Four new species and one new subspecies of Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) from the Tambopata river, Madre de Dios, Peru

Abstract

Four new species and one new subspecies of Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) are described. Aphyle niedmandi sp. nov., Evius ocassus sp. nov., Paranerita maculata sandeepani ssp. nov., Paranerita kotolnuki sp. nov. and Baritius flexuosus sp. nov. were collected in the Tambopata River region, Madre de Dios (Peru), as part of a Citizen Science Project, in mutual collaboration between the Natural History Museum (Lima–Peru) and Rainforest Expeditions. External morphological descriptions, morphology of male genitalia, and geographic distributions in Peru are given for all taxa as well as their barcoding.

A new species of the genus Watsonidia Toulgoët, 1981 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiini): example of polymorphism in the Amazon of Peru

“…Molecular analysis. Since the proposal of the use of the COI gene for the identification of species by Hebert et al (2003), several taxonomic works in neotropical Arctiinae have been carried out using barcoding (Vincent & Laguerre 2013, Laguerre 2016, Grados 2018, Vincent 2018. These have been carried out from an integrative taxonomy perspective (Dayrat 2005), with barcoding being used as another tool in systematic work, also considering the analysis and differentiation of the species morphological characters.…”

Estudio preliminar de los Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) del departamento de Arequipa, Perú

“…Los Arctiinae es un grupo de lepidópteros nocturnos con gran riqueza en los bosques montanos de la vertiente oriental de los Andes y la Amazonía peruana. Se tiene un conocimiento aceptable de las especies que ocurren en estas regiones (Grados 1999, 2001, 2002, 2018, Grados & Mantilla 2018. Se estima que en Perú podrían ocurrir más de 1600 especies (Grados datos inéditos).…”

First records of Sphingidae, Saturniidae, and Arctiinae (Lepidoptera) in the forests of Polylepis sericea in the Huascarán National Park, Ancash, Peru

“…In Peru, it is estimated the occurrence of 1,600 species of Arctiinae (Erebidae), 197 species of Sphingidae, and 342 species of Saturniidae (Lamas 2000;Grados 2011). Currently, there have been increased efforts to learn about these groups in this country, areas such as taxonomy (Grados & Ramírez 2016;Grados 2018;Grados & Mantilla 2018), biogeography, and ecological studies (Grados 2011;Ignatov et al 2011;Grados et al 2017) have been approached. Although there are several studies in different regions of Peru, the main focus is the Amazon region.…”