Cisandina trinitensis Nakahara & Rodríguez-Melgarejo & Kleckner & Corahua-Espinoza & Tejeira & Espeland & Casagrande & Barbosa & See & Gallice & Lamas 2022, New Combination
Creators: name: Nakahara, Shinichi
name: Rodríguez-Melgarejo, Maryzender
name: Kleckner, Kaylin
name: Corahua-Espinoza, Thalia
name: Tejeira, Rafael
name: Espeland, Marianne
name: Casagrande, Mirna M.
name: Barbosa, Eduardo P.
name: See, Joseph
name: Gallice, Geoffrey
name: Lamas, Gerardo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Nymphalidae
Cisandina
Cisandina trinitensis

description: Cisandina trinitensis (Brévignon & Benmesbah, 2012), New Combination   
(Figs. 1, 2q and r, 3u–w, 4l and m, 8)  
 Euptychia ? sp.: D’Abrera 1988: 780, figs.   
 Magneuptychia trinitensis Brévignon & Benmesbah, 2012: 47, pl. 3, Figs. 1–4, pl. 4, Figs. 8, 8a.   
 Systematic placement and diagnosis: Cisandina trinitensis n. comb. is moderately to strongly supported as sister to the remainder of Cisandina n. gen. (Fig. 1; SH-aLRT/UFBoot=91.9/92), with three sequenced individuals (LCB251, LCB356, MB_1708_15) forming a well-supported clade (Fig. 1; SH-aLRT/UFBoot = 100/100). Cisandina trinitensis n. comb. is readily distinguished from other species in the genus by the lack of an ocellus in VHW cell Cu 2, coupled with the presence of four submarginal ocelli on the VFW (in cells M 1, M 2, M 3, and Cu 1). However, it must be noted that some ocelli on the VFW may appear as faint or only a trace, and with the limited number of specimens examined this character may prove unreliable.   
 Taxonomy: Brévignon and Benmesbah (2012) described Magneuptychia trinitensis based on two males and two females, including the male holotype, all collected in French Guiana. The holotype was examined prior to deposition in MOBE, and it was also figured in the original description (pl. 3, Figs. 1 and 2), where the aforementioned characters are visible. We also incorporated sequences from the holotype in our molecular phylogeny (Fig. 1; LCB 251), thus leaving no doubt as to its rather distinctive identity, which is also indicated as being sister to the rest of the genus according to the maximum likelihood tree (Fig. 1).   
 Distribution and natural history: Cisandina trinitensis n. comb. is so far known from a handful of sites all situated in French Guiana (Fig. 8).   
 Specimens examined (3 ♂, 2 ♀ ): French Guiana: Cayenne: Montagne de la Trinité, [4°36 ′ 2 ″ N, 53°24 ′ 43 ″ W], (Benmesbah, M.), 10 Nov 2010, 1 ♀ [AT trinitensis], (LBCB), (Hermier, B.), 30 Oct 2008, 1 ♀ [PT trinitensis], (LBCB); Nouragues Station, [4°5 ′ N, 52°41 ′ W], (Benmesbah, M.), 6 Sep 2010, 1 ♂, (MOBE); St-Laurent du Maroni: Maripasoula, Antecume-Pata, ‘filet’, [3°17 ′ 53 ″ N, 54°4 ′ 16 ″ W], (Benmesbah, M.), 13 Mar 2012, 1 ♂ [HT trinitensis], (MOBE); Not located: ‘ French Guiana’, 1 ♂ [PT trinitensis], (MOBE).   
 Other records: French Guiana: Cayenne: Cayenne, [4°56 ′ N, 52°20 ′ W], 1 ♂, 1 ♀, (NHMUK) (D’Abrera (188: 780, ‘ Euptychia ? sp.’)); St-Laurent du Maroni: Maripasoula, Antecume-Pata, ‘filet’, [3°17 ′ 53 ″ N, 54°4 ′ 16 ″ W], (Benmesbah, M.), 13 Mar 2012, 1 ♀ [PT trinitensis], (MOBE) (Brévignon and Benmesbah (2012)).
description: Published as part of Nakahara, Shinichi, Rodríguez-Melgarejo, Maryzender, Kleckner, Kaylin, Corahua-Espinoza, Thalia, Tejeira, Rafael, Espeland, Marianne, Casagrande, Mirna M., Barbosa, Eduardo P., See, Joseph, Gallice, Geoffrey & Lamas, Gerardo, 2022, Systematic Revision of a New Butterfly Genus, Cisandina Nakahara & Espeland, n. gen., with Descriptions of Three New Taxa (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae), pp. 1-30 in Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1) on page 27, DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixab028, http://zenodo.org/record/8315207