Ardonea tenebrosa (Walker, [1865])

Walker, F. [1865]. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the
Collection of the British Museum, Part 31: Supplement, Part 1: p. 306.
Described as Carales tenebrosa.

Carales tenebrosa.

Fem. Nigro-fusca; palpi graciles, oblique ascendentes, articulo 3o
lanceolato 2o vix breviore; thorax vittis duabus latis abbreviatis albidis;
alae anticae anguste albido quadriplagiatae, plagis nigro venosis, margine
exteriore convexo perobliquo.

Female. Blackish brown. Palpi slender, obliquely ascending, not rising
higher than the vertex; third joint lanceolate, nearly as long as the
second. Thorax with a short broad whitish stripe on each side. Abdomen
extending somewhat beyond the hind wings. Legs stout, smooth; hind tibiae
with four short stout spurs. Fore wings narrow, with four whitish patches,
which are intersected by the black veins; first on the interior border near
the base; second by the interior border, opposite the third, which is
costal; fourth apical; exterior border convex, extremely oblique. Length of
the body 6 lines; of the wings 18 lines.
a. Rio Janeiro. Presented by J. P. G. Smith, Esq.

Hampson, G.F. (1900). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, vol. 2: Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae): p. 224,
pl. 24, fig. 6.

466. ? Ardonea tenebrosa. (Plate XXIV. fig. 6.)
Carales tenebrosa, Wlk. xxxi. 306 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 207.

Female. (Head wanting); black-brown; patagia with grey patches. Fore wing
with prominent medial whitish streaks above and below submedian fold and on
inner margin; two indistinct brownish streaks in end of cell; whitish
streaks intersected by fine streaks of the ground-colour in the interspaces
towards termen, reaching the termen except towards apex and above and below
vein 4.
Hab. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 female type. Exp. 34 millim.

Hampson, G.F. (1914). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, Supplement vol. 1 (Amatidae and Arctiadae, Nolinae and Lithosianae):
pp. 542-543, fig. 140.

466. Ardonea tenebrosa.

Antennae of male with cilia and bristles, the medial part of shaft fringed
with long hair above; abdomen clothed with rough hair; hind wing produced to
a large pointed lobe at tornus.
Male. Tegulae with yellowish white patches; patagia yellowish white edged
with black-brown; abdomen with the anal tuft crimson; fore wing with more
yellowish white and less black-brown suffusion; hind wing semihyaline white,
the apex brown, a narrow brown terminal band.
Subsp. 1. peculiaris, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) xviii. p. 86 (1906).
Hind wing with the costal and terminal areas broadly suffused with fuscous.
Hab. Peru, Huacamayo, type † male in Coll. Joicey. Exp. 32 millim.

Draudt, M. (1919). Lithosiinae. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 288, pl. 36 d.

A. tenebrosa Wkr. (36 d) is a very peculiar animal. The male has the
antennae above provided with thick hair, the abdomen is roughly haired, and
the anal angle of the hindwing extended to a long lobe. Forewings
yellowish-white, with blackish-brown veins, and in the marginal area
internerval stripes, blackish-brown spots near the base, behind the cell,
towards the proximal angle, at the apex and at the margin; hindwings
diaphanous brownish-white, at the costal margin and apex more darkened.
Collar and shoulder-covers spotted yellowish-white, anal tuft orange to
carmine. In the female the dark colour is much more extensive. Metathorax
with an orange spot. -- In the form peculiaris Drc. the hindwings are much
more darkened. Expanse of wings: 32 mm. Peru, Colombia.