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Hyalophora Leonis Sp. N. from Nuevo León in the Sierra Madre Oriental (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae, Attacini) ©Entomologischer Verein Apollo e.V. Frankfurt am Main; download unter www.zobodat.at Nachr. entomol. Ver. Apollo, N. F. 35 (4): 195–205 (2014) 195 A second new Hyalophora from Mexico: Hyalophora leonis sp. n. from Nuevo León in the Sierra Madre Oriental (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae, Attacini) Stefan Naumann1, Wolfgang A. Nässig2, and Guillermo Nogueira G. Dr. Stefan Naumann, Hochkirchstrasse 11, D­10829 Berlin, Germany; [email protected] Dr. Wolfgang A. Nässig, Entomologie II, Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Senckenberganlage 25, D­60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; wolfgang.naessig@ senckenberg.de Guillermo Nogueira G., c/o Escuela de Biologia, Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Av. Patria No. 1201, Lomas del Valle 3ra. Seccion, Zapopan, Jalisco, C.P. 44100, México Abstract: A new species of the genus Hyalophora, H. leonis Una segunda Hyalophora de México, nueva en su sp. n., is described. Male and female specimens from the especie: Hyalophora leonis sp. n. de Nuevo León en Me xican federal stat e of Nuevo León as well as male ge nit a­ la Sierra Madre Oriental (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae, lia are illus trat ed; a distribution map is included. The male Attacini) ho lotype is deposited in Colección Nacional de Insectos, Uni versidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Méxi co, Resumen: Se describe una nueva especie del género Hya lo- Mexico. Both sexes of the new species are known. The new pho ra, H. leonis sp. n. Se ilustra con especímenes machos y species is compared with other Hyalophora species, in clu­ hem bras de la entidad federativa de Nuevo León, México, d ing the recently described H. mexicana Nässig, No guei ra así como con los genitales machos. Además, el artículo & Naumann, 2014. The description of the new species is viene con un mapa de distribución. El holotipo macho se based on studies of imaginal morphology including male halla en la Colección Nacional de Insectos de la Univ er si­ ge nitalia and mtDNA (COI barcode). H. leonis sp. n. is a dad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México, me di um­sized to large species within the ge nus. It is unique Mé xi co. Ambos sexos de la nueva especie son conocidos. La in the genus by the combination of its carmine red ground nue va especie se compara con otras especies de Hya lo pho ra, colour, the relatively wide white ante­ and postmedian lines incluyendo la recientemente descrita H. mexicana Näs sig, and marginal area, the small, somewhat rounded fore wing Nogueira & Naumann, 2014. La descripción de la nue va ocellular patches in combination with drop­like patc hes of especie está basada en el estudio de la morfología ima gi­ the hindwing, the huge blue portion of the subapical ocel­ nal que incluye los genitales del macho así como ADNmt lus, the striking white tufts on both male and female abdo­ (có digo de barras COI). H. leonis sp. n. es una especie de men; and in male genitalia the shape of the valves, espe ci al ly ta ma ño medio hasta grande dentro del género. Es única the ventral part, appears to be diagnostic. In addition, some en su gé nero por la combinación de su rojo carmín como other problems in Hyalophora are discussed. color de base, sus líneas blancas ante y posmedianas y área marginal relativamente anchas. Asimismo, es única por las Keywords: Hyalophora leonis sp. n., Mexico, Nuevo León, pequeñas manchas ocelares algo redondas situadas en las Coa huila, Sierra Madre Oriental. alas an te rio res en combinación con las manchas go ti for mes en las alas posteriores así como por la gran parte de azul en Eine zweite neue Hyalophora aus Mexiko: Hyalophora el oce lo subapical y los impresionantes mechones blan cos en leonis sp. n. aus Nuevo León in der Sierra Madre Oriental (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae, Attacini) el abdomen, tanto de los machos como de las hem bras. La forma de las válvulas en los genitales machos, espe cial men te Zusammenfassung: Es wird eine neue Art der Gattung en la parte ventral, parece ser diagnóstica. Ade más, el ar tí­ Hya lo phora, H. leonis sp. n., beschrieben. Männchen und culo trata de otros aspectos de Hyalophora. Weib­­chen aus dem mexikanischen Bundesstaat Nuevo León sowie männliche Genitalien werden abgebildet; dazu ei ne Verbreitungskarte. Der männliche Holotypus befindet sich Introduction in der Colección Nacional de Insectos, Uni versidad Na cio­ nal Autónoma de México, Ciudad Méxi co, Mexiko. Beide The genus Hyalophora Duncan, 1841 is a genus of north Gesc hlecht er der neuen Art sind bekannt. Sie wird ver gli­ American Attacini which, according to actual li te ra ture chen mit anderen Hyalophora­Arten einschließlich der kürz­ (e.g., Ferguson 1972, Lemaire 1978, 1996, Tus kes et al. lich neubeschriebenen H. mexicana Nässig, No guei ra & 1996, Collins 1997, Powell & Opler 2009, Nässig et al. Naumann, 2014. Die Beschreibung basiert auf Studien der 2014), presentl y contains four generally ac cepted species: Imagines und der männlichen Genitalmorphologie sowie dem COI­„Barcode“ der mtDNA. H. leonis sp. n. ist eine mit­ • Hyalophora cecropia (Linnaeus, 1758) in the eastern telgroße bis große Art der Gattung. Sie zeichnet sich aus and central area of the US and Canada. durch die Kombination folgender Merkmale: die teilweise kar minrote Grundfarbe der Flügel mit den recht breiten • H. columbia (S. I. Smith, 1865) with two (or more) wei ßen Ante­ und Postmedianlinien sowie dem Mar gi nal­ so­called sub species, H. columbia columbia (and per­ feld, eher gerundete Vorderflügelaugenflecken zusammen haps H. c. no ko mis (Brodie, 1894)?) in central to east­ mit fast tropfenförmigen Flecken auf den Hinterflügeln, ern Ca na da and H. c. gloveri (Strecker, 1872) in the dem großen Anteil blauer Schuppen im Vorderflügel­Sub­ Rocky Mount ains/Great Basin area; this latter tax on api kal ocel lus, den auffälligen weißen Haarbüscheln auf dem Hin ter leib beider Geschlechter, sowie im männlichen was listed as a separate species by Ferguson (1972), Genital der Val venform, insbesondere ventral. Dazu werden with a red “form” in southern Arizona (Fer gu son 1972: einige wei te re Probleme bei Hyalophora diskutiert. 257, Peigler & Opler 1993, Powell & Op ler 2009: 241). 1 Research Associate of the Natural History Museum (Museum für Natur kun de, ZMHU), Berlin, Germany. 2 84th contribution to the knowledge of the Saturniidae (83th contribution: Nässig, W. A., Nogueira G., G., & Naumann, S. (2014): A new spe cies of the genus Hyalophora Duncan, 1841 from Central Me xico (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae, At ta c i ni). — Journal of Re search on the Le pi do pte ra, 47: 49–63). © 2014 by Entomologischer Verein Apollo e. V., Frankfurt am Main ©Entomologischer Verein Apollo e.V. Frankfurt am Main; download unter www.zobodat.at 196 • H. euryalus (Boisduval, 1855) [= rubra Neumoegen & 600 base pairs (bp) long. Shorter se quences as well as Dyar, 1894] in the West, primarily along the Pa cific those from specimens of doubtful origin (especially most Coast (Peigler & Opler 1993, Tuskes et al. 1996), possible hybrids from reared spe­­ci mens) were discarded. with probably a subspecies on Cedros Island, Baja For further details, see in Näs sig et al. (2014). California, Mexico. Populations in the interior of We believe, in accordance with, e.g., Zwick (2009: 148), British Columbia, Canada, and in the Bitt erroot Mts. that the preservation of the undistorted three­dimen sio­ of Idaho and Montana (USA), named as subspecies n al structure of the genitalia is essential for the under ­ kas loensis Cockerell [in Packard 1914], have usual ly stan ding of their function. Here, we tried to photograph been treated as a hybrid inter grade between eurya lus the genitalia from a genital in fluid (70% ethanol). and gloveri (Sweadner 1937, Tus kes et al. 1996, Col­ lins 1997, 2007), or alter nativ el y as a subspecies of Abbreviations used euryalus (e.g., Ferguson 1972). BC Barcode [no.]. The fourth species was described recently: CCMC Collection Carlos C. G. Mielke, Curitiba, Brazil. • H. mexicana Nässig, Nogueira G. & Nau mann, 2014 CDHP Collection Daniel Herbin, Pechabou, France. from the Sierra Madre Occidental (Feder al States of CMNH Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA, Zacatecas and Guanajuato) in Central Mexico. USA. CRRR Collection Rodolphe Rougerie, Rouen, France. These four species are rather closely related, and, for the north ern species, most au thors agree that local hy bri di­ CSNB Collection Stefan Naumann, Berlin, Germany, now part of the Rainer Seegers Foundation, to be in cor po rat ed in sa tion and introgression often occur s in areas where they ZMHU Berlin. meet naturally (Tus kes et al. 1996, Collins 1997, 2007, Collins & Rawlins 2014). This aspect is not yet studied fw. Forewing. for the Mexican species. fwl. Forewing length; measured from base to tip of apex; all measurements right specimen side. In our recent paper (Nässig et al. 2014) we discussed GP Genitalia dissection [no.]. our results indicating a more complex structure of the HT Holotype. genus (with possibly more than these 4 species). Also, hw. Hindwing. we cited some specimens from northeastern (or eastern hwl. Hindwing length; measured from base to the most dis­ central) Mexico (especially from the Sierre Madre Orien­ tant part of the hw. margin. tal, in the federal states of Nue vo León and Coahuila, see IBUNAM In sti tuto de Biología (Colección Nacional de In sec tos), map in Fig. 1) received onl y recently during the time of Uni ver si dad Na cio nal Au tó no ma de México, Ciu dad sub mis sion and revision of the ma nu script of our 2014 Mé xi co (Mexico City), Mexico.
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