Castnia jeanneei, (Rebel, 1915)

Worthy, Robert, González, Jorge M. & Zilli, Alberto, 2022, A review of the genera Amauta Houlbert, 1918 and Divana J. Y. Miller, 1982 (Lepidoptera: Castniidae) with description of a new genus, Zootaxa 5194 (3), pp. 301-342 : 329-330

jeanneei ( Rebel, 1915)

( Fig. 7A )

“ Castnia jeanneei nov. spec. ( ♂)” Rebel, 1915, Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 65 (9/10): (214)–(216), fig. 3 [Sitzungsberichte] .

Type material: Described from a single male specimen designated as type (fig. 7A). According to Rebel (1915), this subspecies is very similar to cacica , but the forewing yellowish-cream bands are narrower. The hindwing orange band is broader in cacica . The holotype was originally in the collection of Dr. Josef Jeannée (Vienna), but we have no information about the whereabouts of his collection. We could not find it in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna.

Type locality: Peru. Rebel provides no more details on the locality so it cannot be further pinpointed. G. Lamas (pers. comm.) considers that “ Peru ”, as the type locality, is “almost certainly erroneous” [“…la localidad tipo (“ Peru ”) es casi seguramente errónea.”] .

Taxonomic status: A junior subjective synonym of Castnia angusta H. Druce, 1907 . Originally described as a species, not mentioned by Miller (1995) but synonymised by Lamas (1995).

Male genitalia: Not available.

Distribution: “ Peru ”.

Discussion: Rebel (1915) compares his new taxon with Amauta cacica rather than A. angusta (or oberthueri ). He was clearly unaware of these latter taxa otherwise he would surely have realised that this was what he had in front of him.

Material examined: As the type could not be found, only the black and white illustration in Rebel (1915) was examined.

Figures

FIGURE 7. Amauta angusta (H. Druce, 1907): A, ♂ HT, jeanneei (Rebel, 1915), [Peru] (Original photo); B, ♂ HT, subangusta Strand, 1913, S[an] Antonio [Ecuador] (MWNH); C, ♀ HT, angusta, Los L[l]anos, Ecuador, ex Druce, ex Joicey, NHMUK010474224 (NHMUK); D, ♂ ST, oberthueri (Houlbert, 1917), Equateur, Balzapamba, Prov de Bolivar, M de Mathan, 9bre 1893 á Fev 1894, Colombia, ex Oberthür (NHMUK); E, ♀ ST, oberthueri (Houlbert, 1917), Equateur, Balzapamba, Prov de Bolivar, M de Mathan, 9bre 1893 á Fev 1894, Colombia, ex Oberthür (NHMUK).