Estola vittulata Bates, 1874

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Estola vittulata Bates, 1874

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Estola vittulata Bates 1874: 226 ; 1880: 118; Lameere 1883: 58 (cat.); Bates 1885: 356; Lameere 1893: 277 (distr.); Aurivillius 1922: 320 (cat.); Blackwelder 1946: 601 (checklist); Breuning 1974: 107; Chemsak et al. 1992: 119 (checklist); Monné 1994: 50 (cat.); Monné and Giesbert 1994: 220 (checklist); Maes et al. 1994: 37 (distr.); Noguera and Chemsak 1996: 405 (cat.); Maes 1998: 915 (distr.); Martínez 2000: 98 (distr.); Turnbow et al. 2003: 26 (distr.); Monné 2005b: 402 (cat.); Hovore 2006: 376 (distr.); Swift et al. 2010: 55 (distr.); Maes et al. 2010: 156 (distr.); Audureau and Roguet 2018: 82 (distr.); Bezark and Tyson 2020: 29 (distr.); Monné 2021b: 598 (cat.).

Estola vittulata was described based on syntypes from Nicaragua. Currently, it is known from Mexico (Veracruz), Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela and Colombia ( Monné 2021b, Tavakilian and Chevillotte 2020). Bates (1880) provided some new country records for the species: “ Hab. GUATE- MALA, Tocoy, Vera Paz (Champion); BRISTH HONDURAS, Belize (Blancaneaux).” Curiously, Aurivillius incorrectly recorded the species from Honduras and was followed by subsequent authors. However, British Honduras is not Honduras, currently it is Belize. The first formal record of E. vittulata in Honduras is by Turnbow et al. (2003). Breuning (1974) also reported the species from Brazil (Pernambuco), a record not present in Monné (2021b); Bezark and Tyson (2020) recorded this species from Ecuador, but the record is also not present in Monné (2021b). It is possible that E. vittulata sensu Bezark and Tyson (2020) (see photograph in Bezark 2021) belongs to a different species close to the true E. vittulata .

Material examined. PANAMA, BOCAS DEL TORO: 16 km W Chiriqui Grande , 3 males, 2 females, 21–22. II.1999, J.E. Wappes (1 male, 1 female, MZSP; 2 males, 1 female, FSCA, formerly ACMT) .

Figures

Figures 17–21. Psyrassaforma and Estola spp. 17–18) Psyrassaforma janzeni Chemsak, 1991, female. 17) Dorsal habitus. 18) Ventral habitus. 19–20) Estola vittulata Bates, 1874. 19) Dorsal habitus. 20) Ventral habitus. 21) Estola flavobasalis Breuning, 1940, dorsal habitus.