Castnia, FABRICIUS, 1807

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 : 391

CASTNIA FABRICIUS, 1807 ( FIG. 4)

Type species

Papilio icarus Cramer, [1775]

Included species

Castnia invaria Walker, 1854 , Castnia juturna Hopffer, 1856 , Castnia lecerfi Dalla-Torre, 1913 , Castnia estherae Miller, 1976 , and Castnia fernandezi González, 1992 .

Castnia eudesmia Gray, 1838 incertae sedis.

Comments

The two species included in our analysis represent two morphologically distinct lineages. Castnia eudesmia is more closely related to the species included in Ceretes , sharing with this genus morphological attributes such as the general shape of the uncus and valva, as well as characters of the wing venation. Some characters of C. eudesmia are plesiomorphic, also related to Corybantes Hübner, [1819] .

Castnia invaria has morphological traits similar to Telchin , especially the morphology of the gnathos. For this reason the identity of the genus Castnia needs to be validated through a revisionary study including all the species.