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Issue: Vol. 1926 No. 1: 7 Nov. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-11-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1926.1.3
Page range: 27–40
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 1

Notes on the genus Celotes, with the description of a new species from Mexico (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae: Pyrgini)

McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, SW 34th Street and Hull Road, P. O. Box 112710, Gainesville, FL 32611-2710 U.S.A Museo de Zoología, Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo. Postal 70-399, México D.F. 04510 México
Research Associate, McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity
Museo de Zoología, Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apdo. Postal 70-399, México D.F. 04510 México
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390-9050
Lepidoptera limpia nessus metathoracic pouch streaky-skipper Querétaro

Abstract

A new species of Celotes is described from central Mexico, bringing the total number of species in this genus to three. The new Celotes is larger and darker than its two congeners, and is immediately distinguished from them by a combination of a very long and curved projection from the valva, broad valvae, terminally narrowing less massive harpe, smaller tegumen and narrower uncus. These abundantly distinct genitalic characters, together with whitish, but rounded, scales on the dorsal surface of the male metathoracic pouch strongly argue for the species-level recognition of this seemingly allopatric Celotes phenotype.

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