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— Oospila poirieri n. sp. – 3 and 4, Male genitalia and aedeagus, holotype. – 2, Female genitalia, paratype. Photos : © Antoine LÉVÊQUE (3 and 4), Jaan VIIDALEPP (5).
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A new species of the genus Oospila Warren, 1897, from French Guiana is described. Oospila poirieri n. sp. belongs to the includaria group but the wing markings and genitalia are distinctive from those of two other species in this group, O. includaria (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855) and O. leucothalera (Prout, 1932), and also from those of O. venezuelata (...
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... Cook & Scoble (1995, in their revision of Oospila, concluded that the morphological differences given for the genera listed above are inconsistent and subtle, and synonymized eight genera with Oospila Warren. Pitkin (1996) adopted this combination and Viidalepp (2002), Lévêque and Viidalepp (2015) and Lindt and Viidalepp (2015) described three additional species. Despite the thorough revision of Oospila by Cook & Scoble (1995), many cryptic species appear to have been overlooked; this is a common occurrence in large-scale works (Vodă et al. 2014). ...
... The number of described species of the genus Oospila Warren, 1897 (Cook & Scoble 1995;Lévêque & Viidalepp 2015;Lindt & Viidalepp 2015) is increased from 76 to 88, including nine newly described species and three taxa raised to species rank. The DNA barcoding data on the BOLD database for 570 congeneric specimens reveal 102 BIN-concordant barcode clusters with an accumulation curve that suggests saturation beyond 130 BINs, which are a good proxy for the real number of species in this genus. ...
... The abdominal tufts are whitish and almost fused to a dorsal line, but thinner and more vague than in O. pallidaria which has similar tufts. The costa and sacculus of male genitalia are connected by a thin membrane while all other Oospila species (except O. poirieri Lévêque & Viidalepp, 2015 and O. falcata sp. nov, described below) have a well-defined valvula in male genitalia. ...
The Neotropical geometrine genus Oospila Warren, 1897 includes seventy-nine species and was revised by Cook & Scoble (1995). The genus is distinctive in having a row of raised abdominal crests, which are composed of specialized, erect, metallic shining scales. This paper focuses on the integrative morphological and molecular delimitation of the smallest Oospila species. The wing patterns and genitalia structures of males and females are illustrated. Cook & Scoble (1995) distinguished 13 species groups within Oospila. We discuss the species of the Oospila flavilimes species group, the O. stigma species group and O. miccularia species group below, and separate the O. arpata species complex into a group of its own. Nine new species and two new subspecies are described in this paper: O. cristae sp. n. from Ecuador, O. falcata sp. n. from French Guiana, O. pallidaria boliviensis subsp. n. from Bolivia, and O. loreenae sp. n. from Bolivia (flavilimes species group), O. ehakernae sp. n. from Costa Rica, O. similiplaga bolarpata subsp. n. from Bolivia (arpata species group), O. brehmi sp. n. and O. bifida sp. n. both from Bolivia, O. moseri sp. n. from Brazil, O. absaloni sp. n. and O. pipa sp. n. both from Ecuador (miccularia species group). Oospila similiplaga (Warren) (stat. nov.) is raised here from synonymy with O. arpata (Schaus) and O. imula (Dognin) from synonymy with O. miccularia (Guenée), respectively. Oospila agnetaforslundae nom. nov. is proposed as a replacement name for Oospila marginata Schaus, 1912 (nec Oospila marginata Warren, 1897), raising it to species rank from synonymy of Oospila permagna (Warren, 1909). With this paper, the number of Neotropical Oospila species is raised to 88.
The subfamily Geometrinae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), commonly known as emerald moths, is an ecologically diverse group of moths with over 2,500 described species. Many taxonomic and phylogenetic studies of Geometrinae have been undertaken in the past decade, resulting in hundreds of new taxonomic changes since online publication of the most recent checklist in December 2007.
This review synthesises the last 12 years of alpha-taxonomic research in Geometrinae. A comprehensive list of Geometrinae genus- and species-group descriptions, synonymies, combinations and other taxonomic changes, made since 2007, is provided. Since 2007, the known species richness of Geometrinae has increased from 2,529 to 2,642 species; an updated list of all these species is presented in a supplementary spreadsheet.
Second contribution to the elaboration of a taxonomic checklist of geometrid moths from French Guiana: the species of the genus Oospila Warren, 1897. As part of the elaboration of the national taxonomic checklist (TAXREF), managed by the MNHN in Paris, a list of species of the genus Oospila recorded in French Guiana is given for the first time. It includes thirty-four species to date and their synonyms, but it is likely that other taxa will enrich it; indeed, the inventory of geometrid moths from French Guiana is still far from completed. The presence of these species in French Guiana is based partly on records published in 1995 by Cook and Scoble in their revision of the genus, partly on personal determinations of photographed or mounted specimens made by the author. This work is the second in a series intended to gradually build a reference list of Geometridae from French Guiana.
