ZOBODAT - www.zobodat.at Zoologisch-Botanische Datenbank/Zoological-Botanical Database Digitale Literatur/Digital Literature Zeitschrift/Journal: Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny Jahr/Year: 2017 Band/Volume: 75 Autor(en)/Author(s): Simonsen Thomas J., Kristensen Nils Peter Artikel/Article: Revision of the endemic Brazilian ‘neotheorid’ hepialids, with morphological evidence for the phylogenetic relationships of the basal lineages of Hepialidae (Lepidoptera: Hepialoidea) 281-301 75 (2): 281 – 301 8.9.2017 © Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, 2017. Revision of the endemic Brazilian ‘neotheorid’ hepialids, with morphological evidence for the phylogenetic rela tionships of the basal lineages of Hepialidae (Lepido ptera: Hepialoidea) Thomas J. Simonsen *, 1, 2 & Niels P. Kristensen 3, # 1 Natural History Museum Aarhus, Wilhelm Meyers Allé 10, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; Thomas J. Simonsen * [
[email protected]] — 2 Natural History Museum London, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, United Kingdom — 3 Natural History Museum of Denmark (Zoology), Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark — * Corresponding author # This study was initiated as a collaborative effort between the authors in 2011. Sadly, Niels P. Kristensen passed away December 06, 2014, before the manuscript could be completed. He had, however, completed an extensive draft of the taxonomic sections of the text. It therefore seems most fitting that he remains first author of the names proposed here. Accepted 02.v.2017. Published online at www.senckenberg.de/arthropod-systematics on 30.viii.2017. Editors in charge: Ulrike Aspöck & Klaus-Dieter Klass Abstract We revise the little known South American primitive Hepialidae genus Neotheora Kristensen, and describe two new species, N. meyi sp.n. and N.