Haemonides, HUBNER, [1819]

Moraes, Simeão De Souza & Duarte, Marcelo, 2014, Phylogeny of Neotropical Castniinae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Castniidae): testing the hypothesis of the mimics as a monophyletic group and implications for the arrangement of the genera, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170 (2), pp. 362-399 : 392

HAEMONIDES HÜBNER, [1819] ( FIG. 27)

Type species

Papilio cronis Cramer, [1775]

Included species

Haemonides cronis (Cramer, [1775]) , Haemonides cronida (Herrich-Schäffer, [1854]) , and Haemonides candida ( Houlbert, 1917) .

Comments

Although there is support to synonymize this genus with Riechia and Imara , we consider it as a valid genus because of some distinct features, such as the morphology and sclerotization of the aedeagus, and the shape of the gnathos. Diagnostic characters for this genus include the aedeagus heavily sclerotized and not twisted, and the white colour in the wing pattern.