Orophila Staudinger, 1886

Zubek, Anna, Pyrcz, Tomasz, Lorenc-Brudecka, Jadwiga, Boyer, Pierre, Cerdeña, Jose, Mahecha-Jiménez, Oscar & Huertas, Blanca, 2017, Systematic revision of the Andean butterfly genus Orophila Staudinger, 1886 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Biblidinae), Zootaxa 4258 (5), pp. 443-461 : 446

Orophila Staudinger, 1886

Orophila Schatz : Staudinger 1886, 112 (Type species: Cybdelis campaspe Hewitson 1869 , by subsequent designation by Hemming, 1967: 325).

= Odontosama Aurivillius 1929: 161 (an objective synonym (Lamas 2004)), Type species: not designated.)

Orophila Schatz [sic]: Schatz, 1888: 144 –145.

Orophila Staudinger : Hemming, 1967, 325; Descimon 1985: 71; Bridges, 1988: IV: 86 and V: 15; Neild, 1996: 54; Lamas 2004: 245.

Redescription of characters of the genus. MALE: medium size butterflies (FW length 16–23 mm) Head: eyes chocolate brown, densely hairy; antennae reaching to 2/3 the length of costa, dorsally brown, ventrally yellow, with a patch of white scales at each segment, club elongated, flattened, approx. twice thicker than shaft; labial palpi 1.5 times the length of head, dorsally brown, ventrally creamy-yellowish; Thorax: brown, with dorsal and ventral surface covered with long, hair-like scales, matching the DH and VH coloration, respectively; Legs: femur pale yellow to white, underside covered with long hair similar to those on the underside of thorax, tibia and tarsus darker than femur, covered with creamy-light brown scales, tibial spurs present; Abdomen: brown, partly covered with long hair-like scales, similar to those on thorax; FW triangular with wavy outer margin, pronounced at M1–M2; discal cell open; DF ground colour blackish-brown with metallic blue markings; VF ground colour dark brown, with red basal patch and lighter subapical area; HW rounded, with wavy outer margin and a rounded lobe at the base of costal margin; DH ground colour blackish-brown with ashen-blue and metallic blue markings; VH ground colour patchy, grey and brown, with various with red and yellowish patterns.

MALE GENITALIA: valvae long and rounded posteriorly, uncus curved ventrally, shorter than tegumen, hairy, with a narrowed tip, tegumen wide and regularly domed, gnathos long and slim, almost as long as uncus, vinculum with a lobe-like, hairy process located below the valva, saccus long and thin, slightly arched ventrally, aedeagus long and thin, arched dorsally, hypandrium relatively long, with a wide, semicircular proximal incision, distal end in a form of U-shaped or W-shaped fork, depending on the species, collar long and narrow, widening over into the triangular body.

FEMALE: slightly smaller, differs from male in: DF discal metallic rays shorter, median blue markings larger and paler, DH ashen-blue submarginal band reduced; dorsal wing pattern very similar in all species; ventral wing pattern same as in males.

FEMALE GENITALIA: papillae anales slightly sclerotized interiorly, thin apophyses posteriores with clubshaped tips, ostium bursae wide and irregularly shaped; lamella antevaginalis expanded into a large pleated lobe; posterior half of ductus bursae sclerotized, followed by a wider, unsclerotized part, widening smoothly into corpus bursae; signa in a form of two small sclerotized dots, corpus bursae oval, as long as ductus bursae.