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931020.1 – 8685 Zale lafontainei Troubridge, 2020

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Distribution:	USA: Florida.
Similar Species:	Pinned specimens of related species. (Hint: select View by Region on the related species page.)
Synonymy:	obsita; (not , Guenée, 1852) (Homoptera) Type locality: Brazil. lafontainei Troubridge, 2020 (Zale) Type locality: Holotype: USA: Florida, Monroe Co.: Bahia Honda State Park. obsita of authors; (not Guenée, 1852) (Homoptera) misappl.
Taxonomic Notes:	Zale lafontainei Troubridge, 2020, n. sp., Insecta Mundi, 0789: 20, Fig. 7a, 7b, 7c, 71, 123. This species was listed as Zale viridans of authors; (not Guenée, 1852) in Lafontaine & Schmidt (2015) and includes as synonyms Z. strigimacula of authors; (not Guenée, 1852) from Florida and Z. obsita of authors; (not Guenée, 1852) from Florida in Schmidt, Lafontaine & Troubridge (2018). This species is in the Zale strigimacula species complex near Zale erilda Schaus, 1940 and is represented at BOLD under the name Zale n. sp. 5 in BOLD:ACD9041, a BIN group which includes examples from Puerto Rico identified as Z. erilda. "True" Z. viridans is extralimital north of Mexico and was removed from the list in Lafontaine & Schmidt 2015.

References

Barcode of Life (BOLD) - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification, and some BOLD specimens shown may not be sequenced.
Barcode of Life (BOLD) - BIN: BOLD:ACD9041 - Caution: DNA barcode provides evidence of relatedness, not proof of identification.
Guenée, M.A., 1852. Noctuelites, 3. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Species Général des Lépidoptères, 7: 12.
Lafontaine J.D. & B.C. Schmidt, 2015. Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico III. ZooKeys, 527: 127-147.
Schmidt, B.C., J.D. Lafontaine & J.T. Troubridge, 2018. Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico IV. ZooKeys, 788: 241-252.
Species Page at BugGuide.Net
Troubridge, J.T., 2020. A new genus and 37 new noctuoid species from peninsular Florida and the Keys (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Insecta Mundi, 0789: 1-56.