DESCRIPTION OF A NEW LUCILLELLA SPECIES (RIODINIDAE: SYMMACHIINI) DISCOVERED IN THE EASTERN ANDES OF ECUADOR USING THE SINGLE ROPE CANOPY ACCESS TECHNIQUE

作者：Hall Jason P W^*; Willmott Keith R

来源：Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, 2010, 64(3): 139-146.

• canopy diversity
• canopy sampling methods
• montane forest
• South America

A new riodinid species in the tribe Symmachiini, Lucillella arcoirisa Hall & Willmott n. sp., is described from the eastern Andes of Ecuador. All five true members of the germs Lucillella Strand, 1932, are figured, and their known geographic ranges are mapped. Lucillella is hypothesized to be monophyletic with the exclusion of suberra Hewitson, 1877, and the sister genus is hypothesized to be Esthemopsis C. & R. Felder, 1865. The new Lucillella species was discovered in the forest canopy using the single rope technique. The equipment and procedures used in this canopy access method are described and illustrated.

• 出版日期2010-10-22