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Systematic Position, Immature Stages, and Geographic Distribution of Glennia pylotis (Godart, 1819) (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Pieridae)

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Abstract

The biology, immature stages, geographic distribution, and systematic position of Glennia pylotis (Godart, 1819) are presented. This species is mostly restricted to the southeastern coastal Atlantic Forest, from the States of São Paulo to Bahia, with sparse records in the interior of Brazil, Argentina, and Bolivia (this locality is most probably spurious—see below). Data on immature stages are based on textual descriptions; pupal skins were illustrated and compared with those of other members of the subtribe Pierina. Based on molecular data, G. pylotis was recovered as a member of the “Leptophobia clade,” as the sister group of all other genera in this clade except for Leptophobia. The immature stages are similar to, and host plants are the same, of several other related genera within Pierina, especially the “Leptophobia clade.” By compiling all available data, searching for unpublished information in museums (including the finding of empty pupal cases) and adding molecular evidence for G. pylotis, not only its systematic position was elucidated, but its true conservation status could also be assessed.

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All analysed data is available in the supplementary material. The DNA sequences indicated in the table S1 are all available at the genbank.

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Acknowledgements

We thank all people who directly or indirectly contributed information for this study (full list Appendix S2). To Olaf H. H. Mielke, Mirna M. Casagrande and Eduardo Carneiro (DZUP); Alexandre Soares (MNRJ); Márcio Félix, Claudia L. Rodrigues and Felipe F. F. Moreira (CEIOC); Marcelo Duarte and Renato Silva for access to material deposited in MZUSP; and to all curators of the visited collections for facilitating access (see full list, Appendix S2). We also thank Luiz Freire, Rodrigo Conte, Frank Model, Hilton M. Cristovão and Fabricio Reis Costa for providing beautiful photographs and information for this study. Thamara Zacca, Patrícia E. Gueratto, and Luísa L. Mota for help in fieldwork. To Pedro Fiaschi for the identification of the plant Oxalis sp. We also thank three anonymous referees for revising and improving the final version of the manuscript. This publication is part of the RedeLep “Rede Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Lepidópteros” SISBIOTABrazil/CNPq (563332/2010-7). The present study is registered in the SISGEN (A00961B).

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AVLF acknowledges support from FAPESP (2021/03868–8), from the Brazilian Research Council—CNPq (421248/2017–3 and 304291/2020–0) and from the National Science Foundation (DEB-1256742). AHBR thanks the CNPq (grant 130314/2016–1) and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior–Brazil (CAPES)—Finance Code 001 for the present scholarship.

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    André Victor Lucci Freitas & Augusto Henrique Batista Rosa

  2. Núcleo de Ecologia e Biodiversidade, Instituto de Ciências Básicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil

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Freitas, A.V.L., Rosa, A.H.B., Kaminski, L.A. et al. Systematic Position, Immature Stages, and Geographic Distribution of Glennia pylotis (Godart, 1819) (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea: Pieridae). Neotrop Entomol 52, 709–717 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-023-01044-2

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