2024-03-29T00:49:37Zhttp://digital.csic.es/dspace-oai/requestoai:digital.csic.es:10261/1533522017-07-22T00:54:14Zcom_10261_9676com_10261_8col_10261_9677
Thisbe silvestre sp. nov. (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae): a new myrmecophilous butterfly from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Kaminski, Lucas A.
Iserhard, Cristiano A.
Freitas, André V. L.
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (Brasil)
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Brasil)
National Science Foundation (US)
Ant-organs
Conservation
Mutualism
Nymphidiini
Riodinidae
Trophobiosis
This paper describes a new species of Thisbe Hübner from the Atlantic Forest of south-eastern Brazil. Both adult and immature morphology are described and illustrated, and the natural history, behaviour and symbiotic interactions with ants (myrmecophily) are documented. This new species, T. silvestre sp. nov., is known only from the type locality at Parque Nacional do Caparaó, Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Due to the isolation of the known population, specialised host plant use, restricted geographic distribution and high degree of specificity in a vulnerable habitat, T. silvestre is considered threatened. Thus, monitoring this population is urgently needed, as well as the search for other populations of this butterfly in potential localities in order to evaluate its conservation status.
2017-07-21T06:50:30Z
2017-07-21T06:50:30Z
2016-05
artículo
Austral Entomology 55(2): 138-146 (2016)
2052-1758
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/153352
10.1111/aen.12159
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001807
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003593
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100002322
http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000001
eng
http://doi.org/10.1111/aen.12159
Sí
closedAccess
John Wiley & Sons