Occurrence of Orotaygetis surui Nakahara, Zacca & Lamas, 2018 in Venezuela (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)

Presencia de Orotaygetis surui Nakahara, Zacca & Lamas, 2018 en Venezuela (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)

• Ángel L. Viloria Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), km 11 carretera Panamericana, Altos de Pipe, edo. Miranda 1204, Venezuela.
• Mauro Costa Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay, edo. Aragua, Venezuela.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18762825

Resumen

Orotaygetis Nakahara & Zacca (in Nakahara et al. 2018) is a monobasic genus of satyrine butterflies native to the Amazon biome in South America. The most re- cent and complete phylogeny of the subtribe Euptychiina clearly shows its genetic affinity with Taygetina Forster, 1964 (Espeland et al. 2023), but its external appearance can be confused with that of a species of Harjesia Forster, 1964 (Lamas 2004: 220), a genus from which it diverges significantly in genetics and morphological structure. The only known species within this genus, Orotaygetis surui Nakahara, Zacca & Lamas (2018: 11-12), was apparently discovered in the forests of the upper Arinos River in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, about fifty years ago. Until now it was known from only 28 individuals examined in collections, all from low to medium altitudes, in the south and southwest of the Amazon basin (300-972 m asl; Na- kahara et al. 2018).

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