Cisandina fida directa Nakahara & Willmott, 2022

Nakahara, Shinichi, Rodríguez-Melgarejo, Maryzender, Kleckner, Kaylin, Corahua-Espinoza, Thalia, Tejeira, Rafael, Espeland, Marianne, Casagrande, Mirna M., Barbosa, Eduardo P., See, Joseph, Gallice, Geoffrey & Lamas, Gerardo, 2022, Systematic Revision of a New Butterfly Genus, Cisandina Nakahara & Espeland, n. gen., with Descriptions of Three New Taxa (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae), Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1), pp. 1-30 : 26

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.1093/isd/ixab028

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:ACFA7036-C10E-4370-BF43-D22288168F33

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/605487FD-FF83-FB54-FF09-FD864670FEDE

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Cisandina fida directa Nakahara & Willmott
status

subsp. nov.

Cisandina fida directa Nakahara & Willmott , New Subspecies

( Figs. 1 View Fig , 2m and n View Fig , 3p and q View Fig , 4h and i View Fig , 8 View Fig )

Description and Diagnosis:

Male: Forewing length 23.5–24.5 mm (n = 2): Differs from the nominotypical subspecies in the following respect: VHW postdiscal band rather straight; this band traverses distally after passing Cu 2 and bends back half way between Cu

2

and 2A ( Fig. 2m View Fig ).

Female: Forewing length 24.5–25.0 mm (n = 2): Differs from the nominotypical subspecies by the same ventral forewing character provided for the male ( Fig. 2n View Fig ); differs from the male by having more broad and rounded wing shape; two small ocelli present in VFW cells M 2 and M 3 in one female (from Zamora, ridge to west, 13 Jan 2002), whereas the ocelli are absent in these cells in the other examined female (FLMNH-MGCL-145742).

Type material. Holotype male, with the following labels separated by double-forward slashes:// ECUADOR: Zamora-Chinchipe Zamora , ridge to west, 1,400–1,450 m 4°4.50 ′ S, 78°58.12 ′ W 18.v.2000, K. Willmott //DNA voucher LEP-14657// Genitalic vial SN-20-42 S. Nakahara // ( FLMNH, to be deposited in INABIO). GoogleMaps

Paratypes (2 ♂, 2 ♀): Ecuador: Zamora-Chinchipe: km 10 Los Encuentros-El Panguí , ridge E San Roque, [3°42 ′ 11 ″ S, 78°35 ′ 36 ″ W], 1,050 m, (Willmott, K. R., Hall, J. P. W.), 4 Aug 2009, 1 ♀ [FLMNH-MGCL-145742] [dissection, SN-15-180], ( FLMNH) GoogleMaps ; km 14 Yacuambí-Saraguro rd., Juyapa , [3°34 ′ 48 ″ S, 78°57 ′ 2 ″ W], 1,740 m, (Willmott, K. R., J. I. R., J. C. R.), 21 Jun 2013, 1 ♂ [FLMNH-MGCL-157449], ( FLMNH) GoogleMaps ; Zamora , ridge to west, [4°4 ′ 30 ″ S, 78°58 ′ 7 ″ W], 1,400–1,450 m, (Willmott, K. R.), 13 Jan 2002, 1 ♀, ( FLMNH), 20 May 2000, 1 ♂, ( FLMNH) GoogleMaps .

Other records: Peru: Ucayali: Río Aguaytía, Previsto , [9°3 ′ S, 75°38 ′ W], 420–500 m, Oct 2006, 1 ♂ [ FLMNH- MGCL-281611; MGCL Accession #2016-40 E. C. Knudson / Bordelon], ( FLMNH) [this locality is doubtful, and the specimen probably originated further west, in Huánuco department] GoogleMaps .

Etymology. This species-group name is a feminine Latin adjective meaning ‘straight, not curved’, in reference to the smoother VHW postdiscal band compared with the nominate race.

Distribution and natural history. This subspecies is known from southern Ecuador (Zamora-Chinchipe) and central Peru ( Fig. 8 View Fig ). In Ecuador, it occurs in cloud forest from 1,050 to 1,740 m, where it is rare and only known from ridge top localities. Males were attracted to rotting fish in canopy bait traps or to similar bait placed on leaves 1 m above the ground, and one female was found flying along the edge of a road through a secondary forest with abundant bamboo during the middle of the day.

FLMNH

Florida Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Nymphalidae

Genus

Cisandina

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