corrupta (Schaus, 1896)

(Fig. 10A)

“ Castnia corrupta, sp. nov. ” Schaus, 1896, Journal of the New York Entomological Society 4 (4): 147.

Type material: Not detailed in the original description which clearly relates to a male, records a single wing expanse, and makes no mention of any variability, so we can take it that there is a single male type which is a holotype by [likely] monotypy (Fig. 10A). This specimen is in USNM .

Type locality: Schaus (1896) gave the type locality as Colombia, and this is all that is mentioned on the label data of the specimen. This cannot now be further restricted .

Taxonomic status: A junior subjective synonym of Castnia hodeei Oberthür, 1881 (now in Vadina). Originally described as a species but synonymised by Miller (1995). Oberthür (1881) described V. hodeei from a single female; Schaus’s corrupta was the first description of the male, which is quite different from the female and was not at the time recognised as being the same species as hodeei . The first people who seem to have associated the male and female as a single species were Joicey & Talbot (1925).

Male genitalia: Not available.

Distribution: Not relevant.

Material examined: For this study we have examined the holotype.