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Issue: Vol. 4877 No. 3: 11 Nov. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-11-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4877.3.6
Page range: 505–538
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Revision of Roelofa Schaus, 1928 (Lepidoptera, Mimallonidae, Roelofinae) with a description of a new species

Department of Biology, University of Florida, 220 Bartram Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611 McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, 3215 Hull Road, Gainesville, FL 32611-2710 USA
Correspondant to the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris; 7, Le Clos de Lutché, F-31380 Garidech, France.
Department of Biology, University of Florida, 220 Bartram Hall, Gainesville, FL 32611 McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, 3215 Hull Road, Gainesville, FL 32611-2710 USA Entomology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Andes Atlantic Forest Cerrado Neotropical taxonomy Lepidoptera

Abstract

The mimallonid genus Roelofa is revised. It is the only genus belonging to the recently erected subfamily, Roelofinae.Both sexes and genitalia are figured for all previously described species in the genus, and all are redescribed. The species Roelofa maera stat. rev. is no longer considered a synonym of R. narga based on morphological differences. We describe a new species from Guatemala: R. monzoni St Laurent, Herbin & Kawahara, sp. n. which is most similar to the widespread Central American R. hegewischi.

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