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Sociedade Brasileira De Entomologia, Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 2(60), p. 157-165, 2016

DOI: 10.1016/j.rbe.2016.01.004

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‘Species’ from two different butterfly genera combined into one: description of a new genus of Euptychiina (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) with unusually variable wing pattern

Journal article published in 2016 by André Victor Lucci Freitas, Freitas,André Victor Lucci, Eduardo Proença Barbosa, Barbosa,Eduardo Proença, Keith Richard Willmott, Willmott,Keith Richard, Niklas Wahlberg, Wahlberg,Niklas, Gerardo Lamas ORCID, Lamas,Gerardo
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Abstract

ABSTRACT Sepona Freitas and Barbosa, gen. nov. is proposed for the Neotropical satyrine butterfly species Euptychia punctataWeymer, 1911 and its junior subjective synonyms Euptychia griseolaWeymer, 1911 and Taygetis indecisa Ribeiro, 1931. The new genus has a distinctive wing pattern and shape of the valvae in the male genitalia, the latter being a unique autapomorphy within the subtribe Euptychiina. Based on molecular data, this genus is not sister to any other single euptychiine genus, instead appearing as the sister to all remaining genera in the Taygetis clade. The present paper illustrates the complexity of the taxonomy of Euptychiina, and the importance of using different sources of evidence in taxonomic studies.