Xanthopleura perspicua (Walker, 1856)

Walker, F. (1856). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the
Collection of the British Museum, Part VII, Lepidoptera Heterocera: 1627.
Original description, as Calonota perspicua.

Calonota perspicua.

Fem. Nigra; caput, thorax et coxae albo maculata; abdomen aureo-viride,
fasciis duabus lateralibus flavescentibus; alae disco basali fasciaque
abbreviata exteriore limpidis.

Female. Black. Head with a white spot in front, and with two white dots
behind. Thorax with two dorsal and with four lateral white dots, one at the
base of each wing. Abdomen slightly gilded dark green, with a broad pale
yellowish stripe along each side above and beneath. Coxae with white spots.
Wings with the disk towards the base, and with an exterior abbreviated band,
limpid, intersected by the black veins. Length of the body 8 lines; of the
wings 20 lines.

Para. In Mr. Saunders' collection.

Hampson, G. F. (1898). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, vol. 1 (Syntomidae): 426, no. 942. As Xanthopleura perspicua.

942. Xanthopleura perspicua.
Calonotos perspicua, Wlk. vii. 1627 (1856); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 125.
Calonotos sandion, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 373; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 125.

Black; frons, back of head, shoulders, end of patagia, vertex of thorax,
pectus, and coxae with white spots; abdomen tinged with greenish; broad
subdorsal and sublateral greenish-yellow fasciae. Fore wing with two hyaline
streaks in cell; a streak below the cell; a spot above the base of vein 2,
and a series of four elongate spots beyond the cell between veins 3 and 7,
the two lower largest. Hind wing with hyaline streaks in and below the cell,
and two small spots beyond the cell.

Hab. Colombia; Ecuador (Buckley), 1 male type sandion in Coll. Druce;
Amazons, 1 male, Para (Bates), type female in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 54 millim.

Draudt, M. (1915). Xanthopleura. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera
of the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 147, pl. 21 k.
(German edition: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 6: 147.)

X. perspicua Wkr. (= sandion Druce) (21 k) entirely resembles the following
species and differs only by the light greenish-yellow colour of the
abdominal stripe and a minute hyaline spot above the rise of the 2nd median
vein of the forewing. Colombia; Ecuador; Peru (Pachitea); Amazon (Para).

"The following species" is X. troetschi, which Draudt treats on the same
page (p. 147):

X. troetschi Druce (21 k) is perhaps only a northern race of the preceding;
it merely differs by the orange-yellow colour of the abdominal stripes; of
the small hyaline spot above the 2nd median of the forewing which is said to
be absent, there are anyhow traces noticeable in one specimen before me.
Only from Panama (Chiriqui).