Stamnodes splendorata Pearsall, 1909

Matson, Tanner A., 2023, A review of Mexican Stamnodes (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) with the description of 16 new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 911, pp. 1-79 : 19

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Stamnodes splendorata Pearsall, 1909 View in CoL

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Stamnodes splendorata Pearsall, 1909b: 367 View in CoL . Type locality: Palmerlee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA. [AMNH].

Stamnodes splendorata View in CoL – McDunnough 1938: 151 (checklist). — Ferguson 1983: 103 (checklist). — Furniss et al. 1988: 9. — Poole & Gentili 1996: 686 (checklist). — Scoble 1999: 903 (catalogue). — Knudson & Bordelon 2002: 7–8. — Scoble & Hausmann 2007 (online catalogue). — Pohl et al. 2016: 448 (checklist). — Rajaei et al. 2022 (online catalogue).

Distribution

Mexico: Stamnodes splendorata inhabits the pine-oak forests of the Sierra Madre Occidental, with records also spanning the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt to at least the state of Hidalgo . USA: this species can also be found in the Madrean sky islands of southeast Arizona eastward to the Davis Mountains of West Texas.

Biology

The life history of S. splendorata is unpublished, but the host plant is likely an herbaceous mint ( Lamiaceae ). The host is hypothesized from phylogeny (Matson & Wagner in prep.) as this species sits squarely among many mint-feeding Stamnodes . Adult collections are centered around a single late July- August flight.

Molecular characterization

The USNM houses a single aberrant specimen from 5 miles east of Tulancingo, Hidalgo (BOLD Process ID: LNAUX434-18; GenBank: OP898486). This individual is lighter in colour and its barcode differs from that of Arizona ( USA) specimens by two percent; however, only 307 of the 658 barcode nucleotides were successfully sequenced. The Hidalgo population warrants future study, but until then, the sequenced individual and its parent population will be considered conspecific with those to the north. This species is represented in BOLD as BIN: BOLD:AAV8865 (n = 2, partial sequences excluded). At present, the average pairwise intraspecific distance is 0.71%.

References

Ferguson D. C. 1983. Geometridae. In: Hodges R. W., Dominick T., Davis D. R., Ferguson D. C., Franclemont J. G., Munroe E. G. & Powell J. A. (eds) Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico: 88 - 107. EW Classey Ltd. & The Wedge Entomological Research Foundation, London.

Furniss M. M., Ferguson D. C., Voget K. W., Burkhardt J. W. & Tiedemann A. R. 1988. Taxonomy, life history, and ecology of a mountain-mahogany defoliator, Stamnodes animata (Pearsall), in Nevada. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fish Wildlife Research 3: 1 - 26.

Knudson E. & Bordelon C. 2002. The Stamnodini (Geometridae: Larentiinae) of Texas. News of the Lepidopterists' Society 44 (1): 7 - 8.

McDunnough J. H. 1938. Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of America, Part 1, Macrolepidoptera. Memoirs of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 1: 3 - 272. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 146941

Pearsall R. F. 1909 b. The geometrid genus Stamnodes Guenee. The Canadian Entomologist 41 (10): 366 - 368. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 41366 - 10

Pohl G. R., Patterson B. & Pelham J. P. 2016. Annotated Taxonomic Checklist of the Lepidoptera of North America, North of Mexico. Working paper published online by the authors at ResearchGate. net https: // doi. org / 10.13140 / RG. 2.1.2186.3287

Poole R. W. & Gentili P. (eds) 1996. Nomina Insecta Nearctica. A Check List of the Insects of North America. Vol. 3: Diptera, Lepidoptera, Siphonaptera. Entomological Information Services, Rockville.

Rajaei H., Hausmann A., Scoble M., Wanke D., Plotkin D., Brehm G., Murillo-Ramos L. & Sihvonen P. 2022. An online taxonomic facility of Geometridae (Lepidoptera), with an overview of global species richness and systematics. Integrative Systematics 5 (2): 145 - 192. https: // doi. org / 10.18476 / 2022.577933

Scoble M. J. 1999. Geometrid Moths of the World: A Catalogue. Vols 1 & 2. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood. https: // doi. org / 10.1071 / 9780643101050

Scoble M. J. & Hausmann A. 2007. Online list of valid and available names of the Geometridae of the World. Available from http: // www. herbulot. de / globalspecieslist. htm [accessed 20 Aug. 2022].

Figures

Figs 1–10. Adult Stamnodes Guenée, [1858], dorsal (a) and ventral (b) views. 1. S. aumatlapalli sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (USNMENT01523813). 2. S. cannonaria (Schaus, 1927), holotype, ♂ (USNMENT01771251), photo credit NMNH type search (https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/ento/). 3. S. penguinifera (Dyar, 1910) (USNMENT01521263). 4. S. clara sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (AMNH_IZC 00353930).5.S.?claraaberration (EMEC1748437).6. S. carotasp. nov.,holotype, ♀(BMEC). 7. S.favilla sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (USNMENT00868520). 8. S. fuego sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (USNMENT01771229). 9. S. matrona sp. nov., holotype, ♂ (EMEC1748430). 10. S. splendorata Pearsall, 1909 (DLW). Scale bar = 1 cm.

Fig. 94. COI neighbour-joining tree for Mexican Stamnodes Guenée, [1858] using default Kimura-2P model in the Barcode of Life Project (BOLD). Taxon names followed by BOLD Process ID.

Fig. 95. Biogeographic associations of Mexican Stamnodes Guenée, [1858]. (*) denotes species found in two or more provinces. Underlying biogeographic provincial map taken from Morrone (2020: fig. 4.5) with permission to reproduce this figure granted by author Juan J. Morrone.