Apiconoma opposita (Walker, 1854)

Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), Zoosystema 36 (2), pp. 137-533 : 212

Apiconoma opposita (Walker, 1854)

Euchromia opposita Walker, 1854a: 260 .

Euplesia ochrophila Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874 : pl. 102, fig. 10. — Type locality: [ Brazil]. — Type specimen: Lectotype male (!) designated by Rothschild (1910a: 20) (BMNH).

TYPE LOCALITY. — Brazil.

TYPE SPECIMEN. — Holotype male ( BMNH).

Genus Euplesia Felder, 1874 ( Fig. 6D )

Euplesia Felder, 1874 : pl. 102, figs 9, 10.

TYPE SPECIES. — Euplesia vittigera Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874 by subsequent designation by Kirby (1892).

Figures

FIG. 6. — A-H, dorsal views. A, Machaeraptenus ventralis Schaus, 1894, lectotype male, Venezuela, Aroa (USNM); B, Apyre separata Walker,1854, holotype female, Brazil,Tefé (BMNH); C, Apiconoma opposita (Walker, 1854),holotype male, Brazil (BMNH);D, Euplesia sphingidea (Perty, 1833) (lectotype male of its synonym, Euplesia vittigera Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874, Brazil, Rio Amazonas (BMNH)) E, Ormetica taeniata (Guérin-Méneville, [1844]) (syntype of its synonym, Ormetica imitata (Druce, 1884), Mexico, Cordova (BMNH)); F, Selenarctia elissa (Schaus, 1892), lectotype female, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro (USNM); G, Aphyarctia surinamensis (Rothschild, 1911), holotype female, Suriname, Aroewarwa Creek (BMNH); H, Melanarctia ockendeni (Rothschild, 1909), lectotype male, Peru, La Oroya (BMNH). Scale bars: 0.5 cm.