Hagnagora acothysta (Schaus, 1901)

Brehm, Gunnar, 2015, Three new species of Hagnagora Druce, 1885 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Larentiinae) from Ecuador and Costa Rica and a concise revision of the genus, ZooKeys 537, pp. 131-156 : 144-145

Taxon classification Animalia Lepidoptera Geometridae

Hagnagora acothysta (Schaus, 1901) stat. rev. Fig. 28

Type locality.

[Brazil], Parana, Castro.

Remarks.

Together with jamaicensis , Schaus (1901) originally placed this species in the genus Heterusia . It was then ranked down as a subspecies of mortipax by Parsons et al. (1999). The major characteristic of acothysta is the reduction of the white transversal band (found both in mortipax and jamaicensis ) to a smaller blotch that reaches about half the area found in mortipax . As in jamaicensis , further evidence from barcoding is desirable for the consolidation of the species status.

Distribution.

Brazil.

Diagnosis.

Unlike mortipax and jamaicensis , this species shows no white transversal band on the forewing, but rather a reduced blotch that reaches only about 50% of the size observed in mortipax .