Taygetis servius Weymer, 1910

Siewert, Ricardo Russo, Zacca, Thamara, Dias, Fernando Maia Silva, Freitas, Andre Victor Lucci, Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik & Casagrande, Mirna Martins, 2013, The " Taygetis ypthima species group " (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae): taxonomy, variation and description of a new species, ZooKeys 356, pp. 11-29 : 18-19

Taygetis servius Weymer, 1910 stat. n. Figs 4 A–D, 6P-T; 7 G–H

Examined material.

BRAZIL - Bahia: Jitaúna - 26-III-1969, 2 males and 2 females, Ebert leg., ex-coll. Ebert, DZ 26.424, DZ 27.440, DZ 27.396, DZ 27. 386 (DZUP). Espírito Santo: Baixo Guandú - 10-IV-1970, 1 male, Elias leg., DZ 26.806 (DZUP).

Diagnosis.

Taygetis servius stat. n. can be distinguished from Taygetis fulginia stat. r. and Taygetis rectifascia by the following characters: forewing rounded at the apex; dorsal wings light brown without any suffused dark brown bands along the outer margin; ventral hind wing with the proximal border of the submarginal band and post discal line straight and regular, forming a 2 mm wide creamy white fascia. The base of the gnathos presents a pointed ventral projection, as in Taygetis rectifascia and Taygetis fulginia , but differs from Taygetis rectifascia by the absence of the claw-shaped bifid valva apex, and from Taygetis fulginia by its stouter valva, with a shorter but wider distal projection of the valva. In additional, Taygetis servius is considerably smaller than the other species treated in the present paper.

Distribution

(Fig. 8). Taygetis servius is known from Baixo Guandú ( Espírito Santo), and from Jitaúna (Bahia). It should also be present in Minas Gerais (see below).

Taxonomic comments.

Taygetis servius stat. n. was described from an unknown number of specimens from Minas Gerais, Brazil, as a form of Taygetis rectifascia (Weymer, 1910: 187). Although clearly recognized as such, the illustration of Taygetis servius (Weymer, 1910: pl. 46, fig. c [3]) is placed in another plate, separated from the rest of the illustrations of Taygetis rectifascia and its forms (Weymer 1910: pl. 45, fig. a [1-2]). The description and the illustration matches exactly a series of five specimens from the states of Espírito Santo and Bahia, Brazil, deposited at the DZUP. Wing shape and pattern, also acknowledged by Weymer, and examination of the genitalia confirms it as a distinct species. The type specimen (or specimens) of Taygetis servius is missing, however, type specimens of other species of Taygetis described by Weymer in the same fascicle of Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde are housed at the SMT and ZSM collections (i.e. Taygetis mermeria f. crameri (Weymer, 1910), at SMT, and Taygetina banghaasi (Weymer, 1910), at ZSM). However, previous and recent searches for type specimens carried out by G. Lamas, O.H.H. Mielke and the curators of the above cited collections did not produce any specimens ( Nekrutenko 2001).