Cosmosoma batesii (Butler, 1876)

Butler, A. G. (1876). Notes on the Lepidoptera of the family Zygaenidae, with
descriptions of new genera and species. Journal of the Linnean Society of
London, Zoology 12: p. 394. (Described as Dycladia batesii.)

22. D. BATESII, n. sp.

Allied to D. bromus; but the primaries with the apical fourth black: expanse
of wings 30 millims.

St. Paulo and Para (Bates). Type, B.M.

The species it is compared with, D. bromus, is treated by Butler in the next
entry (p. 394) as follows:

23. D. BROMUS = Sphinx bromus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pl. 35. f. G.

Surinam.

Cramer's figure of this species is rather rough, and represents the wings as
very long and narrow, more so even than in Sphecosoma.

Hampson, G. F. (1898). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, vol. 1, Syntomidae: p. 239, pl. IX fig. 7. (As Cosmosoma batesi.)

510. Cosmosoma batesi.

Dycladia batesii, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 394 (1876); Kirby,
Cat. Het. p. 146.

Head, thorax, and abdomen orange; palpi wholly yellow or black, or with 3rd
joint black; frons white; vertex of head and antennae black; wings hyaline,
the veins and margins black. Fore wing with the base orange, extending
slightly along costa and inner margin; a large black apical patch.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with small orange spot at base only.

Hab. Brazil, Para (Bates), Sao Paulo, type. Exp. 32 millim.

Draudt, M. (1915). Cosmosoma. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of the
World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 77, pl. 13 k. (As
Cosmosoma batesi.)

C. batesi Btlr. (13 k) has a unicolorously orange-yellow body; the palpi are
either yellow or black, or yellow with a black terminal joint; the forehead is
white, vertex and antennae black. Bases of the wings orange, which colour
usually extends for a short distance along the costal and inner margin, but
may also be confined to a minute spot at the base. Brazil (Sao Paulo).