Argyrophorus is a butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. It is distributed between Chile, Argentina and Peru. The systematic and circumscription of the genus is disputed.
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| Genus: | Argyrophorus Blanchard, 1852
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Taxonomy and systematics
editType species by monotypy is Argyrophorus argenteus Blanchard, 1852.[1] Lamas recognised four species in the Neotropics, including the type species and three undescribed species.[2]
Several species of southern temperate satyrinae have been assigned initially to the genus Argyrophorus, but taxonomic work during the 1950s and 1960s placed many of these in distinct genera.[3][4][5][6][7] The recent description of a new species, with two distinct subspecies, raised the question of the validity of those genera (Neomaniola, Pampasatyrus, Pamperis, Punargenteus, Etcheverrius, Palmaris, Stuardosatyrus, Chilanella and Pseudocercyonis), but did not provided a resolved and conclusive synonymy for the group.[8]
Traditionally Argyrophorus has been considered a representative of the subtribe Pronophilina, but Viloria found it to be closer related to the Hypocystina.[9] This later arrangement has been challenged by phylogenetic analysis based on molecular data.[10][11]
References
edit- ^ Blanchard (1852) Hist. fís. pol. Chile 7:30
- ^ Gerardo Lamas 2004 Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. CheckList: Part 4A Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea Scientific Publishers.
- ^ G. Weymer 1912 "4 familie: Satyridae", In: A. Seitz. (Eds.) Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der erde, 2; exotische fauna A. Kernen, Stuttgart.
- ^ K. J. Hayward 1949 "Satíridos argentinos nuevos para la ciencia (Lep. Satyridae)" Acta Zool. Lill. 8: 151-159.
- ^ K. J. Hayward 1953 "Satíridos argentinos (Lep. Rhop. Satyridae) I. Los géneros (excluídos euptychia y Neomaniola)" Acta zool. Lill. 13: 5-66.
- ^ W. Heimlich 1959 "Eine neue Satyridae aus Chile" Entomol. Zeitschr. 69: 173-179.
- ^ W. Heimlich 1963 "Die Gattung Argyrophorus Blanchard (Lep., Satyridae)" Mitt. Münch. entomol. Ges. 53: 70-79.
- ^ T.W. Pyrcz and J. Wojtusiak 2010 "A new species of Argyrophorus Blanchard from northern Peru and considerations on the value of wing venation as a source of synapomorphies in some temperate Neotropical Satyrinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)" Genus 21: 605--613.
- ^ A.L. Viloria 2007 "Some Gondwanan and Laurasian elements in the satyrine fauna of South America (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae)" Tropical Lepidoptera (2004)15: 53-55.
- ^ C. Peña , N. Wahlberg , E. Weingartner , U. Kodandaramaiah , S. Nylin , A.V.L. Freitas , and A.V.Z. Brower 2006 "Higher level phylogeny of Satyrinae butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) based on DNA sequence data" Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40: 29--49.
- ^ N. Wahlberg, J. Leneveu , U. Kodandaramaiah , C. Peña , S. Nylin , A. V. L. Freitas , and A. V. Z. Brower 2009 "Nymphalid butterflies diversify following near demise at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary" Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences 276: 4295–4302.