Punargentus monticolens Butler 1881

• Main Authors: Matz, Jess, Brower, Andrew V. Z.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Lepidoptera; Nymphalidae; Punargentus; Punargentus monticolens; Argentina; Bío Bío; Lamas; Patagonia; Teardrop; Antarc*; antarcticus
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6070101; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6070101

Punargentus monticolens (Butler, 1881) (Hipparchia) comb. nov. (Figs. 11 D; 20 G–I; 29) Holotype: (male) BMNH # 809618 (Specimen examined) Type Location: Termas de Chillán, Chile = Chionobas antarcticus Mabille, 1885 syn. nov. Type Location: Santa Cruz, E. Patagonia Holotype: (male) leg. Lebrun, 1883, MNHN, Paris (photo examined) Other combinations: Argyrophorus monticolens — Heimlich (1972); D’Abrera (1988, p. 798); Peña & Ugarte (1997, p. 272); Pyrcz & Wojtusiak (2010). Palmaris monticolens — Herrera (1965); Lamas & Viloria (2004, p. 216) Argyrophorus antarcticus — Pyrcz & Wojtusiak (2010) Palmaris antarcticus — Lamas & Viloria (2004, p. 217) Distribution. Found mainly in Bío Bío and Auraucania Provinces in Chile and in western Neuquén Province, Argentina, but can be found as far north as northern Mendoza Province, Argentina, east to the Paraná Delta just north of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and south to northeastern Aisén Province, Chile, and to central Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, along the western border. Flies from November to February at nearly sea level to 3300m (Fig. 29). Diagnosis. Most similar to and sometimes confused with P. chiliensis, but having round antennal clubs and a yellow ring clearly circumscribing the ocelli between Rs-M 1 and M 1 -M 2. Dorsal side is warm medium brown to dark chocolate brown with the postmedian band sometimes appearing on the forewing as streaks or patches of maize yellow to rust orange and on the hindwing as teardrop-shaped patches of rust orange. Apical ocellus on the forewing appears as an indistinct dark coffee to black patch between M 1 -M 2. Ventral side of the hindwing with dark chocolate to coffee striations superimposed over taupe to chocolate from the base to the proximal edge of the postmedian band and from the distal edge of the postmedian band to the termen. Postmedian band chocolate brown, bordered in light grey to white and edged in dark coffee to dark chocolate, narrower between M 3 -CuA 1 than in P. chiliensis. Females ...