First record of two species of Gorgonidia Dyar, 1898 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) from Brazil

José Teston; Margarida Freitas

doi:10.15560/11.3.1651

Check List 11(3): e19249, doi: 10.15560/11.3.1651

First record of two species of Gorgonidia Dyar, 1898 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) from Brazil

José Augusto Teston^‡, Margarida Pereira de Freitas^‡

‡ Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Brazil

Corresponding author: José Teston ( jateston@gmail.com )

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Citation: Teston J, Freitas M (2015) First record of two species of Gorgonidia Dyar, 1898 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) from Brazil. Check List 11(3): 1651. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.3.1651

Abstract

This note reports the first record of Gorgonidia vulcania Toulgoët, 1987 and G. whitfordi (Rothschild, 1909) (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) in Brazil. The specimens were found in the Tapajós National Forest, Pará state, Eastern Amazon. The distribution of G. vulcania is enlarged 870 km south of its type locality; and the distribution of G. whitfordi is enlarged 820 km south of the nearest previously known record for the species.

Keywords

Noctuoidea; Arctiini; Phaegopterina; tiger-moths; Neotropics