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03A287E58650FFB2FF2F3F25FCDA4DF2.text	03A287E58650FFB2FF2F3F25FCDA4DF2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Neoxeniades (Neoxeniades) borborema A. D. Medeiros, A. M. Medeiros & Kerpel 2025	<div><p>Neoxeniades (Neoxeniades) borborema A. D. Medeiros, A. M. Medeiros &amp; Kerpel sp. nov.</p><p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: C1FEA49A-BFF1-4340-9A65-FEB987023391</p><p>Figs. 1–16</p><p>Diagnosis: Neoxeniades (Neoxeniades) borborema sp. nov. can be easily distinguished from its congeners by the ventral hind wing, which has a continuous and uniformly narrow oblique band extending from the costal margin to the upper half of the CuA 1 –CuA 2, where it bends toward the outer margin (Figs 2, 4); the non-overlapping discal spots on the forewing discal area (Figs 1–4); and the olivaceous appearance on the thorax, head, and ventral foreand hind wing (Figs 1–4).</p><p>Description: MALE (Figs 1–2, 5–6, 7–14). Ground color dark brown. Forewing length 18–20 mm (n = 2). HEAD: dorsally olive-green, except for the brown frons; gena and area behind eyes light yellow. Antenna nearly as long as costal cell, plain brown, narrowly white ventrally beneath the club and at the base of shaft segments; nudum with 18 segments. Labial palpus somewhat flattened laterally, light yellow, with a faint olive-green hue toward apex; third segment cylindrical, black, slightly protrudes beyond clothing of second.</p><p>THORAX: densely covered with olive green scales. Legs ventrally greyish; all tibiae without spines; mid and hind tibiae each with a pair of distal spurs. Dorsal forewing (Fig. 1): costal area and basal half of discal cell yellow greenish. Basal area from discal cell to inner margin with elongate yellow scales. Three small semihyaline subapical yellow spots between R 3 and M 1; the anterior two spots square, subequal, contiguous; the posterior opaque, reduced, distally displaced. Three large white to yellowish semihyaline discal spots: in discal cell, rectangular, longer than wide, not overlapping other spots, outer margin excavated; in M 3 –CuA 1, the smallest, nearly square, inner and outer edges sinuous; in CuA 1 –CuA 2, the largest, square, with sinuous outer and convex inner edges. An opaque, nearly rectangular, yellow spot in the lower half of Cu 2 –2A. Stigma consisting of three elongated black parts: two shorter ones, beneath and above the proximal portion of CuA 1; one longer, above CuA 2, extending distally to the yellow spot in Cu 2 –2A (Figs 5–6). Marginal line slightly darker than the ground color. Fringe grayish brown, except for the whitish tornus. Dorsal hind wing (Fig 1): costal margin whitish. Basal half from cell to inner margin with elongate yellow scales. Four opaque yellow spots: one rounded, at distal end of discal cell, and three elongate between M 1 and CuA 1, the anterior partially displaced distally. Marginal line and fringe as on dorsal forewing. Ventral forewing (Fig. 2): ground color darker within and around the discal cell. Costal area and apex, from Sc to CuA 2, olive green. Spots mirror dorsal forewing, except for being absent in R 5 –M 1, and for the paler and more diffuse appearance of the spot in the lower part of Cu 2 –2A. Ventral hind wing (Fig. 2): mostly olive green, except for a brown, somewhat triangular area, from base to tornus, between the lower half of CuA 1 –CuA 2 and 2A. A continuous, uniformly narrow oblique white band, from costa to the upper half of CuA 1 –CuA 2, where it bends toward the outer margin.</p><p>ABDOMEN: dorsally brown, ventrally grayish; distal tip with a conspicuous dorsal tuft of elongate brown scale. Genitalia (Fig. 7–14): tegumen broad, distally with a median triangular projection (Fig. 8). Saccus shorter than tegumen (Fig. 10). Fenestra V-shaped (Fig. 8). Uncus bifid, densely covered by long hairs (Figs 7–8); base with two rounded lobes, medially separated by the fenestra (Fig. 8); median portion with a pair of laterally compressed protuberance, dome-shaped in lateral view (Fig. 7). Gnathos wider and slightly longer than uncus; arms converging toward the pointed apex (Fig. 9). Valva rectangular, approximately two times longer than wide; costa short, triangular; Ampulla triangular; harpe ventrally rounded, dorsal edge dentate and medially sloped in dorsal view (Figs 11–12). Aedeagus slightly longer than valva, distally bifid and with two small, triangular teeth-like projection, right and left near distal end (Fig. 13); coecum rounded, barely curved upwards (Fig. 14). Fultura inferior sclerotized, proximally narrow and bifid. Manica with a conspicuous sclerotized plate, densely ornamented with minute spines (Figs 13– 14).</p><p>FEMALE (Figs 3–4, 15–16). Ground color dark brown. Forewing length 23–24 mm (n = 4). Differs from male by larger size, more rounded fore- and hind wing, and the following aspects of the forewing: spots more developed and relatively paler; spot in R 5 –M 1 repeated on ventral surface; and an additional spot in the upper half of Cu 2 –2A, which may be interpreted as a projection of the distal upper corner of the lower spot (Figs 3–4). Allotype with an additional spot in CuA 2 –2A on dorsal hind wing, absent in paratypes. Genitalia (Figs 15–16). Tergum VIII longer than wide, weakly sclerotized, with the ventral margin deeply excavated. Sterigma irregular. Lamella antevaginalis sclerotized; anterior margin V-shaped, with two lateral corrugated plates that merge ventrally with the intersegmental membrane of the seventh externite; between these plates and the ostium opening, there is a pair of lateral folds extending distally and ending in narrow, sinuous projections, giving the sterigma a calyx-like appearance. Lamella postvaginalis membranous, ill-defined; distal margin with a median tubular projection. Ostium located in the basal half of the sterigma. Bursa copulatrix nearly four times longer than the sterigma; ductus bursae membranous, except for small sclerotized plates near its insertion with sterigma. Papilla anal wider than long, with the dorsal half narrowed.</p><p>Distribution. Species known only from the type locality, a transition area between the Caatinga and Atlantic Forest biomes, located in the Brazilian semiarid region, in Paraíba state, at an altitude of approximately 420 m.</p><p>Etymology. Neoxeniades (Neoxeniades) borborema sp. nov. is named after the newly created, but not yet established, Parque Natural Municipal da Serra da Borborema, a protected area in the Borborema Plateau region, Paraíba, Brazil. The term is a feminine noun in apposition.</p><p>Type material. holotype male deposited in CLEIIC with the following labels (each separated by a slash): / HOLOTYPUS / Brasil, PB[Paraíba], Campina Grande, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-35.83501&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-7.2284446" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -35.83501/lat -7.2284446)">Parque Estadual do Poeta</a> [e <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-35.83501&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-7.2284446" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -35.83501/lat -7.2284446)">Repentista Juvenal de Oliveira</a>], 14-VI-2024, 7°13’42.40’’S - 35°50’06.04’’O, A.M. Medeiros, Andrade &amp; Martins leg. / CLEIIC 06574 / Neoxeniades (Neoxeniades) borborema A. D. Medeiros, A. M. Medeiros &amp; Kerpel det. 2025 /.</p><p>Allotype female deposited in CLEIIC with the following labels (each separated by a slash): / ALLOTYPUS / Brasil, PB[Paraíba], Campina Grande, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-35.83501&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-7.2284446" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -35.83501/lat -7.2284446)">Parque Estadual do Poeta</a>, [e <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-35.83501&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=-7.2284446" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -35.83501/lat -7.2284446)">Repentista Juvenal de Oliveira</a>] 15-VI-2024, 7°13’42.40’’S - 35°50’06.04’’O, A.M. Medeiros, Andrade &amp; Martins leg. / CLEIIC 06517 / Neoxeniades (Neoxeniades) borborema A. D. Medeiros, A. M. Medeiros &amp; Kerpel det. 2025 /.</p><p>Paratypes (1 male and 3 females): same locality of the holotype and allotype, 1 male, 19.VII.2024, 1 female, 16.VIII.2024, 1 female, 14.VI.2024, 1 female, 15.VI.2024, A.M. Medeiros, Andrade &amp; Martins leg., DZ 73.070, DZ 73.069 (DZUP), CLEIIC 06511, CLEIIC 06376 (CLEIIC)</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A287E58650FFB2FF2F3F25FCDA4DF2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Medeiros, Adalberto Dantas De;Suênia-Bastos, Ayane;Martins, Ana Beatriz Da Silva;Medeiros, Arthur Morais De;Gualberto, Emanoel Pereira;Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik;Kerpel, Solange Maria	Medeiros, Adalberto Dantas De, Suênia-Bastos, Ayane, Martins, Ana Beatriz Da Silva, Medeiros, Arthur Morais De, Gualberto, Emanoel Pereira, Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik, Kerpel, Solange Maria (2025): A new species of Neoxeniades Hayward, 1938 subgenus Neoxeniades Hayward, 1938 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from the semi-arid region of the Brazilian Northeast: threatened biodiversity in a recently declassified protected area. Zootaxa 5665 (4): 571-576, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5665.4.5, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5665.4.5
