Stamnodes deceptiva Barnes & McDunnough, 1918

Matson, Tanner A., 2023, A review of Mexican Stamnodes (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) with the description of 16 new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 911, pp. 1-79 : 20-21

Stamnodes deceptiva Barnes & McDunnough, 1918

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Stamnodes deceptiva Barnes & McDunnough, 1918: 136 , pl. 23 fig. 1. Type locality: Paradise, Cochise County, Arizona, USA. [USNM].

Stamnodes deceptiva – McDunnough 1938: 151 (checklist). — Ferguson 1983: 103 (checklist). — Poole & Gentili 1996: 686 (checklist). — Scoble 1999: 901 (catalogue). — Knudson & Bordelon 2002: 7. — Scoble & Hausmann 2007 (online catalogue). — Pohl et al. 2016: 449 (checklist). — Matson & Wagner 2020: 79–90. — Rajaei et al. 2022 (online catalogue).

Diagnostic remarks

Stamnodes deceptiva is sometimes confused with S. fervefactaria . It is most easily set apart from the latter by its two, bright orange, transverse medial patches on the hindwing underside that sit inside a cream, transverse medial band.

Distribution

Mexico: Stamnodes deceptiva is primarily a mid-elevation northern Sierra Madre Occidental sky island endemic found in Sonora and Chihuahua. USA: this species is locally common in a few mountainous areas of southeastern Arizona and western New Mexico.

Biology

The life history of this species is unpublished, but caterpillars can be predicted to feed on herbaceous mints from knowledge of related taxa. Adults fly from July to August.

Molecular characterization

This species is represented in BOLD as BIN: BOLD:AAH4920 (n = 16). At present, the average pairwise intraspecific distance is 0.1%, the maximum pairwise intraspecific distance is 0.32%, and the distance to the nearest neighbour, Stamnodes fergusoni (n = 6), is 6.6%.

Figures

Figs 11–18. Adult Stamnodes Guenée, [1858], dorsal (a) and ventral (b) views. 11. S. fergusoni Matson & Wagner, 2020, holotype, ♂ (USNMENT01771260). 12. S. deceptiva Barnes & McDunnough, 1918 (USNMENT01771261). 13. S. fervefactaria (Grote, 1881) (USNMENT01771262). 14. S. disrupta sp. nov., holotype (BMEC). 15. S. mariachi sp. nov., holotype, ♀ (EMEC174828). 16. S. erupta sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (USNMENT01771245). 17. S. ceniza sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (LEP190410CNIN). 18. S. proana (Druce, 1893), holotype (NHMUK). Scale bar = 1 cm.

Fig. 94. COI neighbour-joining tree for Mexican Stamnodes Guenée, [1858] using default Kimura-2P model in the Barcode of Life Project (BOLD). Taxon names followed by BOLD Process ID.

Fig. 95. Biogeographic associations of Mexican Stamnodes Guenée, [1858]. (*) denotes species found in two or more provinces. Underlying biogeographic provincial map taken from Morrone (2020: fig. 4.5) with permission to reproduce this figure granted by author Juan J. Morrone.