Kirby, 1892; Syn. Cat. Lepid. Het. 1: 208 (repl. Halisidota sobrina Möschler, 1878):

L.  Modesta,  Kirb.
\\Hal.  Sobrina,  Mdschl.  Verb,  zool.-bot.  Ges. Wicn,  xxvii.  p.  668,  t.  9.  f.  33  (1877)




Hampson, 1901, Cat. Lepid. Phalaenae Br. Mus. 3: 156, f. 91:
 
1493. Halisidota sobrina.
Halisidota sobrina, Méschl. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxvii. p. 668, pl. 9. f. 32 (1877).
Halisidota laroipa, Druce, P. Z. 8. 1893, p. 288; id. Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. il. p. 373.
Lophocainpa modesta, Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 208

Ochreous; palpi with black spot at side of 2nd joint ; tegula, patagia, tibie, and tarsi spotted with black. Fore Wing with fine
double minutely dentate subbasal, antemedial, medial, and post- medial dark lines, the last bent outwards to inner margin; dark patches on costal area on antemedial line and at end of cell, and often on middle of inner margin; an irregularly dentate sub- terminal line angled inwards above vein 5, where there is often a black spot on it; a crenulate terminal line. Hind wing pale ochreous.


Hab. Costa Rica (Zürcher), 1 Q ; Panama, Bugaba, Chiriqui (Champion), 3 ¢, Godman-Salyin Coll.; Surtvam, type? in Coll. Staudinger; Ecvapor, Chiguinda (Buckley), 4 3 ; Botrvia, Suapi: Perv, Chanchamayo, Sarayacu, type /arotpa fT in Coll. Druce. Fvp., 3 36-40, 2 46 millim.