The distribution of the genus Neda Mulsant in Peru is expanded with the record of three species in the southeastern department of Cusco: Neda patula Erichson, 1847, Neda aequatoriana Mulsant, 1853 (first record for the department), and Neda boliviana Weise,...
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The distribution of the genus Neda Mulsant in Peru is expanded with the record of three species in the southeastern department of Cusco: Neda patula Erichson, 1847, Neda aequatoriana Mulsant, 1853 (first record for the department), and Neda boliviana Weise, 1898, which confirms its presence in the country. The collections were made in the Apurimac River Valley, in an altitudinal range between 2700-3100 m, where in the town of Choquequirao the three species of the genus are present sharing the habitat. The great similarity in the genital apparatus of the three species, and of the rest of the Andean species of the genus, forces to support the identifications in the external morphology, of wide variability in most of the Neda species and raises the need to study if they are valid species or variations of a single species.
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