Pseudolycaena Wallengren, 1858
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4563.1.6 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5932762 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0390D93D-7B08-FFA0-FF5B-FF17FCE97D18 |
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Pseudolycaena Wallengren, 1858 View in CoL
type species: Papilio marsyas Linnaeus
Two Pseudolycaena View in CoL species have been recognized traditionally ( Godman & Salvin 1887 –1901; Draudt 1919 –1920; Robbins 2004b). Clench (1964) recognized one species, and Austin et al. (2007) recognized five species in two different groups based on a character matrix that was not analyzed phylogenetically. We used some of the newly proposed characters in Austin et al. (2007) in our phylogenetic analyses ( Martins et al. 2018), as they were informative, but could not confirm the validity of others because of excessive intraspecific variation. We follow the traditional two species taxonomy but note that the name P. dorcas (Druce) refers to populations that appear to be a hybrid mix of the two species. The genus occurs almost everywhere in the Neotropics, but the two species are allopatric or parapatric in all parts of their range except for a few scattered records of P. marsyas View in CoL and P. damo on the wet Caribbean coast of Central America.
Pseudolycaena View in CoL is characterized by seven synapomorphies ( Table 1), but the conspicuous disjointed spotting on the ventral wing patterns, the size, and the wing shape make this genus immediately recognizable ( Figs. 4 View FIGURES 1–7 and 14 View FIGURES 9–15 ).
(black arrows). 16. Lucilda crines . 17. Lucilda margaritacea .
FIGURES 18–19. Female genitalia ductus copulatrix (posterior of butterfly to the right) showing the transparent membranous area in the ductus bursae (arrow). 18. Denivia deniva lateral aspect. 19. Denivia espiritosanto ventral aspect.
Pseudolycaena damo (H. Druce, 1875) (Thecla) , type locality: Panama
dorcas ( H.H. Druce, 1907) (Thecla) , type locality: Peru [appears to be a “hybrid taxon” that could have been
synonymized under P. marsyas View in CoL .]
Distribution and Habitat. Mexico to Panama in wet and dry lowland habitats with two presumably disjunct
populations in South America. Western Ecuador in dry scrub coastal vegetation around Guayaquil south to
Tumbes, Peru. Dry scrub vegetation in the Rio Marañon Valley of Peru south of 5°S latitude. Pseudolycaena marsyas (Linnaeus, 1758) (Papilio) , type locality: In calidis regionibus [no locality given].
cybele (Godman & Salvin, 1896) ( Thecla ), type locality: St. Vincent
nellyae Lamas, 1981, type locality: Peru described as Pseudolycaena marsyas nellyae .
Distribution and Habitat. The entire Amazonian and Atlantic Regions in many kinds of habitats. Western
Colombia and western Ecuador in forest (not in scrub vegetation along the coast). Southwestern Ecuador and western Peru (Atacama Desert) in valleys with vegetation. Occasional records from the very wet Atlantic coast of Central America, where it overlaps the previous species, but it is not known if these records refer to this species, to wing pattern variants of P. damo , or to hybrids.
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Pseudolycaena Wallengren, 1858
Martins, Ananda Regina P., Duarte, Marcelo & Robbins, Robert K. 2019 |
dorcas ( H.H. Druce, 1907 ) (Thecla)
H. H. Druce 1907 |
Pseudolycaena
Wallengren 1858 |
Pseudolycaena
Wallengren 1858 |
P. marsyas
Linnaeus 1758 |
P. marsyas
Linnaeus 1758 |