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Description of three new species of Automeris Hübner, 1819 from Colombia and Brazil (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae, Hemileucinae)
- Source :
- ZooKeys 1031: 183-204, ZooKeys, Zookeys, Zookeys, 2021, 1031, pp.183-204. ⟨10.3897/zookeys.1031.56035⟩, Repositorio U. El Bosque, Universidad El Bosque, instacron:Universidad El Bosque, ZooKeys, Vol 1031, Iss, Pp 183-204 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Pensoft Publishers, 2021.
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Abstract
- The Saturniidae is one of the most emblematic families of moths, comprising nearly 3000 species distributed globally. In this study, DNA barcode analysis and comparative morphology were combined to describe three new species within the genusAutomeris, which is the most diverse genus in the family.Automeris llanerosDecaëns, Rougerie & Bonilla,sp. nov.,Automeris minerosDecaëns, Rougerie & Bonilla,sp. nov., andAutomeris belemensisDecaëns, Rougerie & Bénéluz,sp. nov.are described from the Colombian Orinoco watershed, the Colombian Eastern Cordillera, and the area of endemism of Belém in the Brazilian Amazonia, respectively. They all belong to theAutomeris bilinea(Walker, 1855) species subgroup, which comprises a number of species that are sometimes difficult to distinguish from each other using morphology alone. Here, the description of these three new species is based on significant differences from their closest relatives, either in terms of wing patterns, genitalia, DNA barcodes or a combination of these features.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Neotropics
Insecta
Species Subgroup
Arthropoda
Automeris
Zoology
[SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
DNA barcoding
Lepidoptera genitalia
Saturniidae
Amazonia
Genus
Systematics
Animalia
Bombycoidea
Endemism
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
integrative taxonomy
new species
biology
Orinoco
biology.organism_classification
New species
[SDV.BA.ZI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology
Lepidoptera
010602 entomology
Hemileucinae
QL1-991
Integrative taxonomy
wild silkmoths
Animal Science and Zoology
Americas
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13132970 and 13132989
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- ZooKeys
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b0400de02871c1213b4132a94b32fe8a
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1031.56035⟩