Castnia corrupta, (Schaus, 1896)

Worthy, Robert, González, Jorge M. & Zilli, Alberto, 2022, A review of the genera Amauta Houlbert, 1918 and Divana J. Y. Miller, 1982 (Lepidoptera: Castniidae) with description of a new genus, Zootaxa 5194 (3), pp. 301-342 : 324-325

corrupta ( Schaus, 1896)

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“ 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.

Figures

FIGURE 10. A–C: Vadina hodeei hodeei (Oberthür, 1881): A, ♂ HT, corrupta (Schaus, 1896), Colombia, ex Schaus, USNMENT01244439 (USNM); B, ♂ HT, amazona (Knop, 1925), Campo Santo, Bogota, Colombia, 1922, ex Pfeiffer (ETHZ); C, ♀ HT, hodeei, Nouv[elle] Grenade, pris par l’Indien Eujenio Garzon, ex Oberthür, NHMUK010474215 (NHMUK). D, E: Vadina hodeei kruegeri (Niepelt, 1927): D, ♂ HT, West-Columbien, 500 meter, März–Juni 27, ex Niepelt (MfN); E, ♀, Chuchuvi, Esmeraldas, Ecuador, 700m, September 2012 (coll. MB).