Eucereon aeolum Hampson, 1898

Hampson, G. F. 1898. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum. Volume I. Catalogue of the Syntomidae in the collection of the British
Museum. London: p. 498, no. 1094, pl. XVI f. 16. Original description.

1094. Eucereon aeolum, n. sp. (Plate XVI. fig. 16.)
Eucereon rhodophila, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 86 (nec Wlk.).

Pale brown; head, tegulae, and thorax spotted with black; back of head and
metathorax with orange spots; patagia streaked with black; legs streaked with
yellowish grey; abdomen crimson, with dorsal black-brown patches decreasing to
3rd segment and followed by a series of points, the terminal segment black,
lateral black fasciae, the ventral surface greyish yellow. Fore wing pale brown;
basal and subbasal series of short streaks, two of the latter series meeting on
vein 1; an antemedial series of black spots followed by two spots in cell; two
spots in end of cell, and a series just beyond the cell bent inwards below the
cell to near the antemedial series; a postmedial series of spots oblique below
vein 4, and followed by a series of dentate marks from costa to vein 4; a
subterminal series of spots and a terminal series of points on the veins. Hind
wing pale semihyaline, the veins, inner and terminal areas suffused with
fuscous; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle.

Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Rümeli), type, Coatepec (Brooks), Tabasco (H. H. Smith),
Jalapa (Trujillo); Guatemala (Champion): Godman-Salvin Coll. Exp. 34 millim.

Draudt, M. 1915. Eucereon. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of the
World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 175, pl. 25 a. (German
edition: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 6.)

E. aeolum Hmps. (= rhodophila Druce) (25 a), from Mexico and Guatemala, has
brownish-white forewings with numerous, small, black streak-like spots: at the
base on vein 1, two curved streaks form an oval being distally bordered by 2
spots of the anterior row converging into two rectangular spots; in the cell 2
spots being situate above each other; a middle row gets very irregular towards
the cell-end. Some submarginal and marginal punctiform spots. Hindwings
blackish-grey, somewhat transparent. Head and thorax grey, spotted black, in the
neck two small orange spots. Abdomen at the base and at the end blackish-brown,
otherwise carmine with black dorsal spots and lateral stripes, beneath
yellowish.