A new species of Oxynetra from Mexico (Hesperiidae, Pyrginae, Pyrrhopygini)

By

Warren, Andrew D.
Grishin, Nick

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

667

Pages

155-164

Subjects

biodiversidad , Biodiversity , mariposa hesperido , Mimetismo , mimicry , Prunus , skipper butterflies

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.667.6080

 

Abstract

Oxynetra aureopecta sp. n. is described from the Sierra Madre Oriental of east-central Mexico. Visually similar to Mesoamerican O. hopfferi Staudinger, 1888 in having five orange bands on the abdomen above, it is diagnosed by orange forecoxae and palpi beneath, narrower forewing hyaline bands and a prominent 6% difference in the COI DNA barcode sequence. It is the northernmost representative of the hopfferi species group that also includes O. stangelandi Grishin & Burns, 2013, characterized by a single-banded abdomen and currently known only from the Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica. Both O. hopfferi and O. stangelandi possess white forecoxae and ventral palpi. This new discovery brings the total number of Oxynetra C. & R. Felder, 1862 species to five.