Aculeus vespoides (Schaus, 1905)

Schaus, W. (1905). Descriptions of new South American moths. Proceedings of
the United States National Museum 29 (no. 1420): 179-219; p. 186. (Described
as Poecilosoma vespoides.)

POECILOSOMA VESPOIDES, new species.

Antennae black. Body orange yellow. Legs streaked with black; palpi tipped
with black; a black spot on vertex; a large black spot on thorax anteriorly;
patagia tipped with black. Abdomen banded with black. Wings hyaline; the veins
and fringe black; the apices narrowly black. Primaries: an ochreous streak on
costal margin to near apex; a short streak at base of inner margin.

Expanse.--24 mm.
Habitat.--Carabaya, Peru.
Type.--Cat. No. 8491, U.S.N.M.

Hampson, G. F. (1914). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, Supplement vol. 1: p. 160, pl. IX fig. 6. (As Cosmosoma vespoides.)

510 b. Cosmosoma vespoides.

Poecilosoma vespoides, Schaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxix. p. 186 (1905).

♂. Head, thorax, and abdomen orange; palpi at tips, antennae, a patch on back
of head, tegulae, and patagia in front and the latter at tips black; pro- and
metathorax with paired black spots; pectus and legs black and orange; abdomen
with segmental black bands expanding into lateral spots; wings hyaline, the
veins and margins narrowly black. Fore wing with orange streak below costa to
beyond middle and some orange at base of inner margin; the terminal band
expanding slightly at apex and tornus. Hind wing with the black expanding
slightly at apex; the inner area black; the underside with the base orange.

Hab. Peru, Carabaya, type † ♂ in U.S. Nat. Mus., La Oroya (Ockenden), 1 ♂.
Exp. 28 millim.

Draudt, M. (1915). Poecilosoma. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 84, pl. 14 i.

P. vespoides Schaus (14 i) has an entirely orange-yellow body. Black are: the
distal side of the terminal joint on the palpi, dorsal and lateral spots
beginning from the third abdominal ring, stripes on the outside of the legs,
and the antennae. Base of forewing and subcostal space from the transverse
vein as far as the apex orange. Margins of wings very narrowly black; a very
minute apical spot. Described from Peru; before me also in some specimens from
Colombia (Ibague, 2700 m).