Artines aquilina (Plotz, 1882)

Medeiros, Adalberto Dantas De, Dolibaina, Diego Rodrigo, Carneiro, Eduardo, Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik & Casagrande, Mirna Martins, 2019, Taxonomic revision of Artines Godman, 1901 (Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae: Moncini) with the description of nine new species, Zootaxa 4614 (1), pp. 1-49 : 21

“ aquilina group”

Figs 2–3, 14–18, 20, 21–25, 36–40, 49–53, 61–64, 73–76, 80

Description. Male and female: dorsal forewing with semi-hyaline and large discal spots; ventral forewing with or without white spot in distal 1/2 of CuA 2 –2A; ventral hind wing with discal area yellow to orange, with a central black spot and a yellow postdiscal band limited distally by ground stripe, wavy or not. Male: brand present; saccus wide and long, shape variable; uncus long and narrow; arms of gnathos with pointed apexes; valva with distal projection composed of harpe and ampulla, with triangular aspect from 1/2 its length; harpe simple and fused with ampulla; aedeagus without disto-dorsal projection; ventral projection of aedeagus wide, distally bifid or trifid, diverging ventrally at angle of approximately 45 degrees with aedeagus; cornutus as a moderately sclerotized plate over most of vesica and with spines of variable thickness and length; fultura inferior arched in lateral view, proximal end simple. Female: externally similar to male; region between seventh sternite and lamella antevaginalis membranous; sterigma partly sclerotized, rectangular and joined with tergum by the lateral plate ( Fig. 61A); lamella postvaginalis with one or two sclerotized plates ( Fig. 62B); lateral fold of lamella postvaginalis membranous ( Fig. 61B); ductus bursae with basal portion sclerotized or membranous.

Included species: Artines aquilina ( Plötz, 1882) , Artines angelica Medeiros sp. nov., Artines focus Evans, 1955 , Artines cofus Medeiros & Dolibaina sp. nov. and Artines donia Medeiros & Carneiro sp. nov.