Arctiinae

Laguerre, Michel, 2025, New species of Arctiinae east of the Canal Zone, Panama (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Arctiini), Faunitaxys 13 (12), pp. 1-17 : 10

New data and insights on various Panama Arctiinae

Very recently various forms of Pryteria from the Guiano-Amazonian area were synonymised under the unique name Pryteria costata Möschler, 1883 , ( Cock & Laguerre, 2021 page 259). Nevertheless, at that time, it was not possible to fix the exact status of the entity found in Central America and along the Pacific Coast due to the absence of specimen for dissection or sequencing. Fortunately in the material received, we found a pair of Pryteria and the male was then dissected. The genitalia from Panama and from French Guiana (see figure 21 below) are different enough to prove that the entity found in Central America and along the Pacific Coast is a full species and this confirms the name and status of this entity already predicted in Cock & Laguerre, 2021: Pryteria colombiana Rothschild, 1933 bona species which is redescribed below. The pair collected in Panama is constituted of two un-named forms: the ♂ form is close to form tenuis Rothschild, 1935 and the ♀ form is close to the form apicella ( Strand, 1919) of Pryteria costata Möschler, 1883.