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Mnesarete cf machadoi

A Mnesarete species, but which one? From Lencioni I find 2 species occuring in Goias, but this is no guarantee that there aren't more.
- Mnesarete guttifera
- Mnesarete machadoi
In part 2 of Lencioni there is a photo of a male M. guttifera, which:
- is not pruinose
- seems to have a small dark part at the tip of the wing that seems to be absent in the individual on my photos.
Mnesarete machadoi is originally described in 2006 from Lago das Capivaras in Parque National das Emas. This is only 5 kilometers away from where I photographed this male, in the same Parque National.
Looking through Lencioni, it seems that Mnesarete pruinosa might also be an option. It isn't mentioned for Goias, but like M. pruinosa this male has a pruinose thorax (maybe more pruinose than M. pruinosa?) and it has a whitish wash to the base of the wings....

01/02/2008
I now found the article on Mnesarete by Rosser Garrison.
http://www.nhm.org/research/publications/Contributions_in_Science/CS506.pdf
Apparently M. machadoi, M. lencioni, M. pruinosa and M. hyalina are fairly similar in appearance. Of these only M. machadoi is known from the region. It fits the description of M. machadoi near perfectly, except that in the description nothing is said about whitish on the wingbase and of pruinosity on the base of the abdomen.

02/02/2008
I shared my photos and thoughts in an e-mail with Rosser Garrison. He confirms that it seems to be M. machadoi.
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