Carlos G. C. Mielke

Papilionoidea e Hesperioidea (Lepidoptera) de Curitiba e seus arredores, Paraná, Brasil, com notas taxonômicas sobre Hesperiidae

A list of butterflies from Curitiba and vicinity, Parana, Brazil is given, 486 species are listed. The following are syn.n.: Phanes hoffmani Bell, 1940 of Phanis tavola Schaus, 1902; Parphorus nemorus Bell, 1941 and Tigasis altona Evans. 1955 of Phlebodes fartuga Schaus, 1902; Megistias gisparoides Hayward, 1934 of Megistias sancoya Schaus, 1902; Hesperia curassavica Snellen, 1887 of Hesperia clavus Erickson, 1848. The following is a stat.n.: Vehilius almoneus vetus Mielke, 1969. The following are comb.n.: Phanes tavola (Schaus, 1902); Parphorus fartuga (Schaus, 1902); Cobalopsis sancoya (Schaus, 1902); Arita polistion (Schaus, 1902). The following is sp.rev.: Arita polistion (Schaus, 1902).

Estudo comparado da morfologia externa de Zaretis itys itylus (Westwood) e Agrias claudina annetta (Gray) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Charaxinae). III. Abdome

Two species of Charaxinae, Zaretis itys itylus (Westwood, 1850) and Agrias claudina annetta (Gray, 1832) were subject of a detailed and comparative study of external morphology of the abdome. The results obtained were compared with other studies published and related to the external morphology of other Nymphalidae (Brassolinae, Morphinae, Danainae and Ithomiinae) and Lycaenidae.

Estudo comparado da morfologia externa de Zaretis itys itylus (Westwood) e Agrias claudina annetta (Gray) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Charaxinae) I. Cabeça, apêndices e região cervical

Two species of Charaxinae, Zaretis itys itylus (Westwood, 1850) and Agrias claudina annetta (Gray, 1832) were subject of a detailed and comparative study of external morphology of the head, appendages and cervical region. The results obtained were compared with other studies published and related to the external morphology of other Nymphalidae subfamilies (Brassolinae, Morphinae, Danainae and Ithomiinae).

Parides panthonus jaguarae (Foetterle) (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) redescoberto em Minas Gerais, Brasil: sua identidade

Parides panthonus jaguarae (Foetterle, 1902) was rediscovered at Brumadinho, Minas Gerais and is synomyzised with Parides burchellanus (Westwood, 1872) syn. nov. The first is the male of the second.

Three new genera of Neotropical Mimallonidae (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae) with descriptions of three new species.

Abstract Three new genera of Mimallonidae are described. The monotypic genus Tostallo gen. n. is erected to contain “Perophora” albescens Jones, 1912, which was previously placed in the preoccupied genus Perophora Harris, 1841 and was never formally moved to a valid genus. Perophora is a junior homonym of Cicinnus Blanchard, 1852, but the name albescens is not appropriately placed in Cicinnus due to external and genitalia characteristics entirely unique to the species albescens. The female of Tostallo albescens comb. n. is described and both sexes are figured for the first time. Auroriana gen. n. is erected to contain Auroriana florianensis (Herbin, 2012), comb. n. previously described as Cicinnus florianensis, and two new species: Auroriana colombiana sp. n. from Colombia and Auroriana gemma sp. n. from southeastern and southern Brazil. The female of Auroriana florianensis is described and figured for the first time. Finally, the monotypic genus Micrallo gen. n. is erected to include a new species, Micrallo minutus sp. n. described from northeastern Brazil.

Paradaemonia balsasensis sp. nov. da Serra do Penitente, Balsas, Maranhão, Brasil (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae, Arsenurinae)

^lpt^aDescreve-se uma nova especie de Paradaemonia Bouvier, 1925.^len^aA new species of Paradaemonia Bouvier, 1925 is described.

Revision of the genus Reinmara Schaus, 1928 (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae) with the descriptions of four new species from South America

Abstract The mimallonid genus Reinmara Schaus, 1928 is revised. The three previously described species, R. enthona (Schaus, 1905), R. minasa Schaus, 1928, and R. wolfei Herbin & C. Mielke, 2014 are redescribed and the females of each are described and figured for the first time. Additionally, we describe four new species, two Andean: R. andensis sp. n. and R. occidentalis sp. n., and two Brazilian: R. atlantica sp. n. and R. ignea sp. n.. The new species R. ignea and R. atlantica are likely of conservation concern due to their rarity in collections and their apparent endemism to an endangered biome, the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.

Revision of the genus Tarema Schaus, 1896 (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae) with the description of a new species from southeastern Brazil

Abstract The genus Tarema Schaus, 1896 is revised. The species Tarema fuscosa Jones, 1908 and Tarema rivara Schaus, 1896 are redescribed, the female of the former is described and figured for the first time, and the genitalia of both sexes for each species are figured for the first time. The lectotype of Tarema macarina Schaus, 1928, syn. n. is determined to be the female of Tarema rivara. Tarema bruna sp. n. is described from São Paulo, Brazil. Lectotypes for Tarema fuscosa, Tarema rivara, and Tarema macarina are here designated.

Dirphia Hübner (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae, Hemileucinae): descrição de uma espécie nova do sul do Brasil e da fêmea de D. rufescens F. Johnson & Michener

A new species of Dirphia Hubner, [1819] from Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, Brazil is described. Closely related to D. sombrero (Le Cerf, 1934), the new species differs by its smaller size and male genitalia (aedeagus bears dorsal vesica and this shows disperse spiculae). The female of Dirphia rufescens F. Johnson & Michener, 1948 is described for the first time and its geographical distribution is updated.

New species of Dugdaleiella, gen. nov., Kozloviella, gen. nov., and Pfitzneriella Viette from upper elevation Andes of Ecuador and Peru (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae)

Six new Hepialidae species are described from high elevation habitats in the Andes of Peru and Ecuador. One species is assigned to the genus Kozloviella gen. n., K. viazmenskyi sp. n., from Peru, and five to the genus Pfitzneriella Viette, 1951: P. antonkozlovi sp. n., P. olafi sp. n., P. titarenkoi, sp. n., P. yuliyakovalevae sp. n. from Peru and P. rawlinsi sp. n., from Ecuador. Dugdaleiella gen. n., is proposed to accommodate the Ecuadorian species Dugdaleiella monticola (Maassen, 1890) comb. n., formerly placed in Pfitzneriella. The taxonomic (but not the phylogenetic) status of P. lucicola (Maassen, 1890) is unaltered pending future opportunity to examine the type series. Preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the morphological characters supports Kozloviella gen. n., and Pfitzneriella as sister taxa, and separates P. titarenkoi sp. n., from the other species of Pfitzneriella. We suggest that the ancestor of these high elevation genera already occupied a pre-Andean upland habitat across Peru and Ecuador and this ancestor further diverged into the modern genera and species during the Andean orogeny. We consider it likely that there is a considerable diversity of endemic high elevation Hepialidae that remains to be discovered in the eastern Andes between Venezuela and Bolivia.