Revision of the Genus Pseudaethria Schaus (Lepidoptera, Erebidae)

Abstract

The genus Pseudaethria Schaus is revised and redescribed based on morphological characters of male and female adults. Its type species, Pseudaethria cessogae Schaus, was found out to be a junior subjective synonym of Heliura cosmosomodes Dognin. Therefore, the new combination Pseudaethria cosmosomodes is proposed along with another one: Pseudaethria analis Gaede new combination. A lectotype is designated to P. cessogae, which was described from an undetermined number of specimens. The distribution of the species is discussed as well as its systematic placement.

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

“…Advances in the last decades in the knowledge of Neotropical Arctiinae are based on phylogeny studies (Jacobson & Weller 2002;Zaspel et al 2014;Zenker et al 2017), revisions of some genera (Dietz & Duckworth 1976;Dietz 1994;Simmons & Weller 2006;Pinheiro & Duarte 2010;Pinheiro & Mey 2015), morphological studies (Weller et al 2000), faunistic studies (e.g., Grados 1999Grados , 2001Piñas et al 2000;Piñas & Manzano 2003;Teston & Corseuil 2004;Cerda 2008;Teston & Ferro 2016), new species descriptions (e.g., Grados 2004Grados , 2015Vincent 2011Coenen & Gibeaux 2014;Pinheiro 2016) and the publication of some synonyms (e.g., Grados 2002;Pinheiro & Duarte 2013;Beccacece & Zapata 2017).…”