Porphyrogenes spoda Evans, 1952

Austin, George T. & Mielke, Olaf H. H., 2008, Hesperiidae of Rondônia, Brazil: Porphyrogenes Watson (Lepidoptera: Pyrginae: Eudamini), with descriptions of new species from Central and South America, Insecta Mundi 2008 (44), pp. 1-56 : 20

Porphyrogenes spoda Evans, 1952

( Fig. 39, 40 )

Porphyrogenes spoda Evans, 1952 . Type locality: Chiriqui [ Panama]; male [holo] type ( Fig. 39, 40 ) in BM(NH).

Description. Male (measured and described from photographs of [holo] type, Fig. 39, 40 ) - forewing length = 22.6 mm; with costal fold, apex pointed, not produced, termen slightly convex towards apex, then nearly straight to a short lobe at tornus, anal margin slightly convex; hindwing slightly convex, tornus produced to prominent lobe, vein Rs arising nearer end of discal cell than to its base and well distad of CuA 2; dorsum brown, unmarked; forewing overscaled with red-brown, heaviest basad; hindwing overscaled with red-brown, no indication of discal macules; shining gray specular area in basal area cephalad with red-brown recumbent tufts; conspicuous erect red-brown tuft along vein 2A; fringes on both wings tan.

Venter red-brown, forewing browner than on dorsum; forewing vein 2A moderately sinuate, bare and moderately swollen in central 1/3, no distinct groove; shining gray speculum in proximal 1/4 of CuA 2 -2A and in proximal 1/3 of anal cell (continued to tornus as modified grayish brown scales); hindwing with no indication of discal macules; cell 2A-3A with deep groove just caudad of 2A.

Dorsal head brownish, thorax rubbed, palpi gray-brown, eyes appear dark, antennae black on dorsum, whitish on venter and beneath apiculus, ventral thorax and pectus brownish, legs brownish proximad, orange-brown distad, dorsal abdomen rubbed, ventral abdomen rubbed.

Genitalia - not examined. Evans’ (1952) figure indicates a broad tegumen angled abruptly ventrad to a short uncus with very widely spaced arms. The broad harpe curves gradually dorsad.

Female - unknown.

Distribution. Known only from the [holo] type taken in Panama ( Evans 1952).

Diagnosis and discussion. The single male of Porphyrogenes spoda in the BM (NH) noted by Evans (1952) ( Fig. 39, 40 ) is the [holo] type .

Figures

Figure 37-50. Types and associated specimens of Porphyrogenes (ds = dorsal surface, vs = ventral surface). 37) Porphyrogenes sparta, female associated with [holo]type male, ds. 38) same, vs. 39) Porphyrogenes spoda Evans, 1952, [holo]type male, ds. 40) same, vs. 41) Porphyrogenes stupa Evans, 1952, [holo]type male, ds. 42) same, vs. 43) Eudamus passalus Herrich-Schäffer, 1869, lectotype female, ds. 44) same, vs. 45) Thymele virgatus Mabille, 1888, lectotype female, ds. 46) same, vs. 47) Thymele eudemus Mabille, 1888, lectotype female, ds. 48) same, vs. 49) Porphyrogenes sp., female considered to be female of Telegonus probus in its original description (see text), ds. 50) same, vs.