Calodesma maculifrons (Walker, [1865])

Walker, F. ([1865]). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the
Collection of the British Museum, part 31 (Supplement, part 1). Edward Newman,
London; pp. 157-158 (as Stenele maculifrons). The Latin diagnosis is
translated from the Latin original; the English description follows it
verbatim.

Stenele maculifrons.

Male. Ochraceous; head white, with six black marks; palpi, antennae, fore part
of the thorax and legs black; palpi porrect, much surpassing the head, second
joint white beneath, third linear; antennae pectinate; thorax in front with a
white macular band; legs striped with white; wings with a blackish-purple
marginal band enclosing white streaks; fore wings with the marginal band
eight-streaked, hind wings with the marginal band five-streaked.

Male. Bright ochraceous. Head white; vertex with two black spots, of which the
foremost has a black point on each side; front with a black point; face with a
black band. Proboscis, palpi, antennae, fore part of the thorax and legs black.
Palpi porrect, extending much beyond the head; second joint white beneath; third
linear, rounded at the tip, much shorter than the second. Antennae moderately
pectinated. Fore part of the thorax with a band of seven white spots. Legs with
white stripes. Wings with a blackish purple marginal band. Fore wings with the
marginal band containing eight white streaks, of which the three hinder are open
to the luteous part; the band very much dilated in front and containing a large
oblique white streak. Hind wings with the band containing five white streaks,
which are open to the luteous part. Length of the body 8 lines; of the wings 28
lines.

Limas. In Mr. Norris's collection.

Hering, M. (1925). Pericopidae. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges. Alfred Kernen,
Stuttgart; p. 433, pl. 61 a.

C. maculifrons Wkr. (61 a). Body above yellow, beneath white. Wings orange or
yellow, the forewing with a black apical area in which there is a light spot
behind the discal cell. Costal and distal margins of the hindwing black. All the
wings with white longitudinal streaks at the margin. Mexico to Panama.