Redonda bordoni, Viloria and Pyrcz, MS, 2024

Viloria, Ángel L., 2024, Defective taxonomic descriptions and the electronic publication fashion. A comment on Braby et al. (2024) and a rectification, Anartia (Oxford, England) 38, pp. 45-51 : 47-49

Redonda bordoni , sp. nov.

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Original figures in Viloria et al., 2003: fig. 1a [male holotype, female paratype; ventral] (not reproduced here); e-Appendix A: fig 5 [female paratype, dorsal] (herein reproduced in Fig. 1), figs. 6a [male genitalia], 6b [female genitalia], 6c [female wing venation] (herein reproduced in Fig. 2), and in Viloria et al. 2015: figs. 14 [male, holotype], 15 [female, allotype].

Type locality

Between Laguna El Cenegón and Laguna Grande, 3200-3400 m, Páramo El Batallón, Estado Táchira, Venezuela .

[ Redonda bordoni Viloria and Pyrcz, MS , nomen nudum; Viloria, 1998: 319; Ferrer-Paris, 2000: 96 (tbl. C.9)]

[ Redonda sp. nov. 1; Ferrer-Paris, 2000: 27 (fig. 3.1, distribution), 29 (tbl. 3.1), 36, 37 (fig. 3.5), 38, 40, 41 (tbl. 3.6), 69, 91 (tbl. C.7); Viloria, 2000: 269; Ferrer-Paris & Viloria, [2004]: 628 (fig. 1); 629 (tbl. 1), 630 (fig. 3), 631]

[ Redonda bordoni Viloria and Pyrcz , in Viloria et al., 2003: 21–23 (figs. 1a, male, female, 2, 3, 4), e-appendices: [1], [4 (fig. 5, female)], [5 (figs. 6a male genitalia, 6b female genitalia, 6c female wing venation)]) (in part misidentifications of R. bolivari Adams & Bernard, 1981 and R. lathraia Viloria & Camacho, 2015 ]; [Anonymous], 2003: 24; Blackman, 2003: 26; Williams, 2003: R467; Lamas et al., 2004: 215; Viloria, 2005: 459; 2008: 278; Bálint & Wojtusiak, 2006: 288; Pyrcz, 2007a: 40, 41; 2007b: 17, 18, 19; 2010a: 36 (fig. 17C, antennal club), 45 (fig. 35C, female venation), 87 (fig. 82, cladogram), 111, 179, 180 (fig. 131, wing area), 181 (figs. 132A, male; B, female, 133A, pair in copula), 182, 183, 184 (fig. 136, distribution), 244; 2010b: 265, 266 (figs. 1K male, 1L female, 267, 268 (fig. 2), 269 (figs. 3A, B, C females), 271 (fig. 5B pair in copula), 272, 273; Pyrcz et al., 2007: [26] [3 figs., male & female], Łabno, 2007: 104; Davies & Butler, 2008: 33; Viloria et al., 2015: 97, 105 (fig. 5 [female wing venation]), 107, 109 (figs. 14 [male, holotype], 15 [female, allotype]), 110, 111, 112, 135 (as misidentification of R. lathraia Viloria & Camacho, 2015 ), 136, 137, 138, 145 (fig. 48 [male genitalia]), 154, 160; Ferrer-Paris et al., 2015: 322; Pyrcz et al., 2017: 198, 221], nomen nudum

[ Steromapedaliodes bordoni (Viloria & Pyrcz) ; Pyrcz et al., 2017: 195, 197 (fig. 1B, distribution map), 200 (tbl. 1), 204 (fig. 4A [male wing venation]), 221, 222, 223, 224, 231 (figs. 10C [male], 10D [female]), 236 (fig. 15C [male genitalia]), 240 (fig. 19A [female genitalia]; Boyer, 2018: 122, 123 pl. 2 (figs. 5 [pair in copula], 6 [female]), 124, 125 pl. 3 (figs. 5, 7 [male], 6, 8 [female]), 129; 2019: 99, 104, 105 pl. 16 (fig. 14 [male], 129)], nomen nudum

Male

Forewing length: 26–32 mm; n = 123; mean = 29.56. Eyes hairy, reddish brown, circled with black and white scales. Palpi twice as long as head, light brown, flanked with white, with brown, dark brown and yellow hairs; first segment quarter length of first. Antennae up to two fifths length of costa, 32 segments; shaft orange brown, darker towards club; club 2.5-3 times longer that wide, concave (spoon-shaped). Body densely hairy, dorsally dark coffee brown, ventrally light brown, almost white on abdomen; hairs glossy light brown. Forewing triangular, tornus obtuse. Hindwing oval. Upperside ground colour shiny brown, darker towards basal half and marginal region; wing bases dark coffee brown; crossveins at distal extremity of discal cells covered by greyish white; series of five to six submarginal elongate white spots on both wings. Underside ground colour as above; forewing pattern as on upperside; hindwing veins greyish white, as well as longitudinal lines in discal and Cu2 cells, the former bifurcated near base; postdiscal series of five to six fusiform white ocellar marks; third Schwanwitsch’s externa, first and second Schwanwitsch’s media coffee brown ( Schwanwitsch 1924); all discontinuous and dislocated to form a system of longitudinal lines parallel or oblique to veins and white marks, in basal half of wing and postdiscal-submarginal region, respectively. Genitalia illustrated in Figure 2a.

Female

Forewing length: 20–29 mm; n = 4; mean = 20.87. Wings considerably shorter and narrower than in male; apex pronounced at hindwing vein M2. Upperside ground colour silvery white; wing bases very dark coffee brown; forewing densely dusted with dark brown in apical and discal region, and within discal cell. Underside colour pattern as in male, dark coffee brown much more dense in basal half of hindwing; white lines and veins more distinct; fusiform white ocellar marks heavily elongate; costal margin dark coffee brown. Genitalia illustrated in Figure 2b.

Type material

Holotype male, taken between Laguna El Cenegón and Laguna Grande, Páramo El Batallón, Estado Táchira , Venezuela, 3200-3400 m, 28-ii-1994, A. Viloria, M. García & J. Camacho colls .; Allotype female, same data as holotype ( MALUZ) . Paratypes: 27 males (3 in MHN, 3 in JFLC) , 1 female, same data as holotype ; 19 males (2 in MZUJ, 2 in BMNH), VENEZUELA: Estado Táchira, Páramo El Batallón, entre la Antena CANTV y la Laguna El Cenegón , 3100-3250 m; 27-ii-1994, A. Viloria, M. García & J. Camacho colls .; 4 males, Estado Táchira, Municipio Jáuregui, Callejón del Cenegón , 16-xii-1994; M. García coll. ; 6 males, 1 female, Estado Táchira, Parque Nacional Juan Peñaloza , Páramo El Rosal , 3000 m, 12/ 14- i-1995; J. Camacho & M. García colls .; 10 males, Estado Táchira, Páramo El Batallón, Entre El Cenegón y Laguna Grande , 3300-3400 m, 05-iii-1996, J. Camacho, M. García, T. Pyrcz, J. Wojtusiak colls. ( MALUZ) ; 1 male, Estado Táchira, Páramo de La Negra , 30-ix-1951, P. Fenjues coll. ; 1 male, same locality, 3200 m., 14-i-1982, C. Bordón coll. ( MIZA) ; 51 males, 1 female, Estado Táchira, Páramo El Batallón, Vía El Púlpito , 3500-3800 m, 02/ 04-iii-1996, T. Pyrcz, J. Wojtusiak, J. Camacho, M. García colls .; 5 males, Estado Táchira, Páramo El Batallón, Vía El Cenegón , 04- iii-1996, T. Pyrcz, J. Wojtusiak, J. Camacho, M. García colls. ( MZUJ) .

Etymology

This butterfly species is named after Carlos Bordón (b. Trieste, Italy, 1921; d. Maracay, Venezuela, 2012. See Viloria 2018), prominent Italo-Venezuelan entomologist who collected the first known individual of this unusual butterfly.