Correbia lycoides (Walker, 1854)

Walker, F. (1854). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the
Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Lepidoptera Heterocera: p. 256.
(Described as Euchromia lycoides.)

Original description:

97. Euchromia lycoides.

Nigra aut nigro-fusca, testaceo aut fulvo bivittata; proboscis fulva; palpi
antennaeque basi flava; alae anticae fasciis duabus fulvis aut testaceis
strigisque cinereis; posticae cinereo-hyalinae marginibus fuscis; femora et
tarsorum articuli basi testacea.

Black, or blackish brown. Proboscis tawny. Palpi yellow towards the base.
Antennae yellow at the base. A tawny or testaceous stripe on each side of
the head and thorax, interrupted by black hairs at the base of the hind
wings. Fore wings with two tawny or testaceous bands, one very near to or
adjoining the base, the other beyond the middle; gray streaks between the
veins from the second band to the tips. Hind wings grayish hyaline with
dark brown borders; two testaceous spots in front, one at the base, the
other near the tips. Abdomen with a testaceous spot on each side at the
base, and with a testaceous stripe along each side above, and another
beneath, where the disk is frequently testaceous for half the length from
the base. Legs and joints of the tarsi more or less testaceous at the base.
Length of the body 5-10 lines; of the wings 14-23 lines.

a, b. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection.
c. Para. From Mr. Bates' collection.
d, e. ----? From Mr. Children's collection.


Butler, A. G. (1877). Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera
Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum. Part I: p. 47, pl.
VIII, fig. 10. (Redescribed as Pionia lycoides.)

Pionia lycoides. (Plate VIII. fig. 10.)
Euchromia (Pionia) lycoides, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 256. n. 97
(1854).

Primaries black, the base and a broad irregular band beyond the middle
ochreous: secondaries greyish hyaline, with the veins and diffused borders
dark brown; two oblong ochreous costal spots. Body black, ochreous at the
sides; basal half of palpi, coxae, distal half of trochanters, basal half
of venter, and a central streak connected therewith, ochreous; joints of
palpi and legs whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 10 lines.

Venezuela (Dyson); Rio Janeiro.


Hampson, G. F. (1898). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum. Vol. 1, Syntomidae: p. 515, fig. 273.

1136. Correbia lycoides.
Euchromia lycoides, Wlk. i. 256 (1854); Butl. Ill. Het. i. p. 47, pl. 8.
f. 10; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. p. 76; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 168.
Correbia ceramboides, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 265 (1855);
Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 168.
Correbia subochrea, Herr.-Schaff. Corresp.-Blatt zool.-min. Regensb. xx.
p. 115 (1866); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 168.

Head, thorax, and abdomen black, with an orange band above frons and
lateral orange stripes on head, tegulae, and patagia; palpi orange at base
below; coxae orange; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen with lateral orange
stripes varying in length and not extending to terminal segments, the first
three segments and a spot on 4th ventrally orange. Fore wing orange-yellow,
with a curved black streak at base; a broad medial blue-black band with
irregularly sinuous edges; a large apical blue-black patch, its inner edge
angled outwards towards termen at vein 5. Hind wing fuscous, with
semihyaline patch in and below cell; orange spots on costa at base and
before apex.
Ab. 1. ceramboides. Fore wing with the orange area mostly suffused with
fuscous.
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo); Honduras (Blancaneaux); Panama (Champion),
Godman-Salvin Coll.; Cuba; Venezuela, type; Brazil, Rio Janeiro (Clark).
Exp. 40-50 millim. Type ceramboides in Coll. Staudinger.


Draudt, M. (1915). Correbia. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 185, pl. 25 k.
(German edition: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 6: 185.)

C. lycoides Wkr. (25 k). This species initiates a small group of very
similar species which are not easy to discern, what is rendered still more
difficult by the great variability. lycoides has narrower wings, coloured
more yellow-brown; the discal band and the apical spot are of a rather pure
dull black without the distinct, bluish-grey dusting in the cell-spaces;
the apical spot does not extend as far as the proximal angle, but it is
mostly rectilinearly cut off on the lower or already on the upper median
vein. The margin of the rather light, diaphanous hindwing is narrow. The
abdomen is above always black, the brown-yellow lateral stripe narrow. Very
widely distributed from Mexico to Paraguay; also in Cuba and Jamaica. -- In
the form ceramboides H.-Schaff. the ochreous-yellow colour is shaded by
dark brown.