Muschampia alta, (Schwingenschuss, 1942)
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https://doi.org/ 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa171 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5750638 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FB87BB-AC3B-7A19-FF5A-76E8FD70596B |
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Plazi |
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Muschampia alta |
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MUSCHAMPIA ALTA (SCHWINGENSCHUSS, 1942) COMB. & STAT. NOV.
Type locality: Taormina, Sicily, Italy.
Original reference: Schwingenschuss L. 1942. Eine Falterausbeute aus Sizilien. I. Teil. Macrolepidoptera. Zeitschrift des Wiener Entomologen-vereines 27: 177–184.
Original name: Hesperia proto alta View in CoL .
Monophyletic in the phylogenies based on nuclear and mitochondrial markers, which show that this taxon is sister to M. proteides . Minimum uncorrected p -distances are 2.55% (ITS2) and 3.79% (COI) with respect to M. proto and 2.87% (ITS2) and 2.08% (COI) with respect to M. proteides . It can be distinguished from M. proteides by the long gnathos. Morphometrics of the male genitalia highlights differences in the cucullus with respect to M. proto and M. proteides , in particular a smaller dorsal process of the cucullus. No diagnostic traits in the wings to distinguish it from M. proto and M. proteides were observed, although no morphometric analyses were performed.
Distribution: Sicily, southern Italian Peninsula and Balkan Peninsula. It is probable that the species is also present in the western Aegean Islands.
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