Hypercompe (Hypercompe) cyaneicornis (Grote, 1867)

Hypercompe (Hypercompe) cyaneicornis (Grote, 1867) View in CoL bona species BOLD:AAX1919

Material examined

CUBA

1 ♂, SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Station météo de la Gran Piedra, 20-VII-1996, 1130 m, J. Haxaire leg.

1 ♂, 1 ♀, Gran Piedra, 16-VIII-1996, H. Descimon leg., the male is dissected: Gen. ML 962. All in MNHN .

1 ♂, SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Sierra de Maestra, Rio Seco (Chivirico), VI- 1994, 400 m, P. Bleuzen leg., Sample-ID: MILA 0283 (yellow printed label), BOLD Process-ID:ARCTA564-07 .

2 ♂, GRANMA, Alto de Meroño , 14-IV-2018, 3104', 19°29'55" N 77°00'35" W, J.Haxaire leg. One is dissected: Gen. ML 3251 (blue manuscript label) GoogleMaps .

1 ♂, GRANMA, Llano del Piño , 13-IV-2018, 3056', 20°00'06" N 77°00'54" W, J. Haxaire leg. All in MLC GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis. – This is a larger and more robust species (male wingspan around 45-47 mm).

Male description ( Fig. 33)

Head white, antennae bipectinate with the shaft bluish black. Tegulae white with a black circle or spot. Patagia white, centred with a small black circle. Thorax whitewith six blackspotsor circles.Abdomen withthe firstsegments hairy and dark greyish, then black posteriorly almost to the anal tuft, yellowish lines are often visible. Below the pattern is variable: underside can be white, orange or partly white and orangebut the lastsegment and anal tuft are black. Forewings white slightly elongated. The usualpattern of lines of dark spots is here present, generally the spot are black on the outside half and reduced to thin circles in the basal half, but this is variable. Hindwings almost entirely whitesometimes witha fewgreyishspots near costa and/ortornus.Analangle elongated. Underside similar to upperside but pattern more contrasted especially near costa which displays a yellowish hue.

Female description ( Fig. 33)

Larger with rounded wings. Antennae black and ciliate. Ornamentation of body and wings similar to male but all black dots replaced by circular patches upper side and underside. Hindwing anal angle almost rounded.

Male genitalia ( Fig. 34)

Tergite VIII heart-shaped. Tegumen as an almost perfect rectangle slightly constricted in middle. Uncus as a large triangle bent ventrally. Valvae almost absent reduced to asmall digitate translucentlobe coveredwithlong setae.Juxta shaped as an hour-glass, largely concave on top. On each side a small area covered with short setae. Aedeagus cylindrical, slightly bent in middle. A very long caecum penis, bent at 120° near beginning and then slightly undulate. Vesicashort,slightlyscobinatewithasmallsclerotizedareaventrally.

Annex 4 - Note and correction concerning my previous paper entitled: " Description of two new genera and four new species of Arctiinae from the Neotropical fauna "

In this paper ( Laguerre , 2019) I described a new species under the name Hypercompe tirolensis from a small series of specimens housed in the Witt Museum (München, Germany) and allegedly collected in Dorf Tirol (Espirito Santo, Brazil) by my colleague Hubert Thöny.When he received the PDF draft, H. Thöny immediately sent me a message to explain thathe does notremember having collected this species inBrazil and that the locality was very likely wrong.As there were 4 specimens with identical labels, it seems that a mislabeling was very unlikely. Neverthelesswe checkedallSeitz'svolumes forArctiinae andfinally we found that this species is in reality Diacrisia (now Spilosoma ) cymbalophoroides Rothschild, 1910 from Lesser Sunda Islands. The genitalia of Arctiina being very homogeneous it was very difficult to suspecta problem butwe mustconsider now that Hypercompe tirolensis is just a synonym of Spilosoma cymbalophoroides (n. syn.) and this species mustbe withdrawn fromthe Brazilianandthe Neotropical fauna and indeed it is not considered in the present study.