Feltia submontana (Noctuidae, Noctuinae): Redescription, Taxonomy, Life Cycle, and Spatial Distribution of a Neglected South American Potential Pest Species

Autor: Vânia F. Roque-Specht, Fernando Maia Silva Dias, Mirna M. Casagrande, Olaf H. H. Mielke, Alexandre Specht, G San Blas
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Neotropical Entomology. 48:98-110
ISSN: 1678-8052
1519-566X
DOI: 10.1007/s13744-018-0611-x
Popis: Feltia submontana (Köhler, 1961) is redescribed based on specimens from Northwestern Argentina and Central and Southeastern Brazil. Taxonomic comments, photographs of the adults, characters of taxonomic importance, and illustrations of structures of the labial palpus, legs, and male and female genitalia are provided. The species is compared with similar-looking and supposedly closely related species, such as F. hispidula (Guenée, 1852) and F. lilacina (Zerny, 1916). The species, originally described for Argentina, is reported for Brazil for the first time. Most Brazilian specimens come from the “Cerrado” but also from Southeastern Atlantic Forests. The life cycle of F. submontana specimens collected in Planaltina, Distrito Federal, Brazil, is described; the species probably has only a single generation per year and imagines are on the wing in the late autumn and early winter months; the last instar prepupa and pupa pass through aestival diapause. The abundance of F. submontana relative to other species of Agrotis Ochsenheimer, 1816, and Feltia Walker, 1856, in the above-cited locality is accessed through 4 years of standardized collecting with light trap; the species is the second most abundant species of these genera in the area, with about one fifth of the captures, second only to A. ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766), with about two thirds of the captures, and about two times more abundant than F. subterranea (Fabricius, 1794); the latter two are regarded as important pest species in South America. Fil: Dias, Fernando Maia Silva. Universidade Federal do Paraná; Brasil Fil: Specht, A. Embrapa Cerrados. Laboratório de Entomologia; Brasil Fil: Roque Specht, V. F.. Universidade do Brasília; Brasil Fil: San Blas, Diego German. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de La Pampa. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina Fil: Casagrande, M. M.. Universidade Federal do Paraná; Brasil Fil: Mielke, O. H. H.. Universidade Federal do Paraná; Brasil
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