A new genus, Atlanteuptychia gen. nov., for Euptychia ernestina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)

Atlanteuptychia Freitas, Barbosa & Mielke, gen. nov. is proposed for Euptychia ernestina Weymer, 1911 and illustrated. This taxon lacks the posterior projection of the tegumen, a synapomorphy of Euptychia Hübner, 1818, and does not share morphological synapomorphies with Cyllopsis R. Felder, 186...

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Published in:	Zoologia (Curitiba)
Main Authors:	André V. L. Freitas, Eduardo P. Barbosa, Jessie P. Santos, Olaf H. H. Mielke
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia 2013-12-01
Subjects:	Atlantic Forest Butterfly Euptychiina Satyrini
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-46702013000600011&lng=en&tlng=en