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Published on: March 31, 2022
A new species of Wahydra from Ecuador (Hesperiidae, Hesperiinae, Anthoptini)
Eduardo Carneiro1, Diego R Dolibaina, Nick V Grishin
1Laboratório de Estudos em Lepidoptera Neotropical, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná. P.O. Box 19020, 81531-980 Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. eduardo.carneiro@ufpr.br.
Abstract:
Recent taxonomic studies on the genus Wahydra Steinhauser, 1991, have described five new species in the past two years, from high elevations in the Andes Mountains. A markedly distinct species of Wahydra is herein described and illustrated based on a single male specimen from Ecuadorian Andes, Wahydra graslieae A. Warren, Carneiro Dolibaina, sp. nov. The new species is compared with other species of Wahydra, as well as with the somewhat similar species Lerema viridis (Bell, 1942) and Tigasis viridenex (Weeks, 1901).
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