Castnius, HUBNER, [1819]

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

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/zoj.12102
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10541670
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B8AE55-FFFB-FFE7-6B95-FB9583CEA3A0
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Castnius
status

Treatment

CASTNIUS HÜBNER, [1819] ( FIGS 5, 6)

Type species

Papilio pelasgus Cramer, [1779]

Included species

Castnius pelasgus (Cramer, [1779]) , Castnius marcus ( Jordan, 1908) , and C. asteropoides Porion, 2004 .

Comments

Two synapomorphic characters, the sacculus as an anterior projection (47: 1) and rectangular (48: 3), plus the homoplastic characters related to wing venation and morphology of the aedeagus and valva, support the arrangement of this genus. We must note, however, that C. asteropoides was not included in the analysis.