? Eupteryx capreola Lindberg, 1954

Eupteryx capreola Lindberg, 1954: 240; Quartau and Fançony, 1988: 98; Aveiro and Aguin-Pombo, 2003a,

2003b

Distribution. Endemic to Canary Islands and Madeira archipelago. MADEIRA: reported from many localities of southern and northern slopes (Lindberg, 1961; Quartau and Fançony, 1988). PORTO SANTO: one locality (Quartau and Fançony, 1988).

Food plants. Pteridium aquilinum and herbaceous plants (Quartau and Fançony, 1988). Remarks. Quartau and Fançony (1988) suggested that Eupteryx capreola Lindberg, 1954 is probably an extreme form of Eupteryx filicum (Newman, 1853) . More recent morphological studies and population dynamics analysis of populations on P. aquilinum also failed to separate this species from E. filicum (Aveiro and Aguin-Pombo, 2003a, 2003b). The status of this species needs to be confirmed.