Telemiades megallus, Mabille, 1888

Siewert, Ricardo Russo, Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik & Casagrande, Mirna Martins, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Telemiades Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Eudaminae), with descriptions of fourteen new species, Zootaxa 4721 (1), pp. 1-111 : 65-66

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4721.1.1
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scientific name	Telemiades megallus
status

Treatment

“ megallus View in CoL group”

Species included:

Telemiades megallus Mabille, 1888 View in CoL

Telemiades squanda Evans, 1953 View in CoL

Telemiades moa Siewert, Mielke & Casagrande , sp. nov.

The “ megallus group” is composed of three species characterized by the following characters: DFW with purple reflections; uncus short, about 1/3 the size of tegumen; latero–posterior apophysis of tegumen short, half size of latero–anterior apophysis, which is slightly sinuous dorsally; valva with distal projection rounded, margin serrated, and dorso–distal margin with a crested–like projection; aedeagus long, slightly curved; insertion of manica in proximal fourth of aedeagus.