Scea cleonica Druce, 1885
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Scea cleonica Druce View in CoL Figure 350 View Fig ; plate 34
Scea cleonica Druce, 1885b: 525 View in CoL , pl. 32, fig. 13. TYPE LOCALITY: Ecuador, Chiguinda. TYPE: Syntype ³, leg. C. Buckley
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DISCUSSION: Scea cleonica is endemic to southern Ecuador. Almost all museum specimens were collected in the vicinity of Loja, with a few (SMNS, USNM) from nearby Zamora (see fig. 5). The moth occurs at relatively high altitudes; two individuals (JSM-1722, 1723) were collected at La Palma, at an elevation of 2850 meters. The type locality for S. cleonica, Chiguinda , is in Morona-Santiago province on the Amazonian side of the Andes. I argue in the discussion of S. curvilimes (below), whose wings are extremely similar to S. cleonica , that the two are sister species, occurring in cloud forests on opposite sides of the Andes.
An AMNH female from Santa Catarina, Brazil (leg. Anton Maller, December 1944) is lighter gray in the FW distal third, and probably represents a species distinct from either S. cleonica or S. curvilimes . It was not dissected.
DISTRIBUTION: Ecuador (AMNH, BMNH, MNHN, OUMNH, USNM, ZMH).
DISSECTED: ³, Ecuador, Loja, La Palma , 2850 m, 8 Aug 1993, leg. C. Young, E. Tapia & G. Onore, AMNH (genitalia slide no. JSM-1722 ) ; ♀, Ecuador, Loja, La Palma , 2850 m, 10 Aug 1993, leg. E. Tapia, AMNH (genitalia slide no. JSM-1723 ) .
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Scea cleonica Druce
Miller, James S 2009 |
Scea cleonica
Druce, H. 1885: 525 |