Annotated List Of Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) Of A Guatemalan Dry Forest, With Two First Records For Guatemala

An updated list of butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) of two Guatemalan seasonally dry forests

“…This climatic trait fits the definition of seasonally dry tropical forests (4-6 months with rainfall being < 100 mm; Dirzo et al 2011); see fig. 1 in Yoshimoto et al (2018) andfig. 3 in Yoshimoto et al (2019) for detailed precipitation information of each area.…”

“…Table A1. Butterfly species observed in 2011-2021 at two dry forests in Guatemala: Los Cerritos Municipal Park and Heloderma Natural Reserve, based on our previous studies (Yoshimoto et al 2018(Yoshimoto et al , 2019 and on subsequent field surveys (July 2014 to August 2021 at Los Cerritos and October 2017 to November 2021 at Heloderma Reserve). Species and months in bold indicate the data newly obtained in the subsequent surveys.…”

“…* Specimens not collected (recorded only by direct observation or photographs). MI Species misidentified in Yoshimoto et al (2018Yoshimoto et al ( or 2019; their previous identification results are shown in Table 1. 1 Listed at the genus level because of the difficulty of species-level identification derived from the confused taxonomic state of this genus.…”

“…Butterfly species that were sampled at Los Cerritos and Heloderma Reserve (abbreviated as LC and HR, respectively) and were misidentified inYoshimoto et al (2018Yoshimoto et al ( , 2019. Corrected species names are shown in bold.…”

“… Abstract Guatemala has a great diversity of butterflies, although there have been few intensive surveys on Lepidoptera in the country so far. We present an updated list of 218 species in 149 genera, 19 subfamilies, and six families of butterflies sampled at two seasonally dry forests in the Salamá and Motagua valleys in central and eastern Guatemala, by integrating new data from field surveys conducted in 2014–2021 into our previously published data ( Yoshimoto et al 2018 , 2019 ), with Amblyscirtes elissa elissa Godman, 1900, Repens florus (Godman, 1900), and Niconiades nikko Hayward, 1948 ( Hesperiidae : Hesperiinae ) as new country records. We collected a hairstreak species, Chalybs hassan (Stoll, 1790) ( Lycaenidae : Theclinae ), at the Motagua Valley site, representing the second record for Guatemala since the early 20 th century, after we rediscovered it at the Salamá Valley site in 2011 and 2012 ( Yoshimoto and Salinas-Gutiérrez 2015 ).…”