A new species of the genus Tibira Orlandin, Piovesan & Carneiro, 2024 from Northeast Brasil (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea, Apatelodidae)

Elton Orlandin; Mônica Piovesan

doi:10.13133/2284-4880/1923

A new species of the genus Tibira Orlandin, Piovesan & Carneiro, 2024 from Northeast Brasil (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea, Apatelodidae)

Authors

Elton Orlandin Universidade Federal do Paraná https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1987-9727
Mônica Piovesan Universidade Federal do Paraná https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3367-9358

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13133/2284-4880/1923

Keywords:

American silkworm moths, Atlantic Forest, Biodiversity, Morphology, Neotropical

Abstract

A new species of Tibira Orlandin, Piovesan & Carneiro, 2024 (Lepidoptera: Apatelodidae), Tibira paraguassu sp. nov. is described from the Atlantic Forest of the Northeast Brazil (Bahia state). It is compared with Tibira eadgara (Schaus, 1934), a similar species; photographs of the adult males and genitalia of both species are provided, as well as photographs of the female and genitalia of Tibira paraguassu sp. nov.

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Published

2026-06-30

How to Cite

Orlandin, E. and Piovesan, M. (2026) “A new species of the genus Tibira Orlandin, Piovesan & Carneiro, 2024 from Northeast Brasil (Lepidoptera: Bombycoidea, Apatelodidae)”, Fragmenta entomologica, 58(1), pp. 101–106. doi: 10.13133/2284-4880/1923.