{"title":"A new species of Hypolycaena (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India","authors":"Krushnamegh Kunte","doi":"10.5962/p.266468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.266468","url":null,"abstract":"A new species, Hypolycaena narada, sp. nov., is described from a series of male specimens from Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India. The new species is considerably distinct from other members of the tribe Hypolycaenini, and is easily distinguished from its relatives based on the following combination of characters: (a) slightly shining purple-blue upperside forewing with a dark, diffused androconial patch, (b) underside forewing apex and margin concolorous with the wing, (c) underside wings with narrow discal bands, ending in black costal spots, and (d) coastal black spot near the base.","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71206744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Description of a new species of Myelobia Herrich-Schaffer (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae s.l., Crambinae) from Nicaragua feeding on cultivated bamboo, Guadua aculeata Rupr. ex E. Fourn. (Poaceae)","authors":"B. Landry, J. Maes, S. Passoa, T. Léger","doi":"10.5962/p.266474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.266474","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71206951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peripheral eye dimensions in Longwing (Heliconius) butterflies vary with body size and sex but not light environment nor mimicry ring","authors":"B. Seymoure, W. McMillan, R. Rutowski","doi":"10.5962/p.266475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.266475","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71206963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The historical occurrence of Hesperia attalus (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) in New England","authors":"E. LoPresti, A. Warren, S. Stichter, R. Eastwood","doi":"10.5962/p.266466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.266466","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71206862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two new species and taxonomic notes on species of Moeris Godman, 1900 (Hesperiidae, Hesperiinae, Moncini)","authors":"E. Carneiro, O. Mielke, M. Casagrande","doi":"10.5962/p.266469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.266469","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71207258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A remarkable new Euptychia Hubner, 1818 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from the Amazon basin of Peru and Colombia","authors":"S. Nakahara, Jean-François. Le Crom, G. Lamas","doi":"10.5962/p.266473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.266473","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71206940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The first record of an audible sound produced by a ghost moth, Phassus (Hepialidae) from Costa Rica","authors":"L. Sandoval, K. Nishida","doi":"10.5962/p.266471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.266471","url":null,"abstract":"Sound production in lepidopteran adults has been reported in at least 13 families. The majority of these families produce ultrasonic sounds that are inaudible to humans. Here we report the first record of an audible sound produced by a Phassus sp. (Hepialidae) from Costa Rica. The sound is clicking or creaking-like, produced as the moth raises its abdomen dorsally (bending the abdomen backwards). The mechanism of this sound production is unknown, but supposed to be a case of stridulation. As the moth raised its abdomen, blue iridescence patches (likely ornamented by structural colors) on the dorsum were observed. The clicking sound is composed of two main parts which varied in frequency and duration. Inferred from the brief observation, the raising of the abdomen and sound production are possibly used for defense against natural enemies.","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71206882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arawacus euptychia (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Eumaeini) is no longer an obscure species","authors":"C. Nobre, R. Robbins","doi":"10.5962/p.332200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.332200","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71215940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolution of extreme proboscis lengths in Neotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera).","authors":"J A-S Bauder, A D Warren, H W Krenn","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Exaggerated morphologies have evolved in insects as adaptations to nectar feeding by natural selection. For example, the suctorial mouthparts of butterflies enable these insects to gain access to floral nectar concealed inside deep floral tubes. Proboscis length in Lepidoptera is known to scale with body size, but whether extreme absolute proboscis lengths of nectar feeding butterflies result from a proportional or disproportional increase with body size that differs between phylogenetic lineages remains unknown. We surveyed the range of variation that occurs in scaling relationships between proboscis length and body size against a phylogenetic background among Costa Rican Hesperiidae. We obtained a new record holder for the longest proboscis in butterflies and showed that extremely long proboscides evolved at least three times independently within Neotropical Hesperiidae. We conclude that the evolution of extremely long proboscides results from allometric scaling with body size, as demonstrated in hawk moths. We hypothesize that constraints on the evolution of increasingly long butterfly proboscides may come from (1) the underlying scaling relationships, i.e., relative proboscis length, combined with the butterfly's flight style and flower-visiting behaviour and/or (2) developmental constraints during the pupal phase. Lastly, we discuss why butterflies did not evolve similar scaling relationships as hawk moths.</p>","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"47 ","pages":"65-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/b6/b2/emss-63161.PMC4412924.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33271670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolution of extreme proboscis lengths in Neotropical Hesperiidae (Lepidoptera)","authors":"J. Bauder, A. Warren, H. Krenn","doi":"10.5962/p.332199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5962/p.332199","url":null,"abstract":"Exaggerated morphologies have evolved in insects as adaptations to nectar feeding by natural selection. For example, the suctorial mouthparts of butterflies enable these insects to gain access to floral nectar concealed inside deep floral tubes. Proboscis length in Lepidoptera is known to scale with body size, but whether extreme absolute proboscis lengths of nectar feeding butterflies result from a proportional or disproportional increase with body size that differs between phylogenetic lineages remains unknown. We surveyed the range of variation that occurs in scaling relationships between proboscis length and body size against a phylogenetic background among Costa Rican Hesperiidae. We obtained a new record holder for the longest proboscis in butterflies and showed that extremely long proboscides evolved at least three times independently within Neotropical Hesperiidae. We conclude that the evolution of extremely long proboscides results from allometric scaling with body size, as demonstrated in hawk moths. We hypothesize that constraints on the evolution of increasingly long butterfly proboscides may come from (1) the underlying scaling relationships, i.e., relative proboscis length, combined with the butterfly’s flight style and flower-visiting behaviour and/or (2) developmental constraints during the pupal phase. Lastly, we discuss why butterflies did not evolve similar scaling relationships as hawk moths.","PeriodicalId":90983,"journal":{"name":"The journal of research on the Lepidoptera","volume":"47 1","pages":"65 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71215930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}