Paracles vulpina

• Main Authors: Beccacece, Hernán Mario, Viglione, Gabriela Bentancur, Graff, Pamela, Morelli, Enrique
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Arctiidae; Paracles; Paracles vulpina; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5714402; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5714402

Paracles vulpina (Hübner, [1825]) Antarctia vulpina Hübner, [1825]: pl. [193], figs. 1-4 Purius ? vulpinus Walker, 1856: 1782 [new combination proposed] Arctia pallicosta Boisduval, 1859: 158 [synonymized by Berg, 1899: 377] Paracles vulpina (Hübner); Watson & Goodger, 1986: 32 [new combination proposed] Type material. Undisclosed number of syntypes. These specimens could be lost or destroyed (Vincent & Laguerre 2014). Redescription (Fig. 2a–f). Male (Fig. 2a–b): body completely covered with a great density of long hairs. Head: brown dorsally and dark brown ventrally. Posterior margin of the scape and eye edge light brown-orange. Antenna strongly bipectinate, whitish, and rami light brown. Palpi dark brown, erect, and directed to the ventral area. Proboscis reduced, no longer than the head, possibly not functional. Thorax: brown dorsally and dark brown ventrally. Legs: brown except the dorsal side of coxa, trochanter, and femur light brown-orange. Forewing – length 17-18 mm: shining brown dorsally with paler costa. Ventrally white except outer margin and apex darker and coastal area brownish. Hindwing – length 14-15 mm: dorsal and ventral white except the coastal and basal areas light brown-orange. Abdomen: brownish-orange dorsally and dark brown ventrally except the last segment the same as dorsal. There are darker specimens with same pattern. Male genitalia (Fig. 2d): genital capsule rhomboid. Uncus subtriangular with base rounded and apex finger-shape, curved ventrally; tegumen slightly rounded with an invagination at middle; juxta wide and trapezoidal; vinculum slightly rounded; saccus wide and broadly rounded; valvae shorter than uncus, with sacculus and costa fused, flattened and slightly directed towards the internal region; aedeagus (Fig. 2e) curved and slightly shorter than the genital capsule, caecum present and vesica membranous. Female (Fig. 2c): Externally similar to males except for the following features: larger and more robust, antennae with smaller rami. Forewing – length 24- 20 mm: ...