Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Ithomiinae, Scada reckia reckia: Suggestion of recent range expansion throughout the state of Espírito Santo, SE Brazil

The butterfly Scada reckia reckia (Hubner [1808]) is a small black and yellow Ithomiinae that occurs in most forested habitats near the Northeastern Brazilian coast (Brown 1979). Historically, this taxon has been observed in rain forests and semideciduous forests from the states of Paraiba to South Bahia (Fox 1967; Brown 1979), and this is a relatively common ithomiine species in most forests of the states of Alagoas, Pernambuco, and Paraiba (see Cardoso 1949; Kesselring and Ebert 1979; Freitas and Brown 2005). During more than 50 years of field observations, no populations were registered South of Itamaraju, South Bahia (16°57' S; 39°33' W) (Brown 1979), and no individuals of this species were recorded in the state of Espirito Santo (Brown 1979; Brown and Freitas 2000; and unpublished results).