Catasticta uricoecheae

Bollino, Maurizio & Costa, Mauro, 2007, An illustrated annotated check-list of the species of Catasticta (s. l.) Butler (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) of Venezuela, Zootaxa 1469, pp. 1-42 : 16

20 Catasticta uricoecheae (C. & R. Felder, 1861) (TL: Colombia, Muzo)

(fig. 11: g-i; fig. 31)

Catasticta uricoecheae was reported for the first time from Venezuela by Wojtusiak & Rey (1999), when they described the subspecies inopa from Páramo El Tamá , Táchira. This subspecies is confined to a narrow altitudinal range, 2800 to 3100 m., but it is not rare. It is sympatric and synchronic with Catasticta tricolor , but the latter is much rarer. The same uricoecheae subspecies is present also in the Colombian side of El Tamá ( Bollino & Rodríguez, 2004). We illustrate the female of this subspecies for the first time (plate 7: fig. i).

Catasticta uricoecheae can be separated from C. tricolor by its DFW whitish-grey discal markings. The corresponding markings in C. tricolor are yellowish green.