Redonda chiquinquirana

Redonda chiquinquirana is a butterfly species from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae. It is endemic from the Cordillera de Merida páramo in Venezuela, in northern South America. R. chiquinquirana show high degree of sexual dimorphism in wingsize, in which females show some degree of wing deformation which might point to incipient brachyptery.^[2]

Redonda chiquinquirana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Redonda
Species:	R. chiquinquirana
Binomial name
Redonda chiquinquirana Ferrer-Paris, 2015[1]

Taxonomy and nomenclature

Populations of this species were often referred to as an undescribed subspecies of Redonda empetrus.^[1][3][4]

Conservation

Redonda chiquinquirana is listed as endangered in Venezuela's Red Book of Fauna.^[5]

References

1. Viloria, Ángel L.; Ferrer-Paris, José R.; Camacho, Jesús; Costa, Mauro (2013) [2015]. "New satyrine butterflies from the Venezuelan Andes (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)". Anartia. 25: 95–160. doi:10.5281/zenodo.18332. S2CID 81979721.
2. Viloria, A.L.; Pyrcz, T.W.; Ferrer-Paris, J.R.; Beccaloni, G.; Sattler, K.; Lees, D.C. (2003). "A brachypterous butterfly?". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B. 270 (S1): 21–24. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2003.0015. PMC 1698010. PMID 12952626.
3. Ferrer-Paris, J. R. (2000). Der Genus Redonda (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae): Fallstudie über Anpassung und Verbreitung in den Páramos von Venezuela [The genus Redonda (Lepidoptera: Satyrinae): a model to study adaptation and distribution in the páramos of Venezuela] (Dipl. Biol. thesis). Bayreuth: Universität Bayreuth.
4. Pyrcz, T. W. (2010). "Evolution of butterflies of the genus Redonda (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), and their adaptation to the high Andean environment". In Mirek, Z.; Flakus, A.; Krzanowska, A.; Paulo, A.; Wojtusiak, J. (eds.). The Nature and Culture of Latin America. Review of Polish Studies. Kraków: Szafer Institute of Botany, Polish Academy of Sciences. pp. 265–273. ISBN 978-83-89648-85-3.
5. Ferrer-París, J. R. y Viloria, A. L. (2015). Mariposa paramera de Mucubají, Redonda chiquinquirana. En: J.P. Rodríguez, A. García-Rawlins y F. Rojas-Suárez (eds.) Libro Rojo de la Fauna Venezolana. Cuarta edición. Provita y Fundación Empresas Polar, Caracas, Venezuela. Recuperado de: Lun, 09/05/2016 - 11:56