Graduate Program in Entomology, Department of Biology, University of São Paulo (USP), Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
Laboratory of Ecological Studies on Ethology and Evolution (LESTES), Department of Hydrobiology, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil.
PLoS One. 2019 Oct 8;14(10):e0223241. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223241. eCollection 2019.
The genus Franciscobasis Machado & Bedê, 2016 is endemic to the Serra da Canastra National Park in Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Two species of Franciscobasis were described simultaneously with the genus description: F. franciscoi and F. sonia, the latter described only from females. Through morphological and molecular analysis, we investigated if F. sonia may represent the young female of F. franciscoi. Resulting data did not present adequate differences between females to characterize them as different species. Therefore, we suggest that F. sonia is a junior synonym of F. franciscoi, and the female of F. franciscoi goes through a complex ontogenetic color change.
弗朗西斯科巴斯基属(Franciscobasis Machado & Bedê, 2016)是巴西米纳斯吉拉斯州坎纳斯特拉山脉国家公园的特有属。两个弗朗西斯科巴斯基物种与属的描述同时被描述:F. franciscoi 和 F. sonia,后者仅从雌性描述。通过形态学和分子分析,我们研究了 F. sonia 是否可能代表 F. franciscoi 的年轻雌性。结果数据在雌性之间没有表现出足够的差异,无法将它们表征为不同的物种。因此,我们建议 F. sonia 是 F. franciscoi 的一个年轻同义词,而 F. franciscoi 的雌性经历了复杂的个体发育颜色变化。