Correbia affinis (Druce)

The type specimen of Pionia affinis Druce, dorsal, ventral and labels, respectively. The specimen is located in the Natural History Museum, London.

Photographs by R. Simmons.

Original Description: Druce, H. 1884. Biologia Centrali-Americana: Insecta; Lepidoptera, volume 1, p. 77, plate 9, fig. 4: "Primaries uniform, browinsh yellow, with the apices black; secondaries blackish hyaline; head, thorax, and the sides of the abdomen the same colour as the primaries: antennae, palpi, and abdomen black. Expanse 1 1/2 inch. Hab. GUATEMALA, Teleman (Champion).

This species is allied to P. agnonides." Image below is Figure 4, plate 9. **

Description in Hampson (1898): "Male. Head and thorax orange-red; palpi and antennae black, the former orange below; a blackish patch on vertex of head; abdomen with lateral orange stripes tapering to a point and not extending to the last two segments; the first for segments orange below, joined to a spot on 4th segment. Fore wing orange-red, with rounded apical blue-black patch. Hind wing fuscous, hyaline towards base, the costal area orange-red, the apex black. Hab. Guatemala (Champion), 1 male type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 42 millim."

 

Specimens examined: To be inserted.

 

DNA collected: D1 (2 specimens, 321 base pairs), COI (1 specimen, 727 base pairs)

 

Genitalia Illustrations: To be inserted.

 

** The original description was obtained through the Electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana, Smithsonian Institution Libraries http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/bca/