Agaraea sericeum ( Zerny, 1931 ) Zerny, 1931

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 : 422-423

Agaraea sericeum ( Zerny, 1931) comb. n.

Recently, a male lectotype of Eucereon sericeum Zerny, 1931: 25 ; pl. 1, fig. 5 has been designated and illustrated by Pinheiro & Gaal-Haszler (2015). The habitus and genitalia of the lectotype are certainly not part of a monophyletic concept of Eucereon or even Ctenuchina ( Pinheiro & Gaal-Haszler 2015). In fact, morphological traits of lectotype are similar to those of Agaraea longicornis Herrich-Schäffer , [1855], the type species of the genus Agaraea Herrich-Schäffer (illustrated in Vincent & Laguerre, 2014). For this reason, the above-mentioned new combination is here proposed.

Pinheiro & Gaal-Haszler (2015) also stated that there are three other species closely related to A. sericeum : Eucereon album (Druce) , E. vestalis (Schaus) and Hyaleucerea mundula (Berg) . Further studies are necessary to know if these species really correspond to Agaraea .