Laboratório de Estudos em Lepidoptera Neotropical; Departamento de Zoologia; Universidade Federal do Paraná; Brazil.
Department of Entomology; Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History; Washington D.C.; United States; McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity; Florida Museum of Natural History; Gainesville; FL; United States.
Zootaxa. 2023 Jun 22;5306(4):401-426. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5306.4.1.
Notodontidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea) comprise over 4,000 described species distributed worldwide, among which nearly half are restricted to the Neotropics. Morphology of adults and immatures of Notodontidae have been broadly investigated and many larval, pupal, and adult characters were found to be synapomorphies of subfamilies and tribes. Despite this, the current classification of Notodontidae remains unsettled as most recent classification systems are contradictory due to reliance on incomplete global sampling and, many taxa, especially in the Neotropics, are still informally classified as incertae sedis. Anurocampa Herrich-Shäffer was recently treated as an incertae sedis genus, and immature and adult characters may provide further evidence for its systematic position among the Notodontidae. With this goal in mind, the present study describes the immature stages of Anurocampa mingens Herrich-Shäffer from Brazil and describes two new species in the genus from Costa Rica based on morphology and mitochondrial DNA: Anurocampa markhastingsi Chacón and St Laurent sp. nov. and Anurocampa abelardochaconi Chacón and St Laurent sp. nov. and discusses the systematic position of Anurocampa.
Notodontidae（鳞翅目，夜蛾总科）包括全球分布的超过 4000 种已描述的物种，其中近一半局限于新热带区。Notodontidae 的成虫和幼虫的形态已经得到广泛研究，并且许多幼虫、蛹和成虫特征被发现是亚科和族的共衍征。尽管如此，Notodontidae 的分类仍然没有确定，因为大多数最近的分类系统由于依赖不完全的全球采样而相互矛盾，并且许多分类群，特别是在新热带区，仍然非正式地被归类为地位未定。Anurocampa Herrich-Schäffer 最近被视为地位未定的属，其幼虫和成虫特征可能为其在 Notodontidae 中的系统地位提供进一步的证据。有鉴于此，本研究描述了来自巴西的 Anurocampa mingens Herrich-Schäffer 的幼虫阶段，并根据形态和线粒体 DNA 描述了来自哥斯达黎加的该属的两个新物种：Anurocampa markhastingsi Chacón 和 St Laurent sp. nov. 和 Anurocampa abelardochaconi Chacón 和 St Laurent sp. nov.，并讨论了 Anurocampa 的系统位置。
