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| Lento yaguar Medeiros & Mielke, 2025 |
Abstract
A rare new species of skipper butterfly from the western Amazon Basin (Cuzco and Madre de Dios, Peru and Acre, Brazil) belonging to the subtribe Moncina (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) is herein described: Lento yaguar Medeiros & O. Mielke sp. nov. The new species can be easily recognized by the conspicuous yellow and black hind wing ventral pattern, that resembles the peculiar color of a jaguar’s skin. This interesting pattern is unique among Hesperiidae, and a similar pattern occurs only in a few species of Riodinidae. The presence of an unusual, modified scale patch on the male abdominal tergites III, IV, and V of L. yaguar sp. nov., is herein hypothesized as an androconial organ and represents the first record of this kind of structure on the abdominal tergum of a skipper species.
Keywords: Lento yaguar, Morphology, New taxa, Skippers, Taxonomy
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| Lento yaguar sp. nov. (1-5) Holotype male. (1) Head in dorsal view, highlighting the blue frons. (2) antenna in ventral view. (3) Nudo. (4-5) dorsal, and ventral views. (6-7) Allotype Female, dorsal, and ventral views. The red arrows point to the main differences between males and females. |
Adalberto Dantas de Medeiros and Olaf Hermann Hendrik Mielke. 2025. A rare New Species of Lento Evans, 1955 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) from the western Amazon Basin. Papéis Avulsos De Zoologia. 65; e202565019. DOI: doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2025.65.019