Eurybia telephae
Creators: name: Santos, Wildio Ikaro Da Graça
name: Dolibaina, Diego Rodrigo
name: Dias, Fernando Maia Silva
name: Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik
name: Casagrande, Mirna Martins
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Riodinidae
Eurybia
Eurybia telephae

description: “ telephae group”
This group includes the mid-sized species of the genus. Males are characterized by the lateral areas of the frons and paraocular areas yellowish cream; eyes dorso-posteriorly surrounded by a strip of reddish scales; tip of antenna black; thorax dorsally reddish (pale brown in A. suzana); forewing more elongated and rounded than in other species groups (about 1/4 longer than wide), apex rounded, reddish at the base (less perceptible in A. suzana); wing pattern of the upper side with reddish or whitish transversal bands; hindwing upper side with iridescent pale purple sheen visible when observed at an angle; abdomen with pale rings at the distal margins of the terga; distal part of transtilla exceeding outer posterior process of valva; the outer posterior process of valva mostly membranous; valva with a short callus-like process at the ventral margin of the outer posterior process; inner posterior process of valva bearing thick setae. Females brown, without metallic scales on the wings upper side and with whitish to pale brown bands; corpus bursae longer than half length of ductus bursae; a pair of long cylindrical signa about uniform in width inserted near ductus bursae; papilla analis triangular with the anterior area smooth, shorter than the setose posterior area.
Included species. A. telephae, A. humilis, A. negra R̂ber, 1931, stat. rev. and A. suzana.
Key for males from the “ telephae group”
1 Wings upper side spots reddish.......................................................................... 2
1’ Wings upper side spots whitish...................................................................... suzana
2 Wings upper side without purple iridescence covering all reddish spots........................................... 3
2’ Wings upper side with purple iridescence covering all reddish spots.................................. negra stat. rev.
3 Wings upper side with intervenal iridescent rays....................................................... telephae
3’ Wings upper side without intervenal iridescent rays..................................................... humilis
Key for females from the “ telephae group”
(females of A. humilis and A. suzana are unknown)
1 Hindwing upper side submarginal spots orangish yellow; postdiscal white area of hindwing wide................ telephae
1’ Hindwing upper side submarginal spots cream; postdiscal white area of hindwing narrow........................ negra
description: Published as part of Santos, Wildio Ikaro Da Graça, Dolibaina, Diego Rodrigo, Dias, Fernando Maia Silva, Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik & Casagrande, Mirna Martins, 2023, A review of the South American metalmark genus Alesa Doubleday, 1847 (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Eurybiini) with the description of two new species, pp. 77-120 in Zootaxa 5284 (1) on pages 91-92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5284.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/7919001