Oenides Mabille, 1904

Oenides Mabille, 1904 View in CoL

( Figs 1–5 View FIGURE 1 View FIGURE 2 View FIGURE 3 View FIGURE 4 View FIGURE 5 )

Oenides Mabille, 1904 View in CoL , in Wytsman. Gen. Ins. 17, p. 178; type species - only included species: Oenides vulpina Felder — Draudt, 1924, in Seitz. Gross-Schmett. Erde 5, p. 992—Lindsey, 1925. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 18: 94—Hayward, 1934. Rev. Soc. ent. arg. 6: 101— Williams & Hayward, 1944. Acta zool. Lill. 2: 223—Hayward, 1947. Acta zool. Lill. 4: 367—Hemming, 1967. Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Ent., Suppl. 9: 320—Lamas, 1969. Biota 7: 39—Beattie, 1976. Rhop. Direct., p. 43—Bridges, 1988. Cat. Fam.-Group & Gen.-Group Nam., 2 nd ed., 4, p. 91— Cong et al., 2019. Insecta Mundi 731: 40.

Type species. Hesperia vulpina C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867 View in CoL , designated by Mabille (1904) in Wytsman.

Diagnosis. Oenides is distinguished from the other Pericharina (Pericharini) genera by the combination of the following characters: FW with three separated apical hyaline spots in R 3 –M 1; FW male with white hyaline spots; HW with m-cu forming a right angle with CuA 1 ( Fig. 2b View FIGURE 2 ). Male genitalia ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 ) with the uncus bilobed, projected ventrally, with bifid tips; coecum of aedeagus slightly curved dorsally.

Redescription. Head: antenna ventrally yellow; nudum, 12–13 segments. Eyelash present. Eye, brown in some pinned specimens, but red when alive ( Vélez-Estrada and Ríos-Málaver 2018).

Thorax: mesotibia and metatibia spined. FW with stigma grey and continuous between CuA 1 and 2A ( Fig. 2a View FIGURE 2 ); recurring vein M; dcs present; distance between the origins of CuA 1 –CuA 2 wider than the origins of M 3 –CuA 1. HW with m-cu forming a right angle with CuA 1 ( Fig. 2b View FIGURE 2 ).

Abdomen: male genitalia ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 ) with tegumen longer than uncus; anterior projection of saccus shorter than uncus, ventrally rectangular in shape; lower portion of dorsal arm of saccus + ventral arm of tegumen straight; uncus bilobed, projected ventrally, with bifid tips; gnathos broader than uncus; valva with costa slightly convex; sacculus with setae; harpe with strong sclerotization, spined dorso-distally; fultura inferior with two tiny lateral projections; aedeagus longer than valva; coecum slightly curved dorsally. Female genitalia ( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4 ) with lamella antevaginalis, arched laterally with dorsal projection triangle shaped dilated; ventrally in U-shaped, with a small median projection not covering the opening to the ostium bursae; lamella postvaginalis, laterally, with plates in triangle-shaped slightly convex distally; papilla analis almost rectangular; corpus bursae with no distinction between corpus and ductus.

Species included. Oenides vulpina (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867) .

Etymology. Not informed by the author.