Carales fasciatus (Rothschild, 1909) Rothschild, 1909

Beccacece, Hernán Mario & Zapata, Adriana Inés, 2017, Taxonomic changes of some neotropical species of Arctiini Leach (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae), Zootaxa 4272 (3), pp. 421-429 : 424

Carales fasciatus (Rothschild, 1909) comb. n.

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Rothschild (1909b: 228) describes Opharus fasciatus based on a female holotype from Valencia [Carabobo], Venezuela, currently deposited in NHUK ( Fig. 4 ). Travassos (1955) proposed a new combination in Phaegoptera Herrich-Schäffer , [1853] without providing supporting information and without examining the type specimen. Nevertheless, the holotype habitus is in fact very close to the habitus of the Carales astur ( Cramer , [1777]: 35; pl. 120, fig. B), the type species of the genus. For this reason, the above-mentioned new combination is here proposed. Rothschild (1909b) commented that this species is near C. astur . The latter species presents a variable color pattern on wings and a wide distribution from Mexico to Argentina. C. fasciatus could be another synonymy of C. astur , but further studies are needed to confirm this hypothesis.

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FIGURES 1 – 9. Type specimens of the studied species. 1. Agaraea klagesi (Rothschild, 1909) female lectotype. 2. Agaraea nigrotuberculata Bryk, 1953 male holotype 3. Agaraea nigrostriata (Rothschild, 1909) female holotype. 4. Opharus fasciatus Rothschild, 1909 female holotype. 5. Pelochyta pallida Dognin, 1910 male holotype 6. Opharus ochracea Joicey & Talbot, 1918 female lectotype. 7. Melese paranensis Dognin, 1911 male holotype. 8. Melese flavescens Joicey & Talbot, 1918 male holotype. 9. Tessellota pura Breyer, 1957 male holotype. Scale bar: 10 mm.