New Host Plant Records for Ragadia luzonia and Acrophtalmia yamashitai (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) from Negros Island, Philippines, with a Summary of Spike Moss-Feeding Butterflies
A new larval host plant, Selaginella engleri (Selaginellaceae), is recorded for both Ragadia luzonia negrosensis Yamaguchi & Aoki, 1982 and Acrophtalmia yamashitai yamashitai Uémura & Yamaguchi, 1982 from Negros Island, Philippines. The egg and first larval instar are described and illustrated. Other butterflies using Selaginella spike mosses as larval host plants are also listed and discussed.
Authors
- Jade Aster T. Badon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0529-0778)
- David J. Lohman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0689-2906)
- Jeanette Mara Tan Sumagaysay
Institutions
- University of the Philippines Los Baños (PH)
- The Graduate Center, CUNY (US)
- National Taiwan Normal University (TW)
- National Museum of Natural History (US)
- City University of New York (US)
- Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica (TW)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society
- Published
- 2024-11-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.18473/lepi.78i4.a5
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.55