Hypercompe magdalenae (Oberthür, 1881)

Oberthür, C. (1881). Lépidoptères d'Amérique. Études d'Entomologie 6:
p. 111, pl. XVIII, figs 5, 8. Described as Ecpantheria magdalenae.
Translated from the French original.
Magdalenae, Oberthür (pl. XVIII, ♂, fig. 5; ♀, fig. 8).
Colombia.

Hampson, G. F. (1901). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, vol. 3, Arctiadae (Arctianae) and Agaristidae: pp. 370-371, no. 1911
(as Ecpantheria magdalenae).

1911. Ecpantheria magdalenae.

Ecpantheria magdalenae, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 111, pl. 18. ff. 5, 8 (1881);
Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 216.

♂. Head and thorax white; palpi, frons, and antennae black-brown; patches on
tegulae, patagia, meso- and metathorax brown with a bluish gloss; pectus brown
at sides; legs black and white; abdomen orange, with dorsal brown bands and
patch at base, lateral series of black points, the ventral surface white with
dark patch before extremity. Fore wing white; subbasal black-edged olive-brown
spots on costa and below cell; an antemedial spot on costa and two points
below the cell; a medial series of spots, angled on median nervure; a small
discoidal spot; a postmedial point below costa and three between vein 3 and
inner margin; a subterminal series of spots interrupted above vein 4, the spot
below vein 4 extending to termen; a terminal series of spots from apex to vein
3. Hind wing orange; the area from near base to termen on each side of median
nervure hyaline; a discoidal black point and a subterminal point below vein 2;
an elongate brown patch on the tornal lobe, which is very large.

♀. Abdomen with the dorsal bands more developed, the terminal segment dark
with two orange streaks; fore wing with two small spots beyond lower angle of
cell, the antemedial, postmedial, and terminal series more developed; hind
wing black-brown, with three orange spots on costa and short bar before apex,
the termen orange from vein 4 to tornus, with two dark spots on it.

Hab. Colombia, Bogotá (Buckley), 1 ♂. Exp., ♂ 46, ♀ 64 millim.

Hampson, G. F. (1920). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, Supplement vol. 2, Arctianae: p. 448 (as Ecpantheria magdalenae).

1911. Ecpantheria magdalenae, insert:—

Subsp. 1. ♀. Fore wing with the postmedial series of small spots complete;
hind wing with the costal area yellow to beyond the cell interrupted by a dark
discoidal bar, a yellow postmedial patch below vein 2 with a curved dark line
on it, the yellow terminal band extending to apex with dark spots on termen
from apex to vein 2.

Hab. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, Tijuca (Wagner), 1 ♀.

Subsp. 2. steinbachi, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 172 (1910).

♂. Fore wing with the series of spots more developed and larger, especially
the antemedial and postmedial series.

♀. Hind wing with the costal area yellow to beyond the cell where it expands
into an oblique irregular wedge-shaped patch with an oblique dark bar on it, a
clavate yellow streak in submedian fold, the terminal dark band extending to
apex with dark spots on termen from apex to vein 2 varying in size.

Hab. Peru, El Porvenir 1 ♀; Bolivia, Buenavista (Steinbach), type ♂ in Coll.
Rothschild.

Seitz, A. (1920). Ecpantheria. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 316, pl. 40 d, e.
(German edition: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 6: 316.)

E. magdalenae Oberth. (40 d, e). Through the middle of the forewing a broad
chain of spots, in the ♀ another one through the marginal third; between, as
well as at the distal and costal margins small dark spots. Hindwings in the ♂
white, with a sooty black proximal margin, in the ♀ grey, the margin marked
yellow. Colombia; the figured ♂ I obtained from Rio de Janeiro, where it was
reported to have been captured. — steinbachi Rothsch. is larger, the proximal
chain of spots of the forewing more remote from the base, so that the 3 bands
of the forewing are closer together, the anal tooth of the ♂ longer; Bolivia.