Artines aepitus
Creators: name: Medeiros, Adalberto Dantas De
name: Dolibaina, Diego Rodrigo
name: Carneiro, Eduardo
name: Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik
name: Casagrande, Mirna Martins
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Hesperiidae
Artines
Artines aepitus

description: Key to the males of the “ aepitus group”
1 Uncus with disto-lateral lobes (Fig. 29C)....................................................... solange sp. nov.
- Uncus without disto-lateral lobes (Figs 27 C–28C, 30C–35C)................................................... 2
2 Harpe with ventral process broad, non-cylindrical and longer than tegumen (Figs 27 E–30E).......................... 3
- Harpe with ventral process narrow and cylindrical (Figs 33 E–35E) or short and triangular, in this case shorter than tegumen (Figs 31 E–32E)....................................................................................... 5
3 Harpe with dorsal process on proximal margin; ventral process longer than tegumen+uncus, with distal end angular (Fig. 27E).......................................................................................... aepitus
- Harpe with the dorsal process away from the proximal margin; ventral process shorter than tegumen+uncus, with angular or rounded distal end (Figs 28E, 30E)....................................................................... 4
4 Harpe with distal end of ventral process dilated and rounded (Fig. 28E).............................. panama sp. nov.
- Harpe with distal end of ventral process angled (Fig. 30E).......................................... delfos sp. nov.
5 Harpe with long and cylindrical ventral process (Figs 33 E–35E)................................................ 6
- Harpe with short and triangular ventral process (Figs 31 E–32E)................................................ 7
6 Harpe with ventral process strongly arched in dorsal view, with bristles on subapical portion (Fig. 35F)...... bamba sp. nov.
- Harpe with ventral process slightly arched in dorsal view, with bristles on apical portion (Figs 33 F–34F)................ 8
7 Ampulla distally curved ventrally (Fig. 31E); distribution restricted to Central America (Fig. 78)................... maya
- Ampulla straight (Fig. 32E); distribution restricted to the Brazilian coast (Fig. 79)..................... litoralis sp. nov.
8 Cornutus as a triangular plate, containing thick spines directed laterally (Fig. 47); distribution restricted to South America (Fig. 79)....................................................................................... liege sp. nov.
- Cornutus as an elongated plate, containing fine spines directed posteriorly (Fig. 46); distribution restricted to Central America (Fig. 78).......................................................................................... rica
description: Published as part of Medeiros, Adalberto Dantas De, Dolibaina, Diego Rodrigo, Carneiro, Eduardo, Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik & Casagrande, Mirna Martins, 2019, Taxonomic revision of Artines Godman, 1901 (Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae: Moncini) with the description of nine new species, pp. 1-49 in Zootaxa 4614 (1) on page 7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4614.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3241035