Drephalys: Division of this showy neotropical genus, plus a new species and the immatures and food plants of two species from Costa Rican dry forest (Hesperiidae: Pyrginae)

Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 77-89

  Burns, John M ^a   Janzen, Daniel H ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Drephalys (Drephalys) alcmon; Drephalys (Drephalys) kidonoi burns; Drephalys (Paradrephalys) burns; Hirtella racemosa (Chrysobalanaceae); New species; New subgenus; Roupala montana (Proteaceae)

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; LARVA; NEW SPECIES;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0342646941     PISSN: 00240966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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