Insecta, Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae, Arcas ducalis (Westwood, 1852): first record from Uruguay

By

Bentancur, María Gabriela
Guerrero, José Carlos
Morelli, Enrique Regino

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015-9-9

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

11

Series / Issue

Issue: 5

Pages

1733--3

Subjects

first record , Lepidoptera , Lycaenidae , Uruguay

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/11.5.1733

 

Abstract

This note documents the first record of Arcas ducalis (Westwood, 1852) in Uruguay and provides an updated geographic distributional map of the species, extending its known range by over 200 km. This is also the first record in latitudes south of municipality of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil, and also the first time the species is recorded in a Forest remnant of a temperate grassland biome.