Eudocima procus ( Cramer, 1777 )

Borth, Robert J. & Kons, Hugo L., 2022, Mitochondrial genetics of Ophiderini, with a new species from the Eudocima phalonia species group (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Calpinae), Zootaxa 5148 (1), pp. 1-151 : 14

Eudocima procus ( Cramer, 1777)

( Figs 6 : A–B, 18: A, 23: A–D, 30: B, 91: I)

This species has a unique hindwing character: the medial patch is expanded into a median band extending across the entire wing from the costa to the inner margin. The band is comprised of four comma-shaped patches fused together. Other Eudocima species have at most two comma-shaped patches fused together. The hindwing marginal band is disjunct from the wing margin except between veins Cu2 and M3. Females without hindwings exposed could be confused with E serpentifera or E. colubra , but E. procus has a contrasting pale triangle on the proximal side of the PM line between veins Cu2 and Cu1, which is absent in the other two species. This species feeds on Odontocarya tamoides (Menispermaceae) in Honduras ( Caballero et al. 1994). Eudocima procus is relatively common and widespread from Bolivia and Peru up to Mexico.

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FIGURE 6. Neotropical Eudocima, Tetrisia, and Graphigona adults (dorsal aspect).