Hamartia Hering, 1937

Figs 18, 37

Annals of the Transvaal Museum 17: 248–249.

Type species. Hamartia medora Hering, 1937 (by original designation)

Holotype. ♂.

Type locality. Marieps Mountain, South Africa (TMSA).

Genus re-description. Medium size. Antennae bipectinate, beige. Ground colour of head, thorax, abdomen and wings beige speckled with small dark brown scales. Forewing broad, rounded; discal spot white, rounded, outlined in dark brown; medial line dark brown, diffuse often present only from discal spot to anal margin but sometimes completely absent. Fringe long, slightly darker than ground colour. Hindwing without makings; fringe as in forewing but cilia sometimes black in distal portion. Underside. Ground colour beige; hindtibia with one pair of spurs. Fore- and hindwings beige generally without markings; hindwing speckled with brown scale spots. Male genitalia. Single posterior process of transtilla long, narrow, apically rounded; single, central anterior process moderately broad, obcordate. Valve wide, tapered distally to rounded point on costal edge. Juxta rectangular, apically with two short, lateral triangular projections. Phallus moderately long, distally slightly ridged, membranous, with slight medial split; vesica relatively short, membranous.

Diagnosis. In size and general appearance, most noticeably the forewing discal spot, the two Hamartia species could be confused with some Chrysopoloma species; however, the genital morphology is very distinctive, with a very slender, apically rounded gnathos and a long narrow juxta.

Distribution. Restricted to South Africa.

Species content

H. medora Hering, 1937

H. clarissa Hering, 1937