Taguaiba Freitas, Zacca &amp; Siewert 2023
Creators: name: Espeland, Marianne
name: Nakahara, Shinichi
name: Zacca, Thamara
name: Barbosa, Eduardo P.
name: Huertas, Blanca
name: Marín, Mario A.
name: Lamas, Gerardo
name: Benmesbah, Mohamed
name: Brévignon, Christian
name: Casagrande, Mirna M.
name: Fåhraeus, Christer
name: Grishin, Nick
name: Kawahara, Akito Y.
name: Mielke, Olaf H. H.
name: Miller, Jacqueline Y.
name: Nakamura, Ichiro
name: Navas, Vanessa
name: Patrusky, Brooke
name: Pyrcz, Tomasz W.
name: Richards, Lindsay
name: Tan, Denise
name: Tyler, Stephanie
name: Viloria, Angel
name: Warren, Andrew D.
name: Xiao, Lei
name: Freitas, André V. L.
name: Willmott, Keith R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Taguaiba

description: <i>Taguaiba</i> Freitas, Zacca &amp; Siewert <b>genus novum.</b> Type species <i>— Taygetis drogoni Siewert, Zacca et al., 2013</i>, by present designation. <b>Zoobank registration</b>: https://zoobank.org/Nomenclatural Acts/A1AE37F3-5212-453C-AADD-A87F452EFA5D <b>Systematic placement and diagnosis</b>. <i>Taguaiba</i> <b>gen.n.</b> is a mem-ber of the ‘ <i>Taygetis</i> clade’, where it is sister to a clade containing <i>Pseudodebis</i> + <i>Taygetis</i> (Figure 7, FULL dataset, SH-aLRT 100, UFB 98). Species of <i>Taguaiba</i> <b>gen.n.</b> resemble species of <i>Pseudodebis</i> in wing pattern, but can be distinguished from the latter by: (a) the acute apex of the FW in cell R 3 -R 4 (Figure 21), which is rounded in <i>Pseudodebis</i>, although this character is somewhat variable in some species, for example, <i>T</i>. <i>servius</i> <b>comb.n.</b>; (b) the male genitalia of <i>Taguaiba</i> <b>gen. n.</b> species have elongated brachia directed upwards and no cornuti on the vesica (brachia are short and cornuti are present in <i>Pseudodebis —</i> see illustrations in Siewert et al. [2013] and Forster [1964, pp. 76 <i>–</i> 77]); (c) the female genitalia have the lamella antevaginalis fused to the lamella post-vaginalis, forming a sclerotized sterigma that can exhibit lateral projections (in <i>T</i>. <i>drogoni</i> <b>comb.n.</b>, <i>T</i>. <i>ypthima</i> <b>comb.n.</b> and <i>T</i>. <i>fulginia</i> <b>comb.n.</b>), a ductus bursae that is sclerotized in the posterior region, and a well-developed corpus bursae with the paired signa occupying the entire bursae. <b>Etymology</b>. The generic name is based on that of the <i>Taguaîba</i>, an evil spirit from the mythology of the Brazilian indigenous people Tupinambá (Métraux, 1950), whose original distribution includes the core distribution of the species of this new genus. <i>Taguaiba</i> should be treated as a neuter noun in the nominative singular. <b>Description</b> (Figure 21). Some notable characters include the following: Eyes naked; pterothoracic legs dorsally slightly darker, tibia with two principal longitudinal rows of spines ventrally, pair of spurs of similar length at distal end of tibia, first tarsomere with three principal longitudinal rows of spines ventrally, remaining tarsomeres with four principal longitudinal rows of spines ventrally. Large Euptychiina (FW length typically 32 <i>–</i> 38 mm), FW with apex acute in cell R 3 -R 4. No strong sexual dimorphism: VFW with four small circular ocelli from R 4 -Cu 1, each with a well-marked white pupil, and wide brown sub-basal line inside the discal cell; VHW with five ocelli from Rs-Cu 2, each with a well-marked white pupil, and a narrow brown sub-basal line from costal to anal margin. Males with androconial scales on DFW and DHW. Male genitalia with a pair of elongated brachia directed upwards with or without ventral projection at base, apex of valvae serrated or hook-like, saccus cylindrical and elongated, vesica without cornuti (see illustrations in Siewert et al., 2013, p. 23, figure 6). Female genitalia with a sclerotized sterigma with or without lateral projections, ductus bursae sclerotized at the posterior region and corpus bursae well developed with the paired signa occupying the entire bursae (see illustrations in Siewert et al., 2013, p. 24, figure 7). <b>Distribution and natural history</b> (Figure 22). Siewert et al. (2013) summarized the distribution (also shown here in Figure 22), biology and taxonomic history of members of this genus. <b>Discussion</b>. Using DNA barcodes and up to three nuclear genes of 52 species within the ‘ <i>Taygetis</i> clade’ plus seven euptychiine out-groups, Matos-Maraví et al. (2013) proposed the exclusion of <i>T</i>. <i>ypthima</i> and <i>T</i>. <i>rectifascia</i> from <i>Taygetis</i> and indicated that a new genus should be described to contain both species; that genus is described here as <i>Taguaiba</i> <b>gen.n.</b> The morphology of this group of species was subsequently described (Siewert et al., 2013). <i>Taguaiba ypthima</i> <b>comb.n.</b> and <i>Taguaiba rectifascia</i> <b>comb.n.</b> also share morphological similarities in their wing pattern elements, venation and male and female genitalia (see illustrations in Siewert et al., 2013), which are shared with <i>Taguaiba drogoni</i> <b>comb.n.</b>, <i>Taguaiba fulginia</i> <b>comb.n.</b> and <i>Taguaiba servius</i> <b>comb.n</b>, all placed in the ‘ <i>Taygetis ypthima</i> species group’ by Siewert et al. (2013). In our study, the ‘ <i>T</i>. <i>ypthima</i> species group’ and respective subgroups as proposed in Siewert et al. (2013) were recovered as monophyletic with the following relationships: ([<i>T</i>. <i>drogoni</i> <b>comb.n.</b> + <i>T</i>. <i>ypthima</i> <b>comb.n.</b>] [<i>T</i>. <i>rectifascia</i> <b>comb. n.</b> + <i>T</i>. <i>fulginia</i> <b>comb.n.</b>]). Currently, <i>T</i>. <i>servius</i> <b>comb.n.</b> is only known from old collection specimens, which has so far precluded the obtaining of DNA sequences. The inclusion of <i>T</i>. <i>servius</i> <b>comb.n.</b> in <i>Taguaiba</i> <b>gen.n.</b> is thus based on morphology and should be tested in future studies. In the study of Matos-Maraví et al. (2013) study, <i>T</i>. <i>ypthima</i> <b>comb.n.</b> and <i>T</i>. <i>rectifascia</i> <b>comb.n.</b> were sister to <i>Pseudodebis</i>. This relationship was not recovered in our study, in which species of <i>Taguaiba</i> <b>gen.n.</b> appear stably as sister to a clade containing <i>Pseudodebis</i> + <i>Taygetis</i> (Figure 7, FULL dataset, SH-aLRT 100, UFB 98). <i>Taguaiba</i> Freitas, Zacca &amp; Siewert, <b>gen.n.</b> <i>drogoni</i> (Siewert, Zacca, Dias &amp; Freitas, 2013), <b>comb.n.</b>, was <i>Taygetis</i> [Siewert et al. (2013, ZooKeys, 356: 11-29)] <i>fulginia</i> (D’Almeida, 1922), <b>comb.n.</b>, was <i>Taygetis</i> [Siewert et al. (2013, ZooKeys, 356: 11-29)] <i>rectifascia</i> (Weymer, 1907), <b>comb.n.</b>, was <i>Taygetis</i> = <i>stigma</i> (Weymer, 1907), <b>comb.n.</b>, was <i>Taygetis</i> = <i>latifascia</i> (Weymer, 1907), <b>comb.n.</b>, was <i>Taygetis</i> = <i>epithyma</i> (Forster, 1964), nom. nud., <b>comb.n.</b>, was <i>Taygetis</i> <i>servius</i> (Weymer, 1910), <b>comb.n.</b>, was <i>Taygetis</i> [Siewert et al. (2013, ZooKeys, 356: 11-29)] <i>ypthima</i> (Hübner, [1821]), <b>comb.n.</b>, was <i>Taygetis</i> = <i>xantippe</i> (Butler, 1870), <b>comb.n.</b>, was <i>Taygetis</i> = <i>ophelia</i> (Butler, 1870), <b>comb.n.</b>, was <i>Taygetis</i> = <i>semibrunnea</i> (Weymer, 1910), <b>comb.n.</b>, was <i>Taygetis</i> = <i>lineata</i> (Kivirikko, 1936), <b>comb.n.</b>, was <i>Taygetis</i>
description: Published as part of <i>Espeland, Marianne, Nakahara, Shinichi, Zacca, Thamara, Barbosa, Eduardo P., Huertas, Blanca, Marín, Mario A., Lamas, Gerardo, Benmesbah, Mohamed, Brévignon, Christian, Casagrande, Mirna M., Fåhraeus, Christer, Grishin, Nick, Kawahara, Akito Y., Mielke, Olaf H. H., Miller, Jacqueline Y., Nakamura, Ichiro, Navas, Vanessa, Patrusky, Brooke, Pyrcz, Tomasz W., Richards, Lindsay, Tan, Denise, Tyler, Stephanie, Viloria, Angel, Warren, Andrew D., Xiao, Lei, Freitas, André V. L. &amp; Willmott, Keith R., 2023, Combining target enrichment and Sanger sequencing data to clarify the systematics of the diverse Neotropical butterfly subtribe Euptychiina (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), pp. 1-73 in Zoological Research 2023</i> on pages 28-61, DOI: 10.1111/syen.12590, http://zenodo.org/record/7909395
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