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A New Species of Butterfly of the Genus Protopedaliodes from the Isolated Tramen Tepui in the Guyana Shield (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)

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A new species of Protopedaliodes Viloria & Pyrcz, a satyrine butterfly genus endemic to the highest part of the Guyana Shield, P. arekuna Pyrcz & Stachowicz n. sp., is described from the summit area, ca. 2400 m, of Tramen Tepui, an isolated mountain situated on the Venezuela–Guyana border. It is a remarkable finding as it is probably a narrow endemic, and only the fourth known member of the genus. Morphologically it most closely resembles P. kukenani Viloria & Pyrcz from the Roraima–Kukenán twin peaks. COI barcode analysis shows, however, high genetic distances between these two species, 9–10%. Protopedaliodes taxonomy is briefly revised, from the perspective of the monophyly of the genus based on preliminary molecular and morphological comparative data, including the female genitalia described for the first time for P. kukenani and P. ridouti Viloria & Pyrcz.

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Acknowledgements

Molecular analysis was carried out in the laboratory of the Nature Education Centre, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland (CEP UJ).

Nomenclature

This publication LSID is: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub: FA91C80E-598D-4D97-BF77-68249222415E, with the new species Protopedaliodes arekuna registered in ZooBank as: F3004B92-7DC2-4DB3-8724-7B5A44DE76D7. Registration date: November 8th, 2020.

Funding

This research was supported by an Internal Research Grant of the Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research of the Jagiellonian University, BW/IZ/ADD/2005, and by NCN grant Harmonia-10 2018/30/M/NZ8/00293 “Evolutionary biogeography and diversification of the predominantly Andean butterfly subtribe Pronophilina (Nymphalidae, Satyrinae) based on phylogenetic data generated using modern molecular methods”.

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  1. Entomology Dept, Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian Univ, Kraków, Poland

    Tomasz Wilhelm Pyrcz & Dorota Lachowska-Cierlik

  2. Nature Education Centre, Jagiellonian Univ, Kraków, Poland

    Tomasz Wilhelm Pyrcz, Anna Zubek, Oscar Mahecha Jiménez & Klaudia Florczyk

  3. Dept of Biodiversity Studies and Bioeducation, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, Univ of Łódź, Łódź, Poland

    Izabela Stachowicz

  4. Zoological Research Museum, Alexander Koenig, Bonn, Germany

    Marianne Espeland

  5. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Univ Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia

    Oscar Mahecha Jiménez

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Field work and study site description was performed by IS. Adult description was made by TP. Genitalia dissections, photography, and description were performed by KF. DNA extractions, PCR, and electrophoresis were performed by AZ and DL-C, whereas phylogenetic analysis was carried out and trees were composed by AZ and OM. The first draft of the manuscript was written by TP and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript; in particular, the bulk of discussion was elaborated by TP and ME. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Pyrcz, T.W., Stachowicz, I., Zubek, A. et al. A New Species of Butterfly of the Genus Protopedaliodes from the Isolated Tramen Tepui in the Guyana Shield (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae). Neotrop Entomol 50, 218–228 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-020-00830-6

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