Mirocastnia Miller, 1980

García-Díaz, José De Jesús, Espinoza-Sanabria, Bernardo A., Worthy, Robert, González, Jorge M., Janzen, Daniel H. & Hallwachs, Winnie, 2024, Synopsis of the Castniidae (Lepidoptera) of Costa Rica, Zootaxa 5481 (2), pp. 151-202 : 167

V. Mirocastnia Miller, 1980

A genus distributed in Central and South America (throughout the Andean region) that includes small species similar to some Hesperiidae , including the tuft of “hairs” at the end of the abdomen (a peculiarity of the subfamily Pyrrhopyginae ); as well as a wing pattern similar to skipper genera such as Autochton Hübner, 1823 , Celaenorrhinus Hübner, [1819] and Paches Godman & Salvin, 1895 ( Miller 1980, 1986; Vinciguerra 2008). Three species were recognized until recently: Mirocastnia canis (Lathy, 1923) , M. pyrrhopygoides (Houlbert, 1917) , and M. smalli Miller, 1980 ( Miller 1980, 1986, 1995; Lamas 1995; Vinciguerra 2008; Moraes & Duarte 2014). Little is known about the ecology of this genus, which is poorly represented in entomological collections. With more specimens available, the taxonomic status, however, has been changed recently and all of the above-mentioned taxa are now considered subspecies of M. pyrrhopygoides ( González et al. 2024) .