Table 1.
Distribution, biological associations, and species-groups of the Neotropical species of the subgenus Aleiodes Wesmael, 1838, related to the gastritor species-group. The biological information is based on Townsend and Shaw (2009), Abreu et al. (2014), Shimbori and Shaw (2014), Yu et al. (2016), and Sharkey et al. (2021)
| Species | Distribution | Host Species | Host family | Plant | Plant family |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gastritor species-group | |||||
| aclydis Townsend | Ecuador | Geometridae | Ocotea | Lauraceae | |
| albigena Shimbori & Shaw | Ecuador | nr. Desmotricha | Erebidae | Chusquea scandens | Poaceae |
| albiterminus Townsend | Ecuador | Geometridae | Alnus acuminata | Betulaceae | |
| alessandracallejae Sharkey | Costa Rica | ||||
| alisundermieri Sharkey | Costa Rica | ||||
| alvarougaldei Sharkey | Costa Rica | ||||
| alvaroumanai Sharkey | Costa Rica | Syngamia florella | Crambridae | Spermacoce exilis | Rubiaceae |
| arbitrium Townsend | Ecuador | Psaliodes castanea | Geometridae | Diplazium costale; Dennstaedtia cornuta | Dryopteridadceae; Dennstaedtiaceae |
| argentiniensis Shimbori & Martinez | Argentina | ||||
| atripileatus Townsend | Ecuador | Hypena sp. | Noctuidae | Phenax rugosus, Boemeria bullata, Miriocarpa sp. | Urticaceae |
| bimaculatus Shimbori & Shaw | Ecuador | ||||
| bonariensis (Brèthes) | Argentina | ||||
| cacuangoi Shimbori & Shaw | Ecuador | “linea blanca en la espalda chusquea” | Geometridae | C. scandens | Poaceae |
| ceres sp. n | Argentina; Brazil | Spodoptera cosmioides, S. eridania; S. frugiperda | Noctuidae |
Glycine max; Zea mays |
Fabaceae Poaceae |
| falloni Shimbori & Shaw | Ecuador | ||||
| gossypii (Muesebeck) | Brazil; Colombia; Peru; Venezuela | Alabama argilacea; Anomis sp. | Erebidae | Gossypium sp. | Malvaceae |
| laphygmae (Viereck) | North and Central America | Mythimna unipuncta, Spodoptera spp. | Noctuidae | Many | |
| leptocarina Fortier | Costa Rica | Dysschema viuda | Erebidae | Zanthoxylum riedelianum | Rutaceae |
| luteosicarius Shimbori & Shaw | Ecuador | ||||
| manuelzumbadoi Sharkey | Costa Rica | ||||
| manuelzumbadoi Sharkey | Costa Rica | ||||
| mirandae Shimbori & Shaw | Ecuador | “palito café chusquea” | Geometridae | C. scandens | Poaceae |
| napo Shimbori & Shaw | Ecuador | “raya roja a los lados chusquea” | Noctuidae | C. scandens | Poaceae |
| nubicola Shimbori & Shaw | Ecuador | “palito café chusquea” | Geometridae | C. scandens | Poaceae |
| onyx Shimbori & Shaw | Ecuador | “espalda tomate rubiacea” | Zygaenidae | Notopleura plagiantha | Rubiaceae |
| pauljohnsoni Sharkey | Costa Rica | Erosia veninotata | Uraniidae | Randia grandifolia | Rubiaceae |
| yanayacu Shimbori & Shaw | Ecuador | Geometridae | Phenax rugosus | Urticaceae | |
| shakirae species-group | |||||
| alejandromasisi Sharkey | Costa Rica | ||||
| davefurthi Sharkey | Costa Rica | Herbita medona | Geometridae | Hirtella racemosa | Chrysobalanaceae |
| japi Shimbori & Penteado-Dias | Brazil | Physocleora grosica; Ischnopteris sp. | Geometridae | Alchornea triplinervia | Euphorbiaceae |
| michelledsouzae Sharkey | Costa Rica | Yidalpta auragali* | Erebidae* | Securidaca sylvestris | Polygalaceae |
| shakirae Shimbori & Shaw | Ecuador | “palito café chusquea” | Geometridae | C. scandens | Poaceae |
| speciosus Townsend | Ecuador | Miconia sp. | Melastomataceae | ||
| townsendi Shimbori & Shaw | Ecuador | Geometridae | Dendrophobium lloense | Asteraceae | |
| Species-group not assigned | |||||
| kingmani Shimbori & Shaw | Ecuador | Geometridae | C. scandens | Poaceae | |
| tzantza Shimbori & Shaw | Ecuador | Noctuidae | |||
*Host record for A. michelledsouzae is based on a mummy collected on the referred plant (Voucher Code: 11-SRNP-31492; Parasite code: DHJPAR0042782: “encontrado con momia de parásito silvestre en estadío intermedio entre PU y U, tome fotos de la momia”). Images of the mummy (available at http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu/caterpillars/database.lasso) indicate it is most likely from a Geometridae caterpillar