Opoptera syme

Penz, Carla M., 2009, The phylogeny of Opoptera butterflies, and an assessment of the systematic position of O. staudingeri (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae), Zootaxa 1985, pp. 1-20 : 9

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.185409

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6221762

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scientific name

Opoptera syme
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The name of this group is maintained from the original classification by Stichel (1902). Opoptera syme (typespecies of the genus), O. sulcius and O. fruhstorferi form a monophyletic group supported by the following unambiguous character changes ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 C): presence of a thin hairpencil inside HW discal cell (character 12:1, also present in O. bracteolata ; Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 I); mid- and hindlegs, color of the distal edge of each segment and subsegment similar to the color of the segments themselves (17:0, unique); setose portion of valva tip flattened, palmate (26:1, unique; Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 A).

Male genitalia are very similar within the syme-group. All species have long, narrow valvae that extend nearly to, or beyond the uncus tip in lateral view ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 A–C). Opoptera syme and O. sulcius share the presence of a spine-like expansion on the proximal region of the gnathos (30:1, Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 A), and the palmate valva tip is more strongly projected ventrally in lateral view than in O. fruhstorferi (27:0; Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 A–C). Although O. sulcius and O. fruhstorferi share a broad proximal arm of the FW postmedial band, the grouping of these two species as sister taxa increases tree length by one step.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nymphalidae

Genus

Opoptera

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