Viuria licisca
Creators: name: Siewert, Ricardo Russo
name: Lemes, José Ricardo Assmann
name: Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik
name: Casagrande, Mirna Martins
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Hesperiidae
Viuria
Viuria licisca

description: Viuria licisca (Plötz, 1882)
Figs 1E–H, 4–5, 12C
Diagnosis
Viuria licisca resembles V. herophile in the genitalia pattern but is easily distinguished by the ventral left portion of the tegumen rounded and curved inwards, while in V. herophile thin and rounded; left valva with ampulla truncated while in V. herophile rounded and well developed; right valva with ampulla rounded and well developed, and harpe with a spine-like process curved inwards while in V. herophile the ampulla is rounded dorsally and the spine-like process in the harpe is absent; distal portion of aedeagus curved upwards while in V. herophile left curved. Females with the left portion of the sterigma with a developed process dorsally; the spine-like process is less developed when compared with its congeners.
Material examined
COSTA RICA • 1 ♂; Canal Zone, Cerro Galera; 22 Sep. 1978; Robbins leg.; DZ 47.241; DZUP • 1 ♂; Canal Zone, Summit; 27 Jun. 1977; Robbins leg.; DZ 47.242; DZUP • 1 ♂; Limón, Siquirres; alt. 200 m; 27 Jan. 1973; Becker leg.; DZ 47.231; DZUP • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; DZ 47.243; DZUP • 1 ♂; San José; Ciudad Colón; 6 Sep. 1990; Pagels leg.; OM 26.945; OM • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; OM 26.521; OM • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; OM 28.758; OM.
GUATEMALA • 1 ♂; Zacapa, La Unión; alt. 850 m; 5 Nov. 1981; Welling leg.; OM 44.935; OM. MEXICO • 1 ♂; Oaxaca, Candelaria Loxicha; alt. 500 m; 22. Aug. 1973; Welling leg.; DZ 47.253; DZUP; 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; DZ 47.263; DZUP • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; 14. Aug. 1973; DZ 47.271; DZUP • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; 15 Jul. 1972; DZ 47.272; DZUP • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; 15. Sep. 1973; DZ 47.261; DZUP • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; DZ 47.262; DZUP • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; 14 Jun. 1972; DZ 47.232; DZUP • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; 15 Jun. 1972; DZ 47.252; DZUP • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; 4 Aug. 1972; DZ 47.163; DZUP • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; 2 Aug. 1973; DZ 47.273; DZUP • 1 ♀; same collection data as for preceding; 4 Sep. 1973; DZ 47.162; DZUP • 1 ♂; Quintana Roo, Nuevo X-Can; 20. Aug. 1974; Welling leg.; DZ 47.233; DZUP • 1 ♂; Tabasco, Tenosique; 8 Aug. 1962; 31 Aug. 1962; Welling leg.; OM 43.776; OM • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; 43.759; OM.
PANAMA • 1 ♂; Colón, Achiote; 28 May 1977; Robbins leg.; DZ 47.281; DZUP.
VENEZUELA • 1 ♀; Aragua, Ocumare; alt. 50 m; 4 Jul. 1982; Mielke and Casagrande leg.; DZ 47.201; DZUP • 1 ♂; El Cenizo; 14 Jun. 1957; Rosalia leg.; DZ 47.251; DZUP.
Remarks
Viuria licisca (Plötz, 1882) is the only species of the genus occurring in Central America. Although Moss (1949) reported immatures of V. licisca on Sterculioideae (Malvaceae) in Pará, Brazil, no specimen of this species was found at this locality. Janzen & Hallwachs (2009) partially illustrated the immature stages of V. licisca feeding on species of Bytnneria (Malvaceae) at the Area de Conservación de Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
Geographical distribution
Viuria licisca is distributed in Central and northern South America, with records from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela (Evans 1953) (Fig. 14).
description: Published as part of Siewert, Ricardo Russo, Lemes, José Ricardo Assmann, Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik & Casagrande, Mirna Martins, 2023, Viuria Grishin, 2019 (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae): taxonomy, description of two new species, and remarks on the morphology of secondary sexual organs of males, pp. 183-203 in European Journal of Taxonomy 908 on pages 188-190, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.908.2347, http://zenodo.org/record/10212500