Agaraea sericeum ( Zerny, 1931 ) Zerny, 1931

Beccacece, Hernán Mario & Zapata, Adriana Inés, 2017, Taxonomic changes of some neotropical species of Arctiini Leach (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae), Zootaxa 4272 (3), pp. 421-429 : 422-423

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.3.7

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:114FC930-2AAF-4BB1-ADF8-CF912E15D74A

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6003518

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9360522D-8D78-FFB3-B7BB-F8D9AC83AAA7

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scientific name

Agaraea sericeum ( Zerny, 1931 )
status

comb. nov.

Agaraea sericeum ( Zerny, 1931) comb. n.

Recently, a male lectotype of Eucereon sericeum Zerny, 1931: 25 ; pl. 1, fig. 5 has been designated and illustrated by Pinheiro & Gaal-Haszler (2015). The habitus and genitalia of the lectotype are certainly not part of a monophyletic concept of Eucereon or even Ctenuchina ( Pinheiro & Gaal-Haszler 2015). In fact, morphological traits of lectotype are similar to those of Agaraea longicornis Herrich-Schäffer , [1855], the type species of the genus Agaraea Herrich-Schäffer (illustrated in Vincent & Laguerre, 2014). For this reason, the above-mentioned new combination is here proposed.

Pinheiro & Gaal-Haszler (2015) also stated that there are three other species closely related to A. sericeum : Eucereon album (Druce) , E. vestalis (Schaus) and Hyaleucerea mundula (Berg) . Further studies are necessary to know if these species really correspond to Agaraea .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Genus

Agaraea

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