Composia credula (Fabricius, 1775)

Fabricius, J. C. (1775). Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes,
ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus,
observationibus. Kortii, Flensburgi et Lipsiae; p. 584, no. 94 (as Bombyx
credula). Translated from the Latin original.

94. B. with incumbent wings and body deep black, dotted with white.
Lives in America.
Stature of the preceding. All the wings deep black, with very many distinct
white dots. An oblong blood-red spot, with two black dots, at the base of the
fore wing. Head, thorax and abdomen black, dotted with white.

The Latin text reads:

94. B. alis incumbentibus corporeque atris albo punctatis.
Habitat in America.
Statura praecedentis. Alae omnes atrae, punctis plurimis distinctis, albis.
Macula oblonga sanguinea, punctis duobus nigris ad basin alae anticae. Caput
thorax et abdomen nigra, albo punctata.

The preceding entry referred to (same work, pp. 583-584, no. 93, Bombyx
Dominula):

93. B. alis incumbentibus, atris: maculis albo-flavescentibus, posticis rubris,
nigro maculatis.
Phalaena Dominula. Linn. Syst. Nat. 11. 834. 90.
Merian. Europ. 2. tab. 38.
Alb. Ins. tab. 22.
Wilks pap. 19. tab. 3. a. 3.
Schaeff. Icon. tab. 77. fig. 3, 4.
Roes. Ins. 3. tab. 47.
Habitat in lamio, salice, polyphaga.
Larva pilosa, atra: lineis tribus flavis albo maculatis.
Puppa brunnea intra folliculum communem.

(93. B. with incumbent wings, deep black: with whitish-yellow spots, the hind
wings red, spotted with black. Lives on dead-nettle, willow, polyphagous. Larva
hairy, deep black: with three yellow lines spotted with white. Pupa brown,
within a common cocoon.)

Hering, M. (1925). Pericopidae. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges. Alfred Kernen,
Stuttgart; p. 428, pl. 60 e.

C. credula F. (= sybaris Cr.) (60 e). Body and wings blackish-brown, all over
covered with spots. Ventral side of the abdomen white with black segmental
margins. At the costa of the forewing in the basal part above 2 or 3 red spots,
beneath a red stripe. Antilles (Jamaica, Haiti, Portorico, St. Thome).