Brangas Hubner
Creators: name: Martins, Ananda Regina P.
name: Duarte, Marcelo
name: Robbins, Robert K.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lycaenidae
Brangas

description: Brangas Hübner, [1819]
type species: Papilio caranus Stoll
Dabreras Bálint, 2008, New Synonym
type species: Thecla teucria Hewitson
Brangas is characterized by eight synapomorphies (Table 1), but they are exceedingly tentative because we included only two Brangas species in the phylogenetic analyses. However, every Brangas species has a male genitalia dorsal vinculum process that lies under and inside of its associated brush organs, a trait that occurs nowhere else in the Eumaeini. There are sixteen described and three undescribed species of Brangas. The genus occurs from Mexico to southern Brazil and northern Argentina.
Robbins (2004b) placed Thecla teucria Hewitson in Brangas while Bálint & Faynel (2008) moved Brangas teucria to the monotypic genus Dabreras. Brangas teucria possesses a shallow hindwing anal lobe cleft similar to that in Brangas. Males of B. teucria have a male genitalia dorsal vinculum process that lies under and inside of its associated brush organs, as it does in Brangas. Finally, the genitalia of B. teucria and B. rita (Goodson) are almost indistinguishable.
Brangas teucria (Hewitson, 1868) (Thecla), type locality: Brazil
Distribution and Habitat. The Amazonian Region in wet lowland forest.
Brangas rita (Goodson, 1945) (Thecla), type locality: Colombia
Distribution and Habitat. Costa Rica to western Colombia and Ecuador in wet lowland forest.
Brangas dydimaon (Cramer, 1777) (Papilio), type locality: Surinam
Distribution and Habitat. The Amazonian Region in wet lowland forest.
Brangas neora (Hewitson, 1867) (Thecla), type locality: Guatemala
Distribution and Habitat. Mexico to southern Brazil in wet and dry lowland forest, occasionally occurring in montane habitats.
Brangas moserorum Bálint & Faynel, 2008, type locality: Brazil (SP)
Distribution and Habitat. Paraguay and southern Brazil, from MT, DF, and MG to RS.
Brangas coccineifrons (Godman & Salvin, 1887) (Thecla), type locality: Nicaragua; Colombia
Distribution and Habitat. Mexico to western Ecuador in wet lower montane forest, at lower elevations in the north.
Brangas torfrida (Hewitson, 1867) (Thecla), type locality: Brazil (PA)
Distribution and Habitat. The Amazonian and Atlantic regions in wet lowland forest to lower montane forest.
Brangas carthaea (Hewitson, 1868) (Thecla), type locality: Mexico
Distribution and Habitat. Mexico to western Ecuador in wet montane forest, but at lower elevations in the north.
Brangas getus (Fabricius, 1787) (Papilio), type locality: Surinam, repl. name
pelops (Stoll, 1781) (Papilio), type locality: Surinam, preocc. (not Drury, 1773)
Distribution and Habitat. Mexico to Argentina, Paraguay, and southern Brazil in wet and dry lowland forest.
Brangas caranus (Stoll, 1780) (Papilio), type locality: Surinam
Distribution and Habitat. From western Ecuador to French Guiana, south to southern Brazil (ES) in wet lowland forest.
Brangas rambutorum Bálint & Faynel, 2008, type locality: Colombia
Distribution and Habitat. Venezuela and Colombia in dry forest.
Brangas neildonatus Bálint & Faynel, 2008, type locality: Venezuela
Distribution and Habitat. Venezuela. Dry lowland forest along the Venezuelan northern coast.
Brangas silumena (Hewitson, 1867) (Thecla), type locality:?
Distribution and Habitat. Paraguay and Brazil from RJ to RS in montane forest, but at lower elevations in the south.
Brangas felderi (Goodson, 1945) (Thecla), type locality: Colombia; Ecuador
contrastus Bálint, 2008, New Synonym, type locality: Ecuador
Distribution and Habitat. Colombia to Peru in montane forest.
Synonymy. The differences between B. felderi and B. contrastus mentioned by Bálint (width of the dorsal forewing border, amount of ventral blue iridescence) represent a small part of continuous variation in the series of more than 25 males that we have examined from eastern Ecuador.
Brangas polonus Bálint, 2008, type locality: Peru
Distribution and Habitat. Peru to Bolivia in montane forest.
Brangas insolitus Bálint & Faynel, 2008, type locality: Peru
Distribution and Habitat. Ecuador to Peru in montane forest.
description: Published as part of Martins, Ananda Regina P., Duarte, Marcelo & Robbins, Robert K., 2019, Phylogenetic Classification of the Atlides Section of the Eumaeini (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae), pp. 119-134 in Zootaxa 4563 (1) on pages 128-129, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4563.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/2601017