title: Exoskeleton Morphology of Three Species of Preponini, with Discussion of Morphological Similarities among Neotropical Charaxinae (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)-III. Abdomen and Genitalia.
abstract: The present paper is the final part of a study of the external morphology of Preponini, which compares the abdomen and genitalia of Archaeoprepona demophon demophon (Linnaeus, 1758), Archaeoprepona licomedes licomedes (Cramer, 1777) and Prepona pylene pylene Hewitson, [1854], through descriptions and illustrations. The results are compared with three other species, Prepona claudina annetta (Gray, 1832), Memphis moruus stheno Hübner, [1819] and Zaretis itys itylus (Westwood, 1850). The abdomen is commonly the most informative tagma for butterflies. In Charaxinae, this tagma supports diagnoses of both genera and species, besides providing a solid morphological base for recent molecular findings for Preponini.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Zoologia, Setor de Ciências Biológicas; Universidade Federal do Paraná, C. P.: 19020, 81531-980; Curitiba, Parana, Brazil.
authors.forename: Dayana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bonfantti
authors.forename: Mirna Martins
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Casagrande
authors.forename: Olaf Hermann Hendrik
authors.initials: OH
authors.lastname: Mielke
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D000818:Animals; D002080:Butterflies / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D005836:Genitalia, Female / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D005837:Genitalia, Male / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D008297:Male; D013045:Species Specificity
keywords: Archaeoprepona; Prepona; adults; comparative morphology