Callipia constantinaria, Oberthur, 1881, Oberthur, 1881

Brehm, Gunnar, 2018, Revision of the genus Callipia Guenée, 1858 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae), with the description of 15 new taxa, European Journal of Taxonomy 404, pp. 1-54 : 21

The constantinaria group

The six known members of the constantinaria group are easily recognised by their wing patterns: brown coloured with large deep yellow blotches on the forewing. Male valves are overall similar as in the parrhasiata group; the aedeagus is straight and slender without cornuti. The male genitalia within the group are rather similar and appear to be of little use for the diagnosis of species. C. occulta stat. rev. and C. hiltae sp. nov. form a cryptic species complex that can reliably only be distinguished by DNA barcoding. Species are distributed from Colombia to northern Argentina ( Fig. 2c ).

Figures

Fig. 2. Distribution maps. A. The balteata group and Callipia paradisea Thierry-Mieg, 1904. B. The vicinaria group. C. The constantinaria group. D. The parrhasiata group. More details can be retrieved from a Google Earth kml file (Supplementary File 3).