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Issue: Vol. 719 No. 1: 11 Nov. 2004
Type: Articles
Published: 2004-11-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.719.1.1
Page range: 1–10
Abstract views: 38
PDF downloaded: 36

Two new species of Actinote (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) from Southeastern Brazil

Universidade Católica de Santos, Campus D. Idílio José Soares, Av. Cons. Nébias, 300, Prédio dos Laboratórios, Sala 213, Santos, São Paulo 11015-200, Brazil
Museu de História Natural and Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, CP 6109, Campinas, São Paulo 13083-970, Brazil
Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Orleans, 2000 Lakeshore Drive, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70148, USA
Lepidoptera Acraeini Atlantic Forest butterfly genitalia Heliconiinae Neotropics

Abstract

Two new species of Actinote (Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae, Acraeini) are described from southeastern Brazil. Actinote eberti sp. nov. occurs in the Serra da Mantiqueira region and resembles members of the Actinote black-yellow mimicry group. Actinote pratensis sp. nov. is found in widely scattered points in the rich-soil central S o Paulo transition between montane and semideciduous atlantic forest, and belongs to the orange-yellow mimicry group.

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