Immature stages and host plant records for the skipper butterflies Xeniades orchamus (Cramer, 1777), Dubia dubia (Bell, 1932), and Tricrista canta (Evans, 1955) in the Peruvian Amazon (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae: Hesperiini)

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dc.contributor.affiliationPontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de Ingeniería
dc.contributor.authorSherer, A.
dc.contributor.authorRaghuraman, S.
dc.contributor.authorNakahara, S.
dc.contributor.authorGallice, G.
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-13T17:00:13Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractWe describe the immature biology of three skipper species in the tribe Hesperiini (Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae), Xeniades orchamus Cramer in the subtribe Hesperiina, and Dubia dubia Bell and Tricrista canta Evans in the subtribe Moncina. All species were recorded feeding on Guadua weberbaueri Pilger (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Bambuseae). One larva of each species was collected in nature at Finca Las Piedras, a biological research station located in the Amazonian lowlands of Madre de Dios, Peru. Larvae were reared to adulthood in an onsite laboratory using leaves from G. weberbaueri. We present measurements, descriptions, durations, and photographs of recorded larval instars and pupae, illustrations of larval head capsules, and details of the host plant.
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding: We would like to acknowledge Rafael Tejeira and Rodrigo Ccahuana for assistance with head capsule illustrations. We thank Ximena Londoño for sharing expertise in Guadua identification, André Freitas for assisting us with interpreting information from literature in Portuguese. The authors are grateful for research coordination assistance from Zunilda Escalante Arteaga and Lizett Zayury Retuerto Silva. We additionally acknowledge contributions to lepidopteran rearing throughout the 2022 data collection period from Cristian Ary Vásquez Castro, Delia Cretu, Halle Wood, Kairi, Lucero Gordillo Salazar, Yulisa Sari Soto-Quispe, Charlotte Brené, Manuela Osorio Vera, Natalie Helen Brimson, Sean Liam Baldock, Thalia Hurtado Zegarra, and Lizett Zayury Retuerto Silva. We are grateful to Mary Sears and the Ernst Mayr Library (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University) for providing access to literature cited in the present work. GRG acknowledges the financial support of Wild Green Future. Field work was authorized by Peru's Servicio Nacional Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre (SERFOR) (permit no.D000443-2021-MIDAGRI-SERFOR-DGGSPFFS).
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5609.3.5
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14657/206536
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMagnolia Press
dc.relation.ispartofurn:issn:1175-5326
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.sourceZootaxa; Vol. 5609, Núm. 3 (2025)
dc.subjectBiology
dc.subjectLepidoptera genitalia
dc.subjectInstar
dc.subjectLarva
dc.subjectPupa
dc.subjectHost (biology)
dc.subjectAmazon rainforest
dc.subjectBotany
dc.subjectZoology
dc.subjectEcology
dc.subject.ocdehttps://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.06.13
dc.titleImmature stages and host plant records for the skipper butterflies Xeniades orchamus (Cramer, 1777), Dubia dubia (Bell, 1932), and Tricrista canta (Evans, 1955) in the Peruvian Amazon (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae: Hesperiini)
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