Elina Blanchard, 1852

Matz, Jess & Brower, Andrew V. Z., 2016, The South Temperate Pronophilina (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae): a phylogenetic hypothesis, redescriptions and revisionary notes, Zootaxa 4125 (1), pp. 1-108 : 26-27

Elina Blanchard, 1852

Type species: Elina vanessoides Blanchard, 1852 Diagnosis. This genus is most easily distinguished by the mottled patterning on the dorsal side of the forewing that includes an apical ocellus between M1-M3 appearing as an indistinct unpupillated patch of dark chocolate brown to black and a hindwing with a deeply scalloped termen. Fringe scales on the forewing are layered in ivory and dark chocolate, giving the appearance of fine crenulation. Antennae terminate in a spatulate club. Eyes are hairy, more sparsely in E. montrolii than in E. vanessoides , palps are longitudinally striped, and foreleg tarsi are unsegmented in both sexes. Genitalia of the two species are similar, the uncus widest where it joins the tegumen and the aedeagus nearly even in width throughout, unadorned by serrations.

Remarks. Distributions span Valparaíso to central Los Lagos Provinces with both species found in Auraucanía to northern Los Lagos Province, Chile and Chubut and Neuquén Provinces of Argentina.