Calonotos chalcipleura Hampson, 1898

Hampson, G. F. (1898). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the
British Museum, vol. 1, Syntomidae: p. 334, pl. 12, fig. 8. Original
description.

736. Calonotos chalcipleura, n. sp. (Plate XII. fig. 8.)

Male. Blue-black; antennae white at tips; frons, tegulae, sides of
thorax, coxae, and ends of femora with white spots; vertex of thorax with
golden green spots; abdomen with a pair of white dorsal spots on 1st
segment; broad dorsal and lateral golden green stripes and a ventral
series of white spots. Fore wing with golden green streak below costa and
short broad streak below base of median nervure; a white spot below
middle of cell; a spot beyond upper angle and a spot between veins 3 and
4. Hind wing with a double spot beyond the cell.

Antennae with the branches very long.

Hab. Venezuela, Aroa, 1 male type. Exp. 46 millim.

Draudt, M. (1916). Syntomidae. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera
of the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 108,
pl. 17 k. As Calonotos chalcipleurus.

C. chalcipleurus Hmps. (17 k) greatly resembles tiburtus, but it is at
first sight discernible by the golden green colour. The wings are
broader, the white hyaline spots smaller, the antennae of the male longer
combed; the spot between the median veins of the forewings is present
also in the male; beside the green basal spot below the median there is
also one at the costal margin; the first abdominal ring exhibits only 2
dorsal spots, no lateral ones as in tiburtus.

The species it is compared with, C. tiburtus Cr., is described by Draudt
on the same page (p. 108, pl. 17 i) as follows:

C. tiburtus Cr. (17 i). The bluish-black body exhibits metallic coppery
spots on the meso- and metathorax, similarly coloured dorsal and lateral
stripes on the abdomen. The blackish-blue forewings exhibit below the
middle of the cell and behind the cell one hyaline spot each, the female
has besides a third spot between the median veins. The hindwings exhibit
a postcellular hyaline spot. Distributed in Costa Rica, Panama,
Venezuela, Surinam. -- A form from Trinidad, without any white spots on
the thorax and palpal base, has been established as trinitatis Strand.