Arachnis bituminosa Seitz, 1920

Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), Zoosystema 36 (2), pp. 137-533 : 410-411

Arachnis bituminosa Seitz, 1920

Arachnis bituminosa Seitz, 1920: 315 .

Arachnis tristis Rothschild, 1935: 248 . — Type locality: Mexico, [ Mexico], Zacualpan. — Type specimens: Undisclosed number of male syntypes (BMNH; one of the syntypes labeled TYPE).

TYPE LOCALITY. — Mexico.

TYPE SPECIMENS. — Undisclosed number of male syntypes ( SMF; one female specimen and one male specimen labeled “ bituminosa ” by Seitz’s hand) .

REMARK

The female specimen of Arachnis bituminosa belongs to the genus Euchaetes .

Genus Metacrisiodes Dyar, 1916 ( Fig. 22C )

Metacrisiodes Dyar, 1916: 8 . Exemasia Dyar, 1920: 31 . — Type species: Exemasia ochropasa Dyar, 1920 , by original designation.

TYPE SPECIES. — Metacrisiodes pua Dyar, 1916 , by original designation.

Figures

FIG. 22. — A-H, dorsal views. A, Hypercompe icasia (Cramer, [1777]) (male syntype of its synonym, Hypercompe guadulpensis (Oberthür, 1881), Guadeloupe (BMNH)); B, Arachnis aulaea (Geyer, 1837) (male holotype of its synonym, Arachnis incarnata (Walker, 1855), Mexico (BMNH)); C, Metacrisiodes pua Dyar, 1916, holotype male, Mexico, Guerrero Mill (MNHN); D, Lafajana cupra Dognin, 1891, holotype male, Ecuador, Loja (USNM); E, Hypomolis evippus (Druce, 1898), Bolivia, Monteagudo (coll. B. V.); F, Chlorhoda rufoviridis (Walker, [1865]), holotype male, Colombia, Bogotá (BMNH); G, Palaeomolis purpurascens Hampson, 1909, syntype male, Peru, Agualani (BMNH); H, Mallocephala rubripes Blanchard, 1852 (senior synonym of Mallocephala rhodosoma (Hampson, 1907), holotype male, Chile, Temuco (BMNH)). Scale bars: 0.5 cm.