second Brassolid to ID

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second Brassolid to ID

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Please help ID the following Brassolid specimen.
This one from Ecuador.
Thank you
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Re: second Brassolid to ID

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collector wrote: Tue Jun 13, 2023 6:50 pm Please help ID the following Brassolid specimen.
This one from Ecuador...
Another Opsiphanes sp., but again, I'm uncertain of the species. It may possibly be O. cassina.
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Re: second Brassolid to ID

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Based on a quick picture-book ID - this is O. merianae. Me thinks that cassina - as we knew it, is now a series of different species. For example, Central American populations are now O. fabricii.

Opsiphanes was just revised in detail - 23 species. If you go onto researchgate - the lead author will send you a pdf file if you ask. I've used it, and it solved some quite tedious problems I had in Belize. Problems caused by over splitting by past researchers (and me) in species that are quite variable.

MÔNICA PIOVESAN, MIRNA MARTINS CASAGRANDE & OLAF HERMANN HENDRIK MIELKE. Systematics of Opsiphanes Doubleday, [1849] (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae, Satyrinae, Brassolini): an integrative approach (Zootaxa 5216) 278 pp.; 30 cm. 6 Dec. 2022
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Re: second Brassolid to ID

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Thank you.
I did join researchgate and I requested a copy.
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I did get the document, thank you for your help.
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