretes thais (Drury, 1782) and Ceretes marcelserres (Godart, [1824]) .

Comments

The species included in this genus are the only Neotropical species to show extensive sexual dimor- phism in the wing and colour pattern (12: 0). Also the cornuti, consisting of spines covering the entire vesica (40: 0), is another synapomorphic character. This genus shares some plesiomorphic attributes with the Australian species, particularly the curvature of the aedeagus.