Scea servula Warren Plate, 1901

Miller, James S, 2009, Generic Revision Of The Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 2: Josiini, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2009 (321), pp. 675-1022 : 850-851

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1206/321.1-1
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scientific name	Scea servula Warren Plate
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Scea servula Warren Plate View in CoL 35

Scea servula Warren, 1901: 443 View in CoL .

TYPE LOCALITY: Colombia, Río Dagua. TYPE: Syntype ♀ ( BMNH).

DISCUSSION: Scea servula (pl. 35) bears wing-pattern resemblance to S. superba (pl. 34). In both species, the only black veins within the orange FW triangle are the cubitus and radius, framing the DC. The moths are also similar in size. However, genital morphology does not indicate a particularly close relationship within Scea . Furthermore, the two species occur on opposite sides of the Andes. The majority of S. servula specimens were collected on the western slope of the Colombian Andes, but a single female in the F. Piñas Collection was captured at Pululahua (2900 m) in northwestern Ecuador.

Prout’s (1918) name steinbachi , from Tucumán, Argentina, which he described as a subspecies of S. servula , is here raised to species status (see below). This result is not surprising considering the distance separating their type localities.

DISTRIBUTION: Colombia (AMNH, BMNH, USNM) ; Ecuador (FPC).

DISSECTED: ³, Colombia, leg. Fassl, USNM (genitalia slide no. JSM-560 ) ; ♀, Colombia, leg. Fassl, USNM (genitalia slide no. JMS-561) .