Pariana lunata Nees

Duerr, Nathan, Corahua-Espinoza, Thalia, Baine, Quinlyn, Tejeira, Rafael, Ccahuana, Rodrigo, Espinoza, María Mercedes Del Castillo, Perlett, Eric, Cervantes-Martínez, Joselin Nidia, Santillana, Alexandra Liza, See, Joseph, Soto-Quispe, Yulisa Sari, Wood, Halle, Arteaga, Zunilda Escalante & Gallice, Geoffrey, 2022, Immature stages, new host plant records and shelter structures of Troyus phyllides (Röber, 1925) and Thoon ponka Evans, 1955 in the Peruvian Amazon (Lepidoptera Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae: Hesperiini), Zootaxa 5200 (4), pp. 372-390 : 383

Pariana lunata Nees

( Poaceae : Bambusoideae : Olyreae ) ( Figs. 6d–f )

The host plant for two individuals of Thoon ponka (2021-FLP-IMM-0049, 0281) was identified as a species of herbaceous bamboo, Pariana lunata Nees. In the study area, this herbaceous bamboo grows generally in light gaps and along large forest trails inside the forest understory. Based on 2021-FLP-IMM-0049, the particular individual where the egg was located was in a light gap near the edge of the forest. On the date the egg was collected, the plant height was 1.3 m. The egg was found 0.7 m above the ground situated on the abaxial surface of the middle part of the leaf blade, near to the leaf margin.

Figures

FIGURE 6. The host plants, Pariana sp. and Pariana lunata, and illustrations of the shelter structures of each immature stage of Thoon ponka: a) close-up view of Pariana sp. stem; b) small Pariana sp. plant; c) Pariana sp. plants in situ; d) view of Pariana lunata leaves with inflorescence; e) close-up view of inflorescence; f) Pariana lunata plant in situ; g) shelter structure during the first instar; h) shelter structure during the second and third instars; i) shelter structure during the fourth instar; j) shelter structure during the fifth instar.