Cibyra parana, Mielke & Grehan & Koike, 2025

Mielke, Carlos G. C., Grehan, John R. & Koike, Ricardo M., 2025, Review of the genus Cibyra Walker (Lepidoptera: Hepialoidea: Hepialidae) with descriptions of twenty-four new species from Brazil and Argentina, Zootaxa 5709 (1), pp. 1-74 : 44-45

Cibyra parana sp. nov.

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Pl. 9: Figs 6–8 , Pl. 12: Fig. 8 , Pl. 18: Fig. 3 , Pl. 22: Fig. 3

Type material. Holotype ♂ (Pl. 9: Fig. 6 ): / BRAZIL — São Paulo (SP) , Santo André, Vila (30) Paranapiacaba, 1100 m, 14.XI.2020. R. Koike leg./ DZ 52.618/ HOLOTYPUS, Cibyra parana C. Mielke, Grehan & Koike, 2024 / ( DZUP).

Paratypes (in total 2 ♂, 1 ♀): Brazil. São Paulo. Same locality and collector as holotype: 1 ♂, 23.XI.2021 ( CGCM 43.192 ; DZUP); 1 ♀, 1 ♂, 29.XI.2021 ( CGCM 43.561, 43.989; DZUP) .

Diagnosis. Easily recognized by the male and female mottled FW with the contrasting postdiscal band, along with two or three pale beige costal spots on its distal half, and by the male genital apparatus being twice the size of the two previous species. In addition, the digitiform process of tergal lobes (Pl. 18: Fig. 3 ; see arrow) is diagnostic.

Description. Male (Pl. 9: Figs 6, 8 , Pl. 12: Fig. 8 ). Forewing length: 15–19 mm, wingspan: 30–39 mm. Epiphysis present.

Male genitalia (Pl. 18: Fig. 3 , Pl. 22: Fig. 3 ). Tergal lobes slightly sclerotised, with a digitiform process postero-mesally on each side. Posterior edge of outer wall of saccus straight, inner wall simple posteriorly. Tegumen slightly sinuate. Fultura inferior 1.2× longer than wide, basal margin slightly longer than distal margin, apically bilobed.

Female (Pl. 9: Fig. 7 ). Forewing length: 24 mm, wingspan: 47 mm. Epiphysis present.

Female genitalia. Not dissected.

Distribution. Known only from one site in the Parque Natural Municipal Nascentes de Paranapiacaba placed in Serra do Mar in São Paulo state, southeastern Brazil, at an altitude of 1100 m (Pl. 29: Fig. 1 ).

Etymology. Named after its type locality, Paranapiacaba, using the first three syllables. It is treated as a noun in the nominative singular in apposition, feminine.

Remarks. This new species shows little variation, as almost all known males have a FW ornamentation the same as the HT (Pl. 9: Fig. 6 ). All records are from November, and the species is sympatric and synchronic with C. piacaba sp. nov. only.

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PLATE 1. FIGURES 1−12. Cibyra spp. of ferruginosa species-group. Adults (dorsal): 1 (CGCM 33.377), 2 (CGCM 35.939), 3 (type no. 18604), 4 (CGCM 10.168), 5 (CGCM 27.547), 6 (CGCM 26.691), 7 (CGCM 23.321), 8 (CGCM 30.335), 9 (CGCM 30.343), 10 (CGCM 23.937), 11 (CGCM 42.000), 12 (CGCM 29.967). Depositories of the specimens: 1–2, 4–12 in CGCM; 3 in USNM.