Sarosa notata (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: 342-407; pp. 390-391. Original
description as Ilipa notata.

5. I. notata, n. sp.

Head black, frons with a metallic-green dot in the centre and a creamy
white spot on each side; antennae dark brown; collar black with a green
spot on each side; pterygodes golden yellow, with a brown external
margin; thorax golden yellow, with a central brownish spot; first four
segments of abdomen golden yellow, with lateral and central series of
black spots; fifth segment black, with squamose yellow posterior margin;
sixth and seventh segments black, with metallic-green spots behind: wings
hyaline-white with black veins; primaries with base, costal and inner
margins, discocellulars, apex, and a rather broad external border
black-brown; secondaries with apex, outer, and abdominal margins
black-brown; costa pale brown: pectus golden yellow; legs brown, with the
coxae, trochanters, and lower margin of femora golden yellow; abdomen
dark brown, with a large white spot on each side of a segments: expanse
of wings 45 millims.

Pacho, Province of Cundinamarca, New Granada (Janson). Type, B.M.

Easily distinguished from all its allies by the colouring of the body.

Hampson, G. F. (1898). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the
British Museum, vol. 1, Syntomidae: pp. 186-187, text-fig. 87.

380. Sarosa notata.

Ilipa notata, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii. p. 390 (1876); Kirby,
Cat. Het. p. 143.
Cosmosoma ufentina, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 377; Kirby, Cat. Het.
p. 142.

Male. Head black, frons blue and white, tegulae black with metallic blue
patches; thorax orange-yellow; patagia fringed with black; legs black and
yellow; abdomen orange-yellow above, with dorsal black and blue patches,
some lateral black spots; the last three segments black with metallic
blue bands; ventral surface black, the valve with large lateral white
patches; wings hyaline, the veins and margins black. Fore wing with
discocellular lunule; the terminal band very wide on apical area and
expanding at tornus. Hind wing with the terminal band expanding at apex;
the inner area black.

Ab. 1. Abdomen with faint traces of the dorsal black and blue spots.
Coll. Staudinger.

Hab. Colombia, Cundinamarca, 1 male type; Bolivia (Buckley), type male
ufentina in Coll. Druce. Exp. 48 millim.

Draudt, M. (1915). Syntomidae. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera
of the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 53,
pl. 11 f.

S. notata Btlr. (= ufentina Druce) (11 f) greatly resembles connotata,
but immediately distinguishable by the black, not orange base of the
forewing, the shoulder-covers being also black-margined. The abdomen
exhibits above a more or less developed row of black, metallic-pupilled
spots which may also be entirely absent: innotata form. nov. (= ab. 1
Hmps.) (11 f). The species occurs in Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and
Venezuela (Merida), whilst innotata originates from Ecuador.

The species it is compared with, S. connotata Hmps., is described by
Draudt on the same page (p. 53, pl. 11 f) as follows:

S. connotata Hmps. (11 f) forms the connecting-link between the preceding
species and the following notata; from the latter, to which it is very
closely allied, it differs by the base of the wings being orange-yellow
like in xanthobasis, furthermore by a large black spot on the metathorax
and by the somewhat more extensive black colour of the abdomen; the
triangular, black, metallic blue-pupilled dorsal spots have their points
towards the head, their bases being directed analwards, what in notata is
more or less distinctly just the contrary. Another mark of distinction is
the very small lower half of the discocellular of the hindwing: in notata
it is much larger, for which reason the veins 2 and 4 are much shorter
petioled. Distributed from Venezuela (Merida) to Peru.