Mesene paraena Bates, 1868

Dolibaina, Diego Rodrigo, Dias, Fernando Maia Silva, Siewert, Ricardo Russo, Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik & Casagrande, Mirna Martins, 2016, Mesene Doubleday (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae) from Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, Acre, Brazil, with taxonomic notes and the description of a new species, Zootaxa 4175 (5), pp. 463-472 : 470

Mesene paraena Bates, 1868

( Figs 15–20 , 38 , 43 )

Ten males and one female of M. paraena were collected in PNSD in 2011 (two males and one female) and 2014 (eight males), all flying in a sunlit patch on the hilltop about five to eight meters above the ground after 15:30h. In 2014 two males were captured together with the holotype male of M. gracielae sp. nov. while they were engaged in a defensive flight for territory about five meters above the ground, around 16:00h.

The specimens collected at the PNSD ( Figs 17–20 ) differ from the type specimen of this species and its synonym, M. fenestrella Bates, 1868 , (phenotype as in Figs 15–16 ) by the presence of a subapical white spot on the forewing and more developed submarginal white spots on the hind wing, which are fused to the proximal orange marking. The morphology of the male genitalia is identical between these phenotypes. Due to the distribution of CAS and morphology of male genitalia, this species belongs to the “ phareus ” species group ( Hall & Harvey 2002).

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 32. Mesene species from Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, Acre, Brazil (unless otherwise indicated), in dorsal and ventral views. 1 – 2 M. gracielae sp. nov., male holotype. 3 – 4 M. monostigma monostigma, male from Santa Rosa do Purus, Acre, Brazil. 5 – 8 M. nepticula stigmosa, 5 – 6 male; 7 – 8 female. 9 – 12 M. eupteryx stat. rest., 9 – 10 male from Senador Guiomard, Acre, Brazil; 11 – 12 female. 13 – 14 M. nola, male from Alto Alegre, Roraima, Brazil. 15 – 20 M. paraena, 15 – 16 male from Cáceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil; 17 – 18 male; 19 – 20 female. 21 – 28 M. epaphus (23 – 28 upper side left, underside right), 21 – 22 M. epaphus pyrrha, male; 23 female from Porto Acre, Acre, Brazil; 24 female from Senador Guiomard, Acre, Brazil; 25 M. epaphus epaphus, male from Belém, Pará, Brazil; 26 M. epaphus pyrrha, male from São Paulo de Olivença, Amazonas, Brazil; 27 – 28, M. epaphus pyrrha, males from Senador Guiomard, Acre, Brazil. 29 – 32 M. leucophrys, 29 – 30 male from Santa Rosa do Purus, Acre, Brazil; 31 – 32 female. Scale bar 1 cm.

FIGURES 33 – 40. Male genitalia of Mesene species from Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, Acre, Brazil (unless otherwise indicated), in lateral view. 33 M. gracielae sp. nov., holotype. 34 M. monostigma monostigma. 35 M. nepticula stigmosa. 36 M. eupteryx stat. rest. from Senador Guiomard, Acre, Brazil (DZ 36.494). 37 M. nola from Alto Alegre, Roraima, Brazil (DZ 36.794). 38 M. paraena. 39 M. epaphus pyrrha. 40 M. leucophrys. Scale bar 1 mm.

FIGURES 41 – 45. Female genitalia of Mesene species from Parque Nacional da Serra do Divisor, Acre, Brazil (unless otherwise indicated), in ventral view. 41, M. nepticula stigmosa. 42, M. eupteryx stat. rest. 43, M. paraena. 44, M. epaphus pyrrha from Porto Acre, Acre, Brazil (DZ 36.504). 45, M. leucophrys. Scale bar 1 mm.