“ aepitus group”

Figs 1, 4–13, 27–35, 42–48, 54–60, 66–72, 78–79

Description. Male and female: forewing with opaque and reduced discal spots; ventral forewing with white, broad and diffuse spot on distal 1/2 of CuA 2 –2A; ventral forewing with the discal area yellow, containing central black spot, postdiscal band yellow, limited distally by a dark brown not wavy stripe. Male: no brand; saccus triangular; uncus simple and wide, with or without disto-lateral lobes; arms of gnathos with not pointed apex; harpe and ampulla not fused; harpe bifid (except in A. solange Medeiros & O. Mielke sp. nov.), with ventral process of variable size, wide or narrow and cylindrical, and the dorsal process with conical and strongly sclerotized spines (Fig. 27E); aedeagus with the disto-dorsal expansion triangular (when vesica is not everted it is difficult to observe); ventral projection of aedeagus simple, narrow and long, directed parallel to the longitudinal axis (Fig. 27J); cornutus as a sclerotized plate on distal end of vesica, containing elongate and setae-like spines, sometimes very thick as in A. bamba Medeiros & O. Mielke sp. nov. (Figs 42–48); fultura inferior straight in lateral view, with proximal end bifid (Figs 27 L–35L). Female: externally similar to male; region between seventh sternite and lamella antevaginalis sclerotized, forming a rounded plate that covers the opening of the ostium ventrally; lamella postvaginalis completely sclerotized, ranging from more or less triangular to rectangular; lamella antevaginalis containing proximo-ventral folds (Fig. 54B); lamella postvaginalis bifid, with lateral fold present or absent, strongly sclerotized, proximo-lateral expansions simple or bilobed and with variable length (Fig. 54B); ductus bursae membranous or with small, irregular and strongly sclerotized plates.

Included species: Artines aepitus (Geyer, 1832), Artines panama Medeiros & Carneiro sp. nov., Artines solange Medeiros & O. Mielke sp. nov., Artines delfos Medeiros & Casagrande sp. nov., Artines maya A. Warren & Dolibaina, 2015, Artines litoralis Medeiros & Dolibaina sp. nov., Artines rica Steinhauser & Austin, 1993, Artines liege Medeiros, O. Mielke & Casagrande sp. nov. and Artines bamba Medeiros & O. Mielke sp. nov.