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Revision of “Aemilia” pagana Species-Group (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae), with a Description of a New Endemic Species and Comments on the Conservation Status

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A taxonomical rearrangement of “Aemilia” pagana species-group is proposed: Leucanopsis pagana (Schaus in Proc Zool Soc London 1894:225–243, 1894) comb. nov. and L. ninae (Orfila in Rev Soc Entomol Argent 21:67–70, 1959) comb. nov. A new endemic species from Pampa de Achala, Córdoba, Argentina, closer to both species, is described: Leucanopsis navarroi sp. nov. These three species can be recognized because the color pattern is the darkest among species of Leucanopsis. Characteristics of male genitalia suggest the nomenclatural rearrangement proposed. Leucanopsis pagana comb. nov. has a wide distribution from the center of Brazil to northeastern Argentina, including southern Paraguay. The known distribution and geospatial analysis suggest that this species is not in danger. Leucanopsis ninae comb. nov. is restricted to only one known locality (Villa Gesell, Buenos Aires). The restricted known distribution, the different land use practices, and geospatial analysis suggest that this species could be endangered. Leucanopsis navarroi sp. nov. is endemic to the high plateau present in the center of Argentina called Pampa de Achala. The known distribution and geospatial analysis suggest that this species could be endangered. Further studies are necessary to determine effectively the conservation status of these three species.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to APN (Administración de Parques Nacionales) and forest rangers of Quebrada del Condorito National Park who allowed us to collect, to Raúl Müller and Francisco Ludueña-Almeida for helping us in managing field samples, to Arturo Roig Alsina for authorizing access to the holotype of L. ninae deposited in MACN, and to Analía Lanteri for giving permission to access the specimens of L. ninae deposited in MLP. The authors are grateful to Benoit Vincent, who kindly sent us photos of adult and male genitalia of A. rubriplaga to compare with these specimens; to Marcelo Duarte da Silva and Alfred Moser who kindly sent us photos of the specimens of L. pagana deposited in the MZUSP and MC; to Vitor Becker who kindly sent us information about specimens of L. pagana deposited in his collection; and to Viviane Ferro and José Teston for the information L. pagana. Dra. Cecilia Saleme (Fac. Filosofía y Letras, UNT) for reading and correcting the manuscript. We also thank to two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on the manuscript. Neotropical Grassland Conservancy (NGC) provided a grant for field equipment.

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    H M Beccacece, M E Drewniak & A I Zapata

  2. Centro de Investigaciones Entomológicas de Córdoba, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas y Tecnológicas (IIByT), UNC-Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET), Av. Vélez Sársfield 1611, Zip Code 5016, Córdoba, Argentina

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Beccacece, H.M., San Blas, G., Drewniak, M.E. et al. Revision of “Aemilia” pagana Species-Group (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae), with a Description of a New Endemic Species and Comments on the Conservation Status. Neotrop Entomol 47, 852–862 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-018-0593-8

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