Ginungagapus brasilia Carneiro, Mielke & Casagrande

Carneiro, Eduardo, Mielke, Olaf H. H. & Casagrande, M. M., 2015, The Neotropical genus Ginungagapus gen. nov. (Hesperiidae, Hesperiinae, Moncini): phylogenetic position and taxonomic review, Zootaxa 3931 (2), pp. 196-220 : 210

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.2.2

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5663599

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A863C420-FF83-FF9A-FF60-FEE2FADE470F

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scientific name

Ginungagapus brasilia Carneiro, Mielke & Casagrande
status

sp. nov.

Ginungagapus brasilia Carneiro, Mielke & Casagrande sp. nov.

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Diagnosis. VHW central and discal areas bluish, as in G. schmithi comb. nov. and G. ranesus comb. nov., but limited between well marked bands and not fainted or hidden by other coloring markings as in these species. Bluish area is distinctly smoked and not well delimited as in G. rogan comb. nov., which also lack marked discal area and presents a unique reddish cellular spot. The female genitalia present a unique lateral expansion of the lamella postvaginalis in a ventral wide shell shape, this connected centrally by a thick fold of the anterior margin of the sterigma. In addition, the posterior margin of sterigma has lateral reduced pointed projections separated by a straight margin. Posterior margin of G. ranesus comb. nov. is also straight, but does not present lateral reduced projections.

Description. Forewing length: 13 mm. Nudum 12; palpus ventrally whitish. VHW with purple and ferruginous markings; costal area red ferruginous, from base to Sc end; subapical spots narrow, bluish; central and discal areas delimited between well marked bands, bluish. Male genitalia unknown. Female genitalia: lateral expansion of lamella postvaginalis in a ventral wide shell shape, connected centrally by a thick fold of the anterior margin of the sterigma; posterior margin of sterigma straight with lateral reduced pointed projections separated by a straight margin. Ductus bursae lightly sclerotized from the sterigma to the fold, with sclerotized grooves within; corpus bursae with lateral thin signa.

Geographical distribution and phenology. known only from Brasilia . BRAZIL: Distrito Federal, Brasília (III).

Examined material. Holotype female with the following labels:/ HOLOTYPUS / BRASIL Brasilia D.[istrito] F.[ederal] F[emale,] Parque Nacional [de Brasília ] D. Gifford [leg.] 31.III.1977 / GEN. PREP. E. CARNEIRO 2014/ DZ 31.273 [ DZUP]. Total: DZUP (1).

Discussion. Known from a single female from Brasilia . Wing color pattern markedly similar to those of G. ranesus comb. nov. and G. rogan comb. nov. It is unlikely that G. brasilia sp. nov. is the actually the female of G. rogan comb. nov., given the distinct VHW pattern and wide distance between both distribution records.

Etymology. This species is named after the type locality, the only place known of its occurrence.

DZUP

Universidade Federal do Parana, Colecao de Entomologia Pe. Jesus Santiago Moure

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Hesperiidae

Genus

Ginungagapus

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