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Abstract
This paper describes two new species of Neotropical butterflies: Yphthimoides blanquita Barbosa, Marín and Freitas sp. nov., from the dry forest of northwestern Colombia, and Yphthimoides nareta Barbosa & Freitas sp. nov. from northeastern Brazil, based on morphological and molecular data. Adult morphology, including wing shape and pattern as well as male genitalia, is described in detail. Furthermore, analysis of the mitochondrial CoxI ‘barcode’ showed that both new species are quite distinct from all similar Yphthimoides species and additionally, the ‘renata clade’ is defined based on the presence of cornuti in the aedeagus.
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Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank Gerardo Lamas, Keith Willmott, Leila T. Shirai and two anonymous reviewers for critical reading of the manuscript, and Dimitre Ivanov for the English revision. The authors would also like to thank the following researchers for helping with data collection and/or access to museum collections: Blanca Huertas (NHMUK), Thamara Zacca, Ricardo Siewert, Olaf Mielke (DZUP), Alexandre Soares (MNRJ) and Marcelo Duarte (MZUSP). The following people helped by sending us material and general information for the new species: Douglas H. A. Melo (Y. nareta), Carolina Casas Pinilla and Jhon Alveiro Quiroz (Y. blanquita). Thanks to Tamara M. C. Aguiar for spreading specimens and Augusto Rosa for photographing some spread individuals. EPB acknowledges FAPESP (2012/03750-8) for a graduate fellowship. MAM acknowledges FAPESP (2014/16481-0) for a graduate fellowship and Colciencias (1118-521-28378). SIU thanks the Sistema Nacional Ambiental (SINA) for permission to collect and access to genetic resources No. 4 of 7 May 2011. AVLF thanks the Brazilian Research Council – Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq grants 302585/2011-7 and 303834/2015-3), and the National Science Foundation (DEB-1256742). This publication is part of the RedeLep ‘Rede Nacional de Pesquisa e Conservação de Lepidópteros’ SISBIOTA-Brasil/CNPq (563332/2010-7), of the project ‘Identificação Molecular de Biodiversidade de Invertebrados Terrestres’ (grant 564954/2010-1) included in the ‘Rede Nacional de Identificação Molecular da Biodiversidade – BR-BoL’ (MCT/CNPq/FNDCT 50/2010), and of the BIOTA-FAPESP Program (2011/50225-3 and 2013/50297-0).
Associate Editor: Eduardo Dominguez.