Pariana sp.

Duerr, Nathan, Corahua-Espinoza, Thalia, Baine, Quinlyn, Tejeira, Rafael, Ccahuana, Rodrigo, Espinoza, María Mercedes Del Castillo, Perlett, Eric, Cervantes-Martínez, Joselin Nidia, Santillana, Alexandra Liza, See, Joseph, Soto-Quispe, Yulisa Sari, Wood, Halle, Arteaga, Zunilda Escalante & Gallice, Geoffrey, 2022, Immature stages, new host plant records and shelter structures of Troyus phyllides (Röber, 1925) and Thoon ponka Evans, 1955 in the Peruvian Amazon (Lepidoptera Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae: Hesperiini), Zootaxa 5200 (4), pp. 372-390 : 383

Pariana sp.

( Poaceae : Bambusoideae : Olyreae ) ( Figs. 6a–c )

The host plant for a single individual of Thoon ponka (2021-FLP-IMM-0533) was an unidentified species of herbaceous bamboo in the genus Pariana . In the study area, this Pariana sp. grows generally at the forest edge, and occasionally in light gaps within the forest (always near the forest edge). The particular individual where the egg was found was located in the forest vegetation bordering a Mauritia palm swamp in a considerably open area. On the date the egg was collected, the plant height was 0.7 m. The egg was found 0.7 m above the ground situated on the abaxial surface of the middle part of the leaf blade, between the margin and the midrib.

Figures

FIGURE 6. The host plants, Pariana sp. and Pariana lunata, and illustrations of the shelter structures of each immature stage of Thoon ponka: a) close-up view of Pariana sp. stem; b) small Pariana sp. plant; c) Pariana sp. plants in situ; d) view of Pariana lunata leaves with inflorescence; e) close-up view of inflorescence; f) Pariana lunata plant in situ; g) shelter structure during the first instar; h) shelter structure during the second and third instars; i) shelter structure during the fourth instar; j) shelter structure during the fifth instar.