Erycina prema, Godart, 1824

Santos, Wildio Ikaro Da Graça, Dolibaina, Diego Rodrigo, Dias, Fernando Maia Silva, Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik & Casagrande, Mirna Martins, 2023, A review of the South American metalmark genus Alesa Doubleday, 1847 (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Eurybiini) with the description of two new species, Zootaxa 5284 (1), pp. 77-120 : 80-81

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5284.1.3

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7334FB57-41A0-47CA-BCBF-FA108B13CEC1

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7921225

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FB5F61-FFB2-FFD9-FF36-FAC8099FFDCF

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scientific name

Erycina prema
status

 

prema View in CoL group”

This group includes the largest species of the genus, with forewing length ranging from 20.5– 26mm in males and 20–30mm in females. Males with lateral frontal area and paraocular areas whitish to creamy white; tip of antenna black; wings upper side, thorax and abdomen with metallic blue to green scales; forewing apex rounded (except in A. juliae sp. nov.); forewing intervenal submarginal spots delimited above and below by scales with the same color as the ground color; hindwing tornus rounded (except in A. prema ); hindwing upper side with submarginal and postdiscal bands similar in color; spots on the proximal margin of abdomen; inner process of valva narrower and shorter than the outer. Females with forewing ground color and bands brown, basal and postbasal bands covered partially by metallic green scales, or with a wide blue or green metallic area, if so, then with a creamy white postdiscal diagonal band.

Included species: A. prema , A. esmeralda , A. beneluzi , A. rothschildi and A. juliae sp. nov.

Key for males from the “ prema View in CoL group”

1 Wings upper side bands and body blue.................................................................... 2

1’ Wings upper side bands and body green................................................................... 3

2 Forewing upper side postdiscal and submarginal bands free................................................ prema View in CoL 2’ Forewing upper side postdiscal and submarginal bands merged.......................................... esmeralda View in CoL

3 Wings underside ground color pinkish brown......................................................... beneluzi View in CoL

3’ Wings underside ground color gray....................................................................... 4

4 Forewing upper side discal and postdiscal bands developed............................................. rothschildi View in CoL

4’ Forewing upper side discal and postdiscal bands vestigial........................................... juliae View in CoL sp. nov.

Key for females from the “ prema View in CoL group”

1 Wings upper side ground color brown, with dark brown bands.............................................. prema View in CoL

1’ Wings upper side ground color gray, with black bands........................................................ 2

2 Forewing upper side postdiscal band whitish, narrow and nearly reaching the outer margin.................... rothschildi View in CoL

2’ Forewing upper side postdiscal band yellowish cream, wide and not reaching the outer margin.............. juliae View in CoL sp. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Riodinidae

Genus

Erycina

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