A new species of from Mexico (Hesperiidae, Pyrginae, Pyrrhopygini).

is described from the Sierra Madre Oriental of east-central Mexico. Visually similar to Mesoamerican Staudinger, 1888 in having five orange bands on the abdomen above, it is diagnosed by orange forecoxae and palpi beneath, narrower forewing hyaline bands and a prominent 6% difference in the COI DNA barcode sequence. It is the northernmost representative of the species group that also includes Grishin & Burns, 2013, characterized by a single-banded abdomen and currently known only from the Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica. Both and possess white forecoxae and ventral palpi. This new discovery brings the total number of C. & R. Felder, 1862 species to five.