Correbia agnonides (Druce)

The type specimen of Pionia agnonides 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: " Primaries dark brownish yellow, with a V-shaped mark on the costal margins, and the apices black; secondaries hyaline, the outer margins slightly shaded with black: head and thorax fulvous; abdomen and legs black. Expanse 1 1/2 inch. Hab. NICARAGUA, Chontales (Belt, mus. D.). This specimen is in poor condition; it was in one of the first collections sent by the late Mr. Belt to the late Mr. Hewitson, who kindly forwarded the moths to me."**

 

Description in Hampson (1898): "Male. Head and thorax orange-yellow; legs mostly black, tarsi ringed wtih white; abdomen black, with lateral yellow fasciae extending to 5th segment; the ventral surface orange to 5th segment. Fore wing orange-yellow, with black spot in the middle of cell extending just below it and with some cloudy fuscous near it; an apical black patch slightly suffused with grey extending down to vein 3, its inner edge indented at vein 4. Hind wing semihyaline fuscous, with hyaline streaks in and below cell. Hab. NICARAGUA, Chontales (Belt). Exp. 40 millim. Type in Coll. Druce."

Plate XVII. Fig. 19:

 

Specimens examined: To be inserted.

 

DNA collected: To be inserted.

 

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/