Redonda chiquinquirana

Redonda chiquinquirana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Glossata
Infraorder: Heteroneura
Division: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Papilionoidea[1]
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Satyrinae
Tribe: Satyrini
Subtribe: Pronophilina
Genus: Redonda
Species: R. chiquinquirana
Binomial name
Redonda chiquinquirana
Ferrer-Paris, 2015[2]

Redonda chiquinquirana is a butterfly species from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. It is endemic from the Páramos in the Cordillera de Mérida in Venezuela, in northern South America. R. chiquinquirana show high degree of sexual dimorphism in wingsize, in which females show some degree of wing deformation which might point to incipient brachyptery.[3]

Taxonomy and nomenclature

Populations of this species were often referred to as a undescribed subspecies of Redonda empetrus.[2][4][5]

Conservation

Redonda chiquinquirana is listed as endangered in Venezuela's Red Book of Fauna.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Van Nieukerken EJ, Kaila L, Kitching IJ, Kristensen NP, Lees DC, et al. (2011) Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. En: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 212–221.
  2. 1 2 Viloria, Ángel L.; Ferrer-Paris, José R.; Camacho, Jesús; Costa, Mauro (2013) [2015]. "New satyrine butterflies from the Venezuelan Andes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)" (PDF). Anartia. 25: 95–160. doi:10.5281/zenodo.18332.
  3. ↑ Viloria, A.L.; Pyrcz, T.W.; Ferrer-Paris, J.R.; Beccaloni, G.; Sattler, K.; Lees, D.C. (2003). "A brachypterous butterfly?". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 270 (S1): 21–24. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2003.0015. PMID 12952626.
  4. ↑ Ferrer-Paris, J. R. 2000. The genus Redonda (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae): a model to study adaptation and distribution in the páramos of Venezuela. Der Genus Redonda (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae): Fallstudie über Anpassung und Verbreitung in den Páramos von Venezuela. Bayreuth: Universität Bayreuth,[ii] + xiii + 111 pp. [Dipl. Biol. thesis].
  5. ↑ Pyrcz, T. W. 2010b. Evolution of butterflies of the genus Redonda (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), and their adaptation to the high Andean environment. Pp. 265–273. In: Mirek, Z., A. Flakus, A. Krzanowska, A. Paulo and J. Wojtusiak (eds.): The Nature and Culture of Latin America. Review of Polish Studies. Kraków: Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences.
  6. ↑ Ferrer-París, J. R. y Viloria, A. L. (2015). Mariposa paramera de Mucubají, Redonda chiquinquirana. En: J.P. Rodríguez, A. García-Rawlins y F. Rojas-Suárez (eds.) Libro Rojo de la Fauna Venezolana. Cuarta edición. Provita y Fundación Empresas Polar, Caracas, Venezuela. Recuperado de: ] Lun, 09/05/2016 - 11:56
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