Redonda (genus)

Redonda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Glossata
Infraorder: Heteroneura
Division: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Papilionoidea[1]
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Satyrinae
Tribe: Satyrini
Subtribe: Pronophilina
Genus: Redonda
Adams & Bernard, 1981
species

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Redonda is a butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. The genus is endemic from the Páramos in the Cordillera de Mérida in Venezuela, in northern South America. There are 10 known species, which are separated in distinct mountain ranges.[2] Most species show some degree of sexual dimorphism in wingsize, in the most extreme cases females show some degree of wing deformation which might point to incipient brachyptery.[3]

Taxonomy and nomenclature

The genus was described by Adams & Bernard in 1981 based on wing venation, male genitalia, wing color pattern and ecological characteristics of the type species Pedaliodes empetrus originally described by german entomologist Theodor Otto Thieme in 1905.[4] These authors considered the genus to be monobasic, but recognized two subspecies, and suggested a close relationship with two other endemic genera in isolated mountain ranges.[5][6]

Another species was described 20 years later, Redonda bordoni, from the southwest corner of the cordillera de Mérida in Táchira.[3] Other taxa were already recognized, but there were evident gaps in distribution and ecological data and no formal description was attempted until 2015.[2][7][8] There are 10 currently recognized and described species:

Systematics and biogeography

The high species diversity of the Pronophilina subtribe has inspired different theories about speciation and diversification processes. Páramo-dwellers might represent ancient or relictual taxa from open low-land biomes that were isolated by the up-lifting of the andes, or they might be the result of recent radiation due to specialization and isolation.[9][10][11]

Preliminary analysis suggest that the genus is monophyletic, and the speciation sequence seems to correspond to the sequence of up-lifting and separation of the páramo biome in recent geological times.[8][12]

Conservation

R. bordoni is listed as endangered in Venezuela's Red Book of Fauna.

References

  1. Van Nieukerken EJ, Kaila L, Kitching IJ, Kristensen NP, Lees DC, et al. (2011) Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. En: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 212–221.
  2. 1 2 Viloria, Ángel L.; Ferrer-Paris, José R.; Camacho, Jesús; Costa, Mauro (2013) [2015]. "New satyrine butterflies from the Venezuelan Andes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)" (PDF). Anartia. 25: 95–160. doi:10.5281/zenodo.18332.
  3. 1 2 Viloria, A.L.; Pyrcz, T.W.; Ferrer-Paris, J.R.; Beccaloni, G.; Sattler, K.; Lees, D.C. (2003). "A brachypterous butterfly?". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 270 (S1): 21–24. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2003.0015. PMID 12952626.
  4. Adams, M. J. and G. I. Bernard. 1981. Pronophiline butterflies (Satyridae) of the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 71: 343–372.
  5. Adams, M. J. 1977. Trapped in a Colombian Sierra. Geographical Magazine 49: 250–254.
  6. Adams, M. J. and G. I. Bernard. 1979. Pronophiline butterflies (Satyridae) of the Serranía de Valledupar, Colombia-Venezuela border. Systematic Entomology 4: 95–118.
  7. Ferrer-Paris, J. R. 2000. The genus Redonda (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae): a model to study adaptation and distribution in the páramos of Venezuela. Der Genus Redonda (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae): Fallstudie über Anpassung und Verbreitung in den Páramos von Venezuela. Bayreuth: Universität Bayreuth,[ii] + xiii + 111 pp. [Dipl. Biol. thesis].
  8. 1 2 Pyrcz, T. W. 2010b. Evolution of butterflies of the genus Redonda (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), and their adaptation to the high Andean environment. Pp. 265–273. In: Mirek, Z., A. Flakus, A. Krzanowska, A. Paulo and J. Wojtusiak (eds.): The Nature and Culture of Latin America. Review of Polish Studies. Kraków: Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences.
  9. Michael J Adams 1985 Speciation in the pronophiline butterflies (Satyridae) of the northern Andes Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera Supl. 1: 33–49.
  10. A.L. Viloria 1999 Studies on the systematics and biogeography of some montane satyrid butterflies (Lepidoptera). Imperial College, London. PhD Thesis
  11. A.L. Viloria 2003 Historical biogeography and the origins of the satyrine butterflies of the tropical Andes (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera), En: Llorente J. Morrone, J.J. (Eds.) Una perspectiva latinoamericana de la biogeografía Universidad Autónoma de México, México.
  12. Ferrer-Paris, José R.; Vitoria [sic], Ángel L. (2004). "Mariposas Altiandinas (Lepidóptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) y la Conservación de los Páramos en Venezuela". En: C.A. Jaramillo, C. Castaño Uribe, F. Arjona Hincapié, J.V. Rodríguez & C.L. Durán (eds.) Congreso Mundial de Páramos, Memorias Tomo I. Bogotá: Conservación Internacional Colombia: 626–633.

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