An illustrated annotated check-list of the species of Catasticta (s. l.) Butler (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) of Venezuela
Author
Bollino, Maurizio
Author
Costa, Mauro
text
Zootaxa
2007
1469
1
42
journal article
49719
10.5281/zenodo.176651
c693fa7b-b09f-407d-80c3-c870485429ae
1175-5326
176651
Catasticta chrysolopha beatrizae
ssp. nov.
Holotype
: male, Vía Sanare – Caspo,
1900 m
., Edo. Lara,
Venezuela
,
15-II-2004
, Col. Juan C.
De
Sousa C., presently in
DSBV
, will be deposited in
MIZA
(fig. 9: g-h)
Description: FW length:
22 mm
.
Dorsal surface: black ground color. FW discal band with four spots: the anal one whitish with dark suffusion, those in cells CuA1-CuA2 and CuA2-2A whitish with strong orange suffusion, that in cell M3-CuA1 faintly marked. Submarginal spots nearly obsolete. HW with discal band as in other subspecies, but costal white spots dashed by dark scales. Submarginal spots nearly obsolete.
Ventral surface: FW with greyish discal band; premarginal series uncomplete, composed by four small spots in cells R3-R4/R5, R4/R5-M1, M1-M2 and M2-M3; submarginal spots small and subtriangular, those in cells R4/R5-M1, M1-M2 and M2-M3 mostly yellow, the remnants greyish. HW the same as in other subspecies, but postdiscal black band heavily marked and large; submarginal portion of cells greyish.
Diagnostic characters: the new subspecies is characterized by its large size and melanistic appearance of both wing surfaces. Orange suffusion of FW discal spots in cells CuA1-CuA2 and CuA2-2A was not observed in long series of other subspecies.
Paratypes
(
6 males
,
1 female
):
2 males
, same data as
holotype
;
1 male
, same data as
holotype
, but
23-I- 2000
, all in
DSBV
;
1 male
, same data as
holotype
, in
MCCV
;
1 male
, same data as
holotype
, in
FRSV
;
1 male
, same data as
holotype
, in
MBLI
;
1 female
, Vía Sanare–Caspo,
1900 m
., Edo. Lara,
Venezuela
,
26-XII-1999
, Col. Andrés M. Orellana, in
AOMV
Distribution: To the best of our knowledge, the new subspecies is restricted to the vicinity of its
type
locality.
Etymology: a noun in the genitive case after Mrs. Beatriz Coelho
De
Sousa, mother of Juan Carlos
De
Sousa who collected most of
type
series.