Eur. J. Entomol. 118: 64-81, 2021 | DOI: 10.14411/eje.2021.009

Three new species of the Xylophanes crotonis species-group (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) from Colombia and a neotype designation for Xylophanes aristorOriginal article

Yenny CORREA-CARMONA ORCID...1,2, Alessandro GIUSTI ORCID...3, Jean HAXAIRE ORCID...4, Rodolphe ROUGERIE ORCID...5, Ian J. KITCHING ORCID...3
1 CEFE, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Univ Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, Montpellier, France; e-mail: yennycorreacarmona@gmail.com
2 Grupo de Entomología Universidad de Antioquia (GEUA), Medellín AA 1226, Colombia
3 Insects Division, Life Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK; e-mails: a.giusti@nhm.ac.uk, i.kitching@nhm.ac.uk
4 Correspondent of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France; e-mail: jeanhaxaire@sfr.fr
5 Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, Paris, France; e-mail: rodolphe.rougerie@mnhn.fr

Three new species of the hawkmoth genus Xylophanes Hübner, 1819 from Colombia are described based on morphological characters and DNA barcodes: Xylophanes camilae Correa-Carmona & Giusti sp. n., Xylophanes pijao Giusti & Correa-Carmona sp. n., and Xylophanes tayrona Correa-Carmona & Giusti sp. n. The new species are compared with the most morphologically similar species within the informal Xylophanes crotonis species-group: Xylophanes aristor (Boisduval, 1870), Xylophanes crotonis (Walker, 1856) and Xylophanes huloti Haxaire & Vaglia, 2008. Diagnoses, distribution maps, photographs of genital structures and habitus are provided for each new species. In addition, a dichotomous key is provided to identify the new species and the most morphologically similar species within the group. To stabilize the nomenclature and fix the taxon concept, a neotype is designated for Xylophanes aristor.

Keywords: Lepidoptera, Sphingidae, Colombia, DNA barcoding, neighbor-joining tree, neotype, new species, species delimitation, taxonomy, Xylophanes crotonis species-group

Received: May 5, 2020; Revised: February 12, 2021; Accepted: February 12, 2021; Published online: March 19, 2021  Show citation

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CORREA-CARMONA, Y., GIUSTI, A., HAXAIRE, J., ROUGERIE, R., & KITCHING, I.J. (2021). Three new species of the Xylophanes crotonis species-group (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) from Colombia and a neotype designation for Xylophanes aristor. EJE, 118, Article 64-81. https://doi.org/10.14411/eje.2021.009
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