Pseudotinea caprina (Hewitson, 1859)
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Calydna caprina Hewitson, 1859 (original combination)
Conservation Status
Last record: "Probably...from before the 1950s" (Carneiro et al., 2012)
Rediscovered in 2010
Distribution
Brazil
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Hewitson, W. C. (1859). Illustrations of New Species of Exotic Butterflies, Selected Chiefly from the Collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson (London: J. Van Voorst) 2(32): 93-94.
Other references:
Eduardo Carneiro, Diego R. Dolibaina, Luis Anderson R. Leite, Olaf H. H. Mielke and Mirna M. Casagrande. (2012). Rediscovery of Pseudotinea caprina (Lepidoptera, Riodinidae): Remarks on Its Distribution and First Description of the Female. Florida Entomologist 95(2): 521-523.
Hall, Jason P. W. and Callaghan, Curtis J. (2003). A revision of the new riodinid butterfly genus Pseudotinea (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae). Journal of Natural History 37: 821-837.