Mirocastnia Miller, 1980

García-Díaz, José De Jesús, Espinoza-Sanabria, Bernardo A., Worthy, Robert, González, Jorge M., Janzen, Daniel H. & Hallwachs, Winnie, 2024, Synopsis of the Castniidae (Lepidoptera) of Costa Rica, Zootaxa 5481 (2), pp. 151-202 : 167

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5481.2.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:547F19D4-4558-4D8A-8D01-2ECCCB133A5D
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12749664
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2F6D87D4-3241-FFCA-FF4B-3C9CC4FBFF4E
treatment provided by	Plazi (2024-07-16 10:37:07, last updated 2024-11-24 23:25:40)
scientific name	Mirocastnia Miller, 1980
status

Treatment

V. Mirocastnia Miller, 1980 View in CoL

A genus distributed in Central and South America (throughout the Andean region) that includes small species similar to some Hesperiidae , including the tuft of “hairs” at the end of the abdomen (a peculiarity of the subfamily Pyrrhopyginae ); as well as a wing pattern similar to skipper genera such as Autochton Hübner, 1823 , Celaenorrhinus Hübner, [1819] and Paches Godman & Salvin, 1895 ( Miller 1980, 1986; Vinciguerra 2008). Three species were recognized until recently: Mirocastnia canis (Lathy, 1923) , M. pyrrhopygoides (Houlbert, 1917) , and M. smalli Miller, 1980 ( Miller 1980, 1986, 1995; Lamas 1995; Vinciguerra 2008; Moraes & Duarte 2014). Little is known about the ecology of this genus, which is poorly represented in entomological collections. With more specimens available, the taxonomic status, however, has been changed recently and all of the above-mentioned taxa are now considered subspecies of M. pyrrhopygoides ( González et al. 2024) .

References

Gonzalez, J. M., Thony, H. & Worthy, R. (2024) A review of the genus Mirocastnia J. Y. Miller 1980 (Lepidoptera: Castniidae) with records of recently collected specimens. Zootaxa, 5418 (3), 240 - 254. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 5418.3.3

Lamas, G. (1995) A critical review of J. Y. Miller´s checklist of the Neotropical Castniidae (Lepidoptera). Revista Peruana de Entomologia, 37, 73 - 87.

Miller, J. Y. (1980) Studies in the Castniidae III. Mirocastnia. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum, 60, 1 - 15.

Miller, J. Y. (1986) The Taxonomy, Phylogeny, and Zoogeography of the Neotropical Castniidae (Lepidoptera: Castnoidea: Castniidae), Ph. D. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, 571 pp.

Miller, J. Y. (1995) Castniidae. In: Heppner, J. B. (Ed.), Checklist: Part 2. Hyblaeoidea-Pyraloidea-Tortricoidea. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Association for Tropical Lepidoptera / Scientific Publishers, Gainesville, Florida, pp. 133 - 137 + 176 - 177.

Moraes, S. & Duarte, M. (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), 362 - 399. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / zoj. 12102

Vinciguerra, R. (2008) Osservazioni su alcuni taxa dei generi: Corybantes Hubner, [1819], Athis Hubner, [1819], Zegara Oiticica, 1955, Mirocastnia Miller, 1980 e Insigniocastnia Miller, 2007 (Lepidoptera: Castniidae). SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterologia, 36 (144), 491 - 499.