Four new species of Symmerista Hübner, 1816 (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) from Costa Rica

Abstract. The genus Symmerista Hübner (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) is reviewed for Costa Rica, based on 49 wild-caught specimens. Four species are newly described: Symmerista luisdiegogomezi Chacón, Symmerista inbioi Chacón, Symmerista minaei Chacón and Symmerista aura Chacón. All are from the cloud...

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Autores principales: Chacón, Isidro A., Janzen, Daniel H., Hallwachs, Winnie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4109470/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25061379
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.421.6342
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Janzen, Daniel H.
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description Abstract. The genus Symmerista Hübner (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) is reviewed for Costa Rica, based on 49 wild-caught specimens. Four species are newly described: Symmerista luisdiegogomezi Chacón, Symmerista inbioi Chacón, Symmerista minaei Chacón and Symmerista aura Chacón. All are from the cloud forests of the Talamanca moutain range, southern Costa Rica. Photographs of the adults, male and female genitalia, and barcodes are also provided. The species Symmerista tlotzin Schaus (1892) is removed from Symmerista and assigned to the genus Elymiotis Walker as a new combination.
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spelling pubmed-41094702014-07-24 Four new species of Symmerista Hübner, 1816 (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) from Costa Rica Chacón, Isidro A. Janzen, Daniel H. Hallwachs, Winnie Zookeys Research Article Abstract. The genus Symmerista Hübner (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) is reviewed for Costa Rica, based on 49 wild-caught specimens. Four species are newly described: Symmerista luisdiegogomezi Chacón, Symmerista inbioi Chacón, Symmerista minaei Chacón and Symmerista aura Chacón. All are from the cloud forests of the Talamanca moutain range, southern Costa Rica. Photographs of the adults, male and female genitalia, and barcodes are also provided. The species Symmerista tlotzin Schaus (1892) is removed from Symmerista and assigned to the genus Elymiotis Walker as a new combination. Pensoft Publishers 2014-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC4109470/ /pubmed/25061379 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.421.6342 Text en Isidro A. Chacón, Daniel H. Janzen, Winnie Hallwachs http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Chacón, Isidro A.
Janzen, Daniel H.
Hallwachs, Winnie
Four new species of Symmerista Hübner, 1816 (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) from Costa Rica
title Four new species of Symmerista Hübner, 1816 (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) from Costa Rica
title_full Four new species of Symmerista Hübner, 1816 (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) from Costa Rica
title_fullStr Four new species of Symmerista Hübner, 1816 (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) from Costa Rica
title_full_unstemmed Four new species of Symmerista Hübner, 1816 (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) from Costa Rica
title_short Four new species of Symmerista Hübner, 1816 (Notodontidae, Nystaleinae) from Costa Rica
title_sort four new species of symmerista hübner, 1816 (notodontidae, nystaleinae) from costa rica
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4109470/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25061379
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.421.6342
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