Abstract
The genus Pseudaethria Schaus is revised and redescribed based on morphological characters of male and female adults. Its type species, Pseudaethria cessogae Schaus, was found out to be a junior subjective synonym of Heliura cosmosomodes Dognin. Therefore, the new combination Pseudaethria cosmosomodes is proposed along with another one: Pseudaethria analis Gaede new combination. A lectotype is designated to P. cessogae, which was described from an undetermined number of specimens. The distribution of the species is discussed as well as its systematic placement.
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The first author is grateful to the curators and technicians who granted her access to the collections and facilities under their care: Alessandro Giusti, Geoff Martin, and Martin Honey (BMNH); Miguel Monné and Alexandre Soares (MNRJ); Marcelo Duarte (MZSP); and Donald Harvey (USNM). The manuscript was improved by suggestions and comments of Simeão Moraes and three anonymous reviewers. This research was funded by Fapesp (grants 2009/11159-5 and 2012/02444-0).
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Pinheiro, L.R., Mey, W. Revision of the Genus Pseudaethria Schaus (Lepidoptera, Erebidae). Neotrop Entomol 44, 588–595 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-015-0320-7
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