Papilio avitus, Cramer, 1781

Siewert, Ricardo Russo, Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik & Casagrande, Mirna Martins, 2020, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Telemiades Hübner, [1819] (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Eudaminae), with descriptions of fourteen new species, Zootaxa 4721 (1), pp. 1-111 : 21

“ avitus group”

Species included:

Telemiades avitus ( Stoll, 1781)

lurideolus Mabille, 1877 (Telemiades)

Telemiades xantho Hayward, 1939 , stat. rev.

Telemiades austini Siewert, Mielke & Casagrande , sp. nov.

The “ avitus group” is composed of three species characterized by the following characters: sexual dimorphism, males with ground color yellowish and females brown; FW with four contiguous hyaline spots: two cellular, and two discal; FW with three apical hyaline spots rectangular in R 3 –R 4, R 4 –R 5 and R 5 –M 1, smaller in R 4 –R 5; valva with long distal sickle–like process, curved inwards and margin serrated; lamella antevaginalis laterally expanded and covered by microscales, and conncected to tergum VIII by a thin membrane; lamella postavaginalis with a smooth groove at median region.