Hesperiidae of Rondônia, Brazil: Cephise Evans (Pyrginae), with descriptions of new species from Mexico and Brazil

Austin, George T.; Mielke, Olaf H.H.

doi:10.1590/S0101-81752000000300021

Abstract

The species of Cephise Evans, 1953 are divided in two groups: "cephise" group (hind wing without long tails) and "procerus" group (hind wing with long tails). In the "cephise" group the following species are included: Cephise cephise (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) with his synonyms Thymele hydarnes Mabille, syn.n., Eudamus zopyrus Plötz, 1881, Telennades injuncta Plötz, 1882, nom. nud., Eudamus maneros Mabille, 1883, syn.n., Nascus orima Schaus, 1902, syn.n., Nascus orita Schaus, 1902; Cephise impunctus sp.n. from Rondônia, Brazil; Cephise glarus (Mabille, 1888), sp. reval.; Cephise nuspesez Burns, 1996; Cephise malesedis sp.n. from Rondônia, Brazil; Cephise maculatus sp.n. from Rondônia, Brazil; Cephise burnsi sp.n. from Espírito Santo, Brazil; Cephise mexicanus sp.n. from Oaxaca and San Luis Potosi, Mexico. In the "procerus" group are included: Cephise procerus (Plötz, 1880); Cephise aelius (Plötz, 1880) sp. reval.. comb.n.. with its synonyms Eudamus auginulus Godman & Salvin, 1893, syn.n. and Eudamus callicina Schaus, 1902, syn.n.; Cephise callias (Mabille, 1888); and Cephise guatemalaensis (Freeman, 1977). Lectotypes are designated for Eudamus cephise Herrich-Schäffer, 1869, Thymele hydarnes Mabille, 1877, Telegonus glarus Mabille, 1988, Eudamus callias Mabille, 1888, Goniurus procerus Plötz, 1888, and Goniurus aelius Plötz, 1880. Neotypes are designated for Eudamus zopyrus Plötz, 1881, and Thymele maneros Mabille, 1883. A pseudotype of Thymele hydarnes is identified, this is actually a female of Cephise impunctus sp.n. Six species of Cephise occur sympatrically in Rondônia, Brazil.

Hesperiidae; Cephise; systematics; neotropical

Hesperiidae of Rondônia, Brazil: Cephise Evans (Pyrginae), with descriptions of new species from Mexico and Brazil¹

George T. Austin^I; Olaf H.H. Mielke^II

^INevada State Museum and Historical Society. 700 Twin Lakes Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada 89107

^IIDepartamento de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Paraná. Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-990 Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil. Fellow CNPq

ABSTRACT

The species of Cephise Evans, 1953 are divided in two groups: "cephise" group (hind wing without long tails) and "procerus" group (hind wing with long tails). In the "cephise" group the following species are included: Cephise cephise (Herrich-Schäffer, 1869) with his synonyms Thymele hydarnes Mabille, syn.n., Eudamus zopyrus Plötz, 1881, Telennades injuncta Plötz, 1882, nom. nud., Eudamus maneros Mabille, 1883, syn.n., Nascus orima Schaus, 1902, syn.n., Nascus orita Schaus, 1902; Cephise impunctus sp.n. from Rondônia, Brazil; Cephise glarus (Mabille, 1888), sp. reval.; Cephise nuspesez Burns, 1996; Cephise malesedis sp.n. from Rondônia, Brazil; Cephise maculatus sp.n. from Rondônia, Brazil; Cephise burnsi sp.n. from Espírito Santo, Brazil; Cephise mexicanus sp.n. from Oaxaca and San Luis Potosi, Mexico. In the "procerus" group are included: Cephise procerus (Plötz, 1880); Cephise aelius (Plötz, 1880) sp. reval.. comb.n.. with its synonyms Eudamus auginulus Godman & Salvin, 1893, syn.n. and Eudamus callicina Schaus, 1902, syn.n.; Cephise callias (Mabille, 1888); and Cephise guatemalaensis (Freeman, 1977). Lectotypes are designated for Eudamus cephise Herrich-Schäffer, 1869, Thymele hydarnes Mabille, 1877, Telegonus glarus Mabille, 1988, Eudamus callias Mabille, 1888, Goniurus procerus Plötz, 1888, and Goniurus aelius Plötz, 1880. Neotypes are designated for Eudamus zopyrus Plötz, 1881, and Thymele maneros Mabille, 1883. A pseudotype of Thymele hydarnes is identified, this is actually a female of Cephise impunctus sp.n. Six species of Cephise occur sympatrically in Rondônia, Brazil.

Key words: Hesperiidae, Cephise, systematics, neotropical

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. We thank S. R. Steinhauser (SRS) for sharing his extensive knowledge of Neotropical Hesperiidae and Wolfram Mey (ZMHB) for permitting the study of the types. Loans of specimens were facilitated by J.E. Rawlins (CM), F. H. Rindge (AMNH) and S. R. Steinhauser (AME). P.J. DeVries is thanked for the loan of a

C. nuspesez

from Costa Rica. T.C Emmel and the Harald Schmitz family provided assistance and encouragement. G. Bongiolo, J.P. Brock, O. Gomes, D. and J. Lindsley, J.D. Turner, A.D. Warren, and F. and A. West assisted in the field. The Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico kindly issued the authorization permits from the Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia for our studies in Rondônia in collaboration with EMBRAPA/CPAC and the Universidade Federal do Paraná.

Recebido em 05.IV.1999; aceito em 25.VIII.2000.

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Austin, G.T., J.P. Brock & O.H.H. Mielke, 1993. Ants. birds, and skippers. Trop. Lepid. 4(Suppl. 2):1-11.
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______. 1979. Review of the Mexican Polythrix Watson 1893 (Hesperiidae). Jour. Lepid. Soc. 33:124-128.
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______. 1882. Einige Hesperiinen-Gattungen und deren Arten. Berl. ent. Ztschr. 26:71-82, 253-266.
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[1] Austin, G.T. 2000. Hesperiidae of Rondônia, Brazil: taxonomic comments on "night" skippers, with descriptions of new genera and species (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Pyrginae). Trop. Lepid., in press.

[2] Austin, G.T., J.P. Brock & O.H.H. Mielke, 1993. Ants. birds, and skippers. Trop. Lepid. 4(Suppl. 2):1-11.

[3] Austin, G.T. & O.H.H. Mielke. 1997. Hesperiidae of Rondônia, Brazil: Aguna (Pyrginae), with a partial revision and descriptions of new taxa from Mexico, Panamá, and Brazil. Revta bras. Zool. 14:889-965.

[4] Brown Jr., k.S. & O.H.H. Mielke. 1967. Lepidoptera of the Central Brazil Plateau. I. Preliminary list of Rhopalocera (continued): Lycaenidae, Pieridae, Papilionidae, Hesperiidae. Jour. Lepid. Soc. 21:145-168.

[5] Burns, J.M. 1996. Genitalia and the proper genus: Codatractus gets mysie and uvydixa - in a compact cyda group - as well as a hysterectomy, while cephise gets part of Polythrix (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae). Jour. Lepid. Soc. 50:173-216.

[6] de la Maza E., J.; A. White L. & R. de la Maza E. 1991. La fauna de mariposas de México. Parte II. Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Revta Soc. mex. Lepid. 14:3-44.

[7] de la Maza, J. & R.G. de la Maza. 1985. La fauna de mariposas de Boca del Chajul, Chiapas, Mexico (Rhopalocera). Parte I. Revta Soc. mex. Lepid. 9:23-44.

[8] de la Maza, R.G. & J. de la Maza. 1993. Mariposas de Chiapas. México, Gobierno dei Estado de Chiapas, 224p.

[9] de la Maza, R.G. & D. Gutiérrez. 1992. Rhopalóceros de Quintana Roo, su distribución, origen y evolución. Revta Soc. mex. Lepid. 15:1-44.

[10] de la Maza E., R.G. & A. White L. 1990. Rhopalocera de la Huasteca Potosina, su distribución, composición, origen y evolución. Revta Soc. mex. Lcpid. 13:29-87.

[11] Draudt, M.W.K. 1921-1924. Grypocera, breitköpfige Tagfalter, p. 833-1011. In: A. Seitz (Ed.). Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, vol. 5. Die amerikanischen Tagfalter. Stuttgart: A. Kernen.

[12] Evans, W.H. 1952. A catalogue of the American Hesperiidae in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II: Pyrginae - section 1. London, British Museum (Natural History), 246p.

[13] Freeman, H.A. 1945. Notes on some skippers, with new records for the United States. Canari. Ent. 77:201-203.

[14] ______. 1967. Polythrix octomaculala, not procerus, in Texas (Hesperiidae). Jour. Lepid. Soc. 21:228.

[15] ______. 1970. Notes on the genus Cephise Evans, with a new record for Mexico (Hesperiidae). Jour. Lepid. Soc. 24:68-69.

[16] ______. 1977. Six new species of Hesperiidae from Mexico. Jour. Lepid. Soc. 31:89-99.

[17] ______. 1979. Review of the Mexican Polythrix Watson 1893 (Hesperiidae). Jour. Lepid. Soc. 33:124-128.

[18] Godman, F.D. 1907. Notes on the American species of Hesperiidae described by Plötz. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 20(7):132-155.

[19] Godman, F.D. & O. Salvin. 1879-1901. Biologia Centrali-Americana. Zoologia, Lepidoptera-Rhopalocera. London, Taylor & Francis, 1269p.

[20] Hayward, K.J. 1948. Insecta, Lepidoptera (Rhopalocera), familia Hesperiidarum, subfamiliae Pyrrhopyginarum et Pyrginarum. In H.R. Descole (Ed.). Genera et species animalium argentinorum. Buenos Aires, Guillermo Kraft, Vol. 1, 389p.

[21] Lamas, G. 1994. List of butterflies from Tambopata (Explorer's Inn Reserve), p. 162-177. In: R.B. Foster; J.L. Carr & A.B. Forsyth (Eds). The Tambopata-Candamo Reserved Zone of Southeastern Peru: A Biological Assessment. Washington, DC, Conservation International, Rapid Assessment Program, RAP Working Papers 6, 184p.

[22] Mabille, P. 1877. Diagnoses d'hespériens nouveaux. Bull. Soc. ent. France 6: CXCVII-CCII.

[23] ______. 1888. Diagnoses de Lépidoptères (Hespérides) nouveaux. Le Naturaliste 2:98-99.

[24] Mabille, P. & P. Vuillot. 1890-1891. Novitates Lepidopterologicae. Paris, P. Vuillot, 161p.

[25] Mielke, O.H.H. & M.M. Casagrande. 1991. Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea e Hesperioidea coletados na Ilha de Maracá, Alto Alegre, Roraima, parte do projeto Maracá, com uma lista complementar de Hesperiidae de Roraima. Acta Amazonica 21:175-210.

[26] ______. 1998. Butterflies of the Ilha de Maracá, p. 355-359,467-478. In: W. Milliken & J.A. Ratter (Eds). Maracá. The biodiversity and environment of na aniazonian rainforest. Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, 508p.

[27] Plötz, C. 1880. Die Hesperiinen-Gattung Goniurus Hüb. und ihre Arten. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou 55(3):1-22.

[28] ______. 1881. Die Hesperiinen-Gattung Eudamus und ihre Arten. Stett. ent. Ztg. 42:500-504.

[29] ______. 1882. Einige Hesperiinen-Gattungen und deren Arten. Berl. ent. Ztschr. 26:71-82, 253-266.

[30] Robbins, R.K.; G. Lamas; O.H.H. Mielke; D.J. Harvey & M.M. Casagrande. 1996. Taxonomic composition and ecological structure of the species-rich butterfly community at Pakitza, Parque Nacional del Manu, Peru, p. 217-252. In: D.E. Wilson & A. Sandoval (Eds). Manu, The Biodiversity of Southeastern Peru. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution.

[31] Schaus, W. 1902. Descriptions of new American butterflies. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 24:383-460.

[32] Warren, A.D. 1999. Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera). In: J.E. Llorente Bousquets; E. González Soriano; & N. Papavero (Eds). Biodiversidad, taxonomia y Biogeografia de Artrópodos de México: Hacia una Sintesis de su Conocimiento. Mexico City, Inst. Biologia, UNAM & CONABIO, Vol. II, in press.