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Based on an exhaustive review of the bibliography, and consultation of entomological collections around the world, we present an illustrated catalog with 16 Castniidae taxa present in Costa Rica. Corybantes veraguana veraguana (Westwood, 1877) is recorded for the first time in the country and new records are reported for rare and little-known speci...
A new record of the rare species Mirocastnia pyrrhopygoides (Houlbert) from Ecuador is reported, along with range extensions for M. smalli (J. Y. Miller) and M. canis (Lathy). In addition, the genus Mirocastnia J.Y. Miller is revised and the diagnostic phenotypic characteristics of males and females, as well as male genitalia, are illustrated. Deta...
Zegara fernandezi (González, 1992) (Castniidae, Castniinae) is a little-known butterfly-moth due to its rarity. New evidence provides information about its habitat, linked to the summits of some table mountains of the Pantepui; several specimens collected to date are illustrated showing remarkable polymorphism, as well as its southern Venezuelan di...
The genera Amauta Houlbert, 1918 and Divana J.Y. Miller, 1982 are revised, with discussion of diagnostic features of males and females of all taxa. Details on their nomenclatural history, biogeography, and biology are included to solve several nomenclatural issues. Lectotypes are designated for Castnia (Amauta) papilionaris affinis Rothschild, 1919...
Mexico is the Mesoamerican country with the highest number of Castniidae species (12), most of which are found in the dry regions of the country. Among these, Athis hechtiae (Dyar, 1910) was considered a species widely distributed in Mexico after Athis miastagma (Dyar, 1925) was synonymized with A. hechtiae over two decades ago. A genetic and morph...
A new lectotype designation by Korb (2013) for Colias hyale sareptensis Alphéraky, 1875 is rejected and the previous lectotype designation by Grieshuber, Worthy & Lamas (2006) reinstated.
It is proposed that two little-known species of Castniidae which have been traditionally assigned to the genus Athis Hūbner belong to other genera; in addition, both have been found to have better-known junior synonyms. The statuses of the following taxa have been revised in this work: Castnia amalthaea H. Druce comb. rest., Castnia lecerfi Dalla T...
The Institute of Natural Sciences of Colombia's National University, Bogotá is a repository of objects and organisms that are part of the general and natural history of this megadiverse South American country. During a recent curation of moths deposited in the entomology collection of the museum we came across a small group of giant butterfly-moths...
The giant butterfly-moths (Castniidae: Castniinae) are distributed in the Neotropics from Mexico, throughout Central America, down to South America reaching Argentina and Chile. Among the highly diverse genera, Haemonides Hübner is particularly striking due to the white or cream ground colour of their wings outlined with black margins which give it...
New records of Synpalamides phalaris (Fabricius, 1793) (Lepidoptera: Castniidae), collected from Venezuela, one of them from the Orinoco Delta, are presented. A brief historical account, brief description, comparison with specimens from other South American regions, natural history notes and illustrations are included.
