Yagra, OITICICA, 1955

Moraes, Simeão De Souza & Duarte, Marcelo, 2014, Phylogeny of Neotropical Castniinae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Castniidae): testing the hypothesis of the mimics as a monophyletic group and implications for the arrangement of the genera, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170 (2), pp. 362-399 : 394-395

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12102
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10541690
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scientific name	Yagra
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Treatment

YAGRA OITICICA, 1955 View in CoL ( FIG. 30)

Type species

Castnia dalmannii Gray, 1838

Included species

Yagra fonscolombe (Godart, [1824]) and Yagra dalmannii ( Gray, 1838) .

Comments

This group was the subject of a recent revisionary study ( Moraes et al., 2011), which showed that the species have distinctive characters that corroborate the genus status: (i) discal band extending to M 2 (19: 2); (ii) subterminal part of aedeagus wall with spines implanted on a sclerotized plate (35: 1); (iii) valva with a tooth-like corona near the posterior margin (57: 1); and (iv) eighth tergite in females with the lateral margin sinuous (109: 3).

The following genera were not included in this analysis because of a lack of material, and for this reason we maintained the species in the nominative genus, with no taxonomic modification.

Insigniocastnia Miller, 2007

Included species: Insigniocastnia taisae Miller, 2007 . Mirocastnia Miller, 1980 View in CoL

Included species: Mirocastnia canis ( Lathy, 1923) , Mirocastnia pyrrhopygoides ( Houlbert, 1917) , and Mirocastnia smalli Miller, 1980 .

References

Gray GR. 1838. Synopsis of the species belonging to the genus Castnia. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2: 140 - 149.

Houlbert C. 1917. Diagnoses de Castnies nouvelles et rectification de quelques noms indument employes. Etudes de Lepidopterologie Comparee 13: 49 - 85.

Lathy PI. 1923. Further notes on the Castniinae in the Collection of Madame Gaston Fournier (Lepidoptera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12: 223 - 227.

Miller JY. 1980. Studies in the Castniidae III. Mirocastnia. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 60: 1 - 15.

Miller JY. 2007. Studies in the Castniidae IV. Description of a new genus, Insigniocastnia. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 145: 1 - 7.

Moraes SS, Duarte M, Miller JY. 2011. Revision of the Neotropical genus Yagra Oiticica (Lepidoptera: Castniidae). Journal of Natural History 45: 1511 - 1531.

Oiticica J. 1955. Revisao dos nomes genericos sul-americanos da subfamilia Castniinae (Lepidoptera Castniidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 3: 137 - 167.