Scea bryki Hering Plate, 1943

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 : 845-846

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

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scientific name

Scea bryki Hering Plate
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Scea bryki Hering Plate View in CoL 35

Scea bryki Hering, 1943: 5 View in CoL .

TYPE LOCALITY: Peru, Vilcanota (Pr. Cuzco), 3000 m.

TYPE: Holotype ♀, leg. O. Garlepp, 1898 ( ZMH).

DISCUSSION: Scea bryki is known from two specimens —the female holotype (pl. 35) and a female in the MUSM collection (Lima, Peru). Although the wing pattern of S. bryki resembles that of S. erasa (pl. 35) in lacking black veins in the orange FW area, the moth is significantly smaller (see species key). Its female genitalia are also fundamentally different from those of S. erasa , indicating that the two may not be particularly close relatives within Scea . The CB of S. bryki is simple and unornamented, bearing an ovoid signum with long internal spines. The CB of S. erasa , on the other hand, exhibits a spectacular series of sclerotized folds at its base, a modified version of the ones found in Scea cleonica (fig. 350E) and others.

This is the last dioptine species Hering described; its description was published nearly 20 years after his contribution to Seitz ( Hering, 1925). It will be important to obtain additional material of S. bryki , especially males, for future study.

DISTRIBUTION: Peru (MUSM, ZMH).

DISSECTED: Holotype ♀ (genitalia slide no. JSM-1766 ).

Scea circumscripta (Hering) , new combination

ZMH

Zoologisches Museum Hamburg

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Notodontidae

Genus

Scea

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Scea bryki Hering Plate

Miller, James S 2009
2009
Loc

Scea bryki Hering, 1943: 5

Hering, E. M. 1943: 5
1943
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