Gymnetis bouvieri Bourgoin, 1912

Figs. 30–31 (aspects), 38 (parameres), 42 (distribution)

Gymnetis flavomarginata, not Blanchard, [1842]: Burmeister 1866, in part: 576 (distribution (Ca; SE)); Bruch 1911a: 214 (distribution); Hayward 1942: 14 (natural history); Burmeister 1943: 171 (distribution); Martínez 1948: 3 (distinct species); Hayward 1960: 24 (natural history): misidentifications.

Gymnetis bouvieri Bourgoin, 1912: 127–128 (description; distribution); Bruch 1915: 546 (distribution); Schenkling 1921: 91 (catalog; distribution; references); Antoine 2001: 122–123 (lectotype), 124 (photos 2–3), 127 (Figs. 10–11); Ratcliffe 2004: 6 (lectotype), 16 (Fig. 12).

Paragymnetis flavomarginata Blanch. subsp. bouvieri Bourg.: Schürhoff 1937: 67 (distribution); Blackwelder 1944: 263 (distribution).

Gymnetis flavomarginata ssp. bouvieri Bourgoin, 1912: Krajčík 1998: 77 (catalog; distribution).

Distribution: ARGENTINA (Schürhoff 1937; Blackwelder 1944): Catamarca: near the city (Burmeister 1866); Tucumán (Hayward 1942, 1960); Santiago del Estero: near Santiago del Estero (city), in the way to Tucumán (Burmeister 1861); “ Chaco de Santiago ”, Col. Bourgoin [MNHN] (Bourgoin 1912); “Chaco de Santiago” (Bruch 1915), = Chaco (Blackwelder 1944); “Muséum Paris / Chaco de Santiago del Estero / bord du Rio Salado / Env. d’Icaño / E.R. Wagner 1904”, “Type” [red label, printed], “ Gymnetis / Bouvieri Bourgoin ”, “ Gymnetis / bouvieri / Bourg. / lectotype / B.C. Ratcliffe 1981” [red label], “Lectotype / Gymnetis / bouvieri / Bourgoin / Ph. Antoine des. 2000” [inside a red frame ]; Same locality, 1 male paralectotype [MNHN], 1 male paralectotype [MNHN], 5 males paralectotypes, 2 females paralectotypes [BMNH] (Antoine 2001); Chaco: Pozo La Gringa (Antoine 2001); La Rioja: Chepes (Viana & Williner 1981).

Material examined: ARGENTINA: Salta: Col. Berg, 1 ex. [MLPA]; Dto. Capital, Salta (ciudad), Barrio Ortiz, 23-XI-2009, J. Carreras leg., 1 ex. [JCDT] ; Catamarca: “Cata- / marca” [printed on green paper], 1 ex. [HBBA] (orange spots); C. Bruch, 189_, 1 ex. [CBBA] (orange spots), 7-II-1910, 1 ex. [CBBA] (orange spots), 190_, 1 ex. [CBBA] (orange spots); Catamarca, A. Breyer Collection, 1 male [MACN] (orange spots), “ Gymnetis flavo-mar - / - ginata Blanch.” [handwritten]; [M.P. Gómez leg.], # 30078, 1 ex. [MACN] (orange spots) ; [M.P. Gómez leg.], # 32785, 1 ex. [MACN]; [M.P. Gómez leg.], # 32788, 1 ex. [MACN]; Catamarca, Richter Collection, 3 exx. [MLPA]; Catamarca [city?], I-1929, Bocchio leg., 2 exx. [MACN]; Tucumán: “Col. / [illegible word] / Fessl.”, 1 ex. [MACN]; Santiago del Estero: “Santiag. / d. Est.”, 1 ex. [HBBA], “ flavomargi - / nata Blanch. / Rep. Arg.” [handwritten by Burmeister on white paper, pinned to the bottom of the drawer]; “Prov. Santiago d. Estero / 2. 190 8 / C. Bruch ”, 1 ex. [CBBA], “ Gymnetis / flavomargina - / ta Blnch.” [handwritten by Bruch], 190_, C. Bruch, 2 exx. [CBBA] , 1 ex. [MLPA]; [Santiago del Estero, 7-XI-1928, M.P. Gómez leg.], # 26699, 1 ex. [MACN]; “S. del Estero / Col. Wagner ” [printed], 3 exx. [MLPA]; Río Salado, Wagner leg., G. Pellerano Collection, 3 exx. [MACN] , 2 exx. [ODIC], 2 exx. [MACN], one labeled “ Gymnetis / flavomarginata / Blnch.” [handwritten by Bosq], Bosq Collection, 8 exx. [MLPA] , one labeled “ Gymnetis / flavomarginata / Blnch.” [handwritten by Bosq], other labeled “ Gymnetis / flavomarginata / bouvieri Bourg. / det. B.C. Ratcliffe 2004 ”, Dallas Collection, 2 exx. [MLPA] ; Icaño, E.W. [Emilio Wagner], Dallas Collection, 9 exx. [MLPA]; Icaño, Dallas Collection, 1 ex. [MLPA]; Matará, 12-XII-1939, Birabén & Bezzi leg., 1 ex. [MLPA]; [Santiago del Estero, XI-1929, M.P. Gómez leg.], # 23029, 1 ex. [MACN]; Santiago del Estero, [M.P. Gómez leg.], # 30367, 3 exx. [MACN] ; [M.P. Gómez leg.], # 30455, 1 ex. [MACN]; [M.P. Gómez leg.], # 32535, 1 ex. [MACN]; [M.P. Gómez leg.], # 32767, 1 ex. [MACN]; Santiago del Estero, 1922, 1 ex. [MACN] ; Santiago del Estero, Bosq leg., G. Pellerano Collection, 2 exx. [MACN] ; Santiago del Estero, A. Breyer Collection, 1 ex. [MACN], “ Gymnetis / flavomarginata / Blanch. R.A.A.M. col.” ; Dto. Choya, Laprida, 12-XII-2009, A. Borquez leg., 2 exx. [LABA], P. Loescher leg., 2 exx. [PLVL], 28-XII-2010 / 10-I-2011, 2 exx. [ABJCP]; Monte Quemado, I-2008, A. Borquez leg., 1 ex. [ABJCP]; El Colorado, Laguna El Cisne, 14–15-II-1991, Di Iorio leg., 2 exx. [ODIC], dead in the salar; Chaco: San Bernardo, Di Iorio leg., II-1975, 3 exx. [ODIC], II-1980, 1 ex. [ODIC]; Las Hacheras, II-2007, 1 ex. [EAPW], 25-V-2011, 1 ex. [EAPW]; Corrientes: Richter Collection, 3 exx. [MLPA], one labeled “ Gymnetis / flavomarginatus / Bl. / determ. Moser ” ; La Rioja: [E. Giacomelli leg.], # 11761, 1 ex. [MACN]; [M.P. Gómez leg.], # 32766, 1 ex. [MACN] (orange spots); A. Breyer Collection, 2 exx. [MACN]; Córdoba: Valle Verde, II-1938, G. Pellerano Collection, 1 ex. [MACN]; Santa Fe: Curupaity, 25-I-2011, G. Montero leg., 1 ex. [EAPW]; Without locality: Col. Pellerano, 1 ex. [MACN] (orange spots), “ Gymnetis / tigrina / G. y P.” [handwritten] ; without labels, 1 ex. [MACN] (orange spots); 1 female [MACN] (orange spots), “ Gymnetis / flavomarginata / Blnch. [handwritten by Bruch] / C. Bruch determ. [printed]” ; 1 ex. [MLPA], “1627”, “Tipo” [handwritten on red paper”, “ var. minor / mihi [handwritten by Dallas] / Dallas Collection / Buenos Aires [printed]”.

Dubious record

ARGENTINA: Misiones: A. Breyer Collection, 2 exx. [MACN]; 1 ex. [MACN], labeled “ Gymnetis / flavomarginata / Blanch. R.A.A.M. col.”; 1 ex. [MACN], labeled “ Gymnetis / flavomarginata / Blnch. / Dr. Dallas determ.” .

Male genitalia: parameres (Fig. 38).

Note 1: Burmeister (1861, 1943) mentions that he found “the G. flavormarginata Bl. D’Orb. from Corrientes in Santiago ” (translated from Spanish). This specimen belongs to G. bouvieri .

Note 2: Burmeister (1861, 1943) also mentioned that he found in Catamarca, “other similar (to G. flavomarginata Blanchard, [1842]) but different and smaller” (translated from Spanish). In 1866, Burmeister gave a brief description of this insect as a variety of G. flavomarginata: “a minor variety, instead of the eight big spots of pure yellow color, it has eight small orange spots, which are neither confluent nor prolongued in teeth” (Fig. 30). The male genitalia of one of these specimens is identical to typical G. bouvieri from Santiago del Estero (Fig. 38).

Note 3: Lists of publications by Dallas were given by Pirán (1946, 1954) and De Santis (1992). Apparently Gymnetis pudibunda var. minor was not published. Therefore, the specimen at MLPA is not a type specimen.

Note 4: In two specimens from La Rioja (Breyer Collection), the internal margin of the yellow elytral band is straight and parallel to the elytral margin.

Note 5: Antoine (2001) mentioned six males from Pozo La Gringa (Chaco), comprising 1 ex. of the typical form, 3 exx. with reduced spots on the elytra, and 2 exx. without spots.