Lyces ariaca (Druce) Miller, James S, 2009

Miller, James S, 2009, Generic Revision Of The Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 2: Josiini, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2009 (321), pp. 675-1022 : 766

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1206/321.1-1

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Lyces ariaca (Druce)
status

comb. nov.

Lyces ariaca (Druce) View in CoL , new combination Figure 320H View Fig , 321A–E View Fig ; plate 29 [EX]

Ephialtias ariaca Druce, 1885a: 147 View in CoL , pl. 13, fig. 27. TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Yucatan, Valladolid. TYPE: Syntype ♀, leg. Gaumer (BMNH).

Ephialtias coatepeca Schaus, 1889: 192 View in CoL . New synonymy.

TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico, Coatepec, Paso de San Juan.

TYPE: Syntype ³/ ♀ ( USNM type no. 18706).

DISCUSSION: Lyces ariaca appears to be widely distributed throughout the northern countries of Central America. As occurs in L. angulosa (fig. 322A) and L. constricta , the uncus of L. ariaca bears a dorsal process (fig. 321A), in this species more spatulate than bladelike. Precisely the same spatulate process occurs in L. ena and L. banana . The taxon most similar in size and wing pattern to ariaca is L. latistriga Hering (pl. 29), from Peru, so far known exclusively from the ZMH type. Its relationship to L. ariaca is unknown.

There is no question regarding this moth’s identity. Schaus (1889: 192), in his original description of Ephialtias coatepeca , noted that it is ‘‘Closely allied to Ephialtias ariaca Druce’’. My examination of the L. coatepeca type material shows Schaus’ taxon to be a newly recognized synonym of L. ariaca ; no characters distinguish the two.

DISTRIBUTION: Mexico (AMNH, BMNH, FNHM, LACM, MNHN, UCB, USNM, ZMH); Honduras (BMNH, USNM); Belize (AMNH); Guatemala (BMNH, CMNH, USNM).

DISSECTED: ³, Mexico, Veracruz, Atoyac , BMNH (genitalia slide no. JSM-315 ) ; ♀, Mexico, Veracruz, Jalapa , BMNH (genitalia slide no. JSM-316 ) .

USNM

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Notodontidae

Genus

Lyces

Loc

Lyces ariaca (Druce)

Miller, James S 2009
2009
Loc

Ephialtias coatepeca

Schaus, W. 1889: 192
1889
Loc

Ephialtias ariaca

Druce, H. 1885: 147
1885
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