Abstract
A new firefly-mimicking lichen moth of the genus Hypoprepia, H.lampyroides Palting & Ferguson, sp. n., is described from the mountains of east-central Arizona and the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico. Hypoprepia Hübner, 1831 is a North American genus of lithosiine tiger moths, previously consisting of five species: H.fucosa Hübner, 1831 and H.miniata (Kirby, 1837), both of eastern and central North America; H.cadaverosa Strecker, 1878 from the Rocky Mountains into New Mexico and west Texas; H.inculta H. Edwards, 1882, a widespread western USA species and H.muelleri Dyar, 1907 from the vicinity of Mexico City. The latter is herein synonymized under H.inculta (= H.muellerisyn. n.), resulting in the total number of taxa in the genus unchanged at five.
Highlights
The mountains of southeastern Arizona and northeastern Sonora are well known as a biological blending zone between the fauna of the Rocky Mountains to the north and Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental to the south
Published cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI) sequences of Hypoprepia and all other members of the tribe Lithosiini were downloaded from GenBank and the Barcode of Life Database (Table 1)
We identified the closest relatives of Hypoprepia in the resulting maximum likelihood tree, selected these as our outgroup taxa, and re-ran the Maximum likelihood (ML) heuristic searches on the smaller matrix of 73 taxa
Summary
The mountains of southeastern Arizona and northeastern Sonora are well known as a biological blending zone between the fauna of the Rocky Mountains to the north and Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental to the south.
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