Cosmosoma centralis (Walker, 1854)

Walker, F. (1854). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the
Collection of the British Museum, part 1: p. 171. (Described as Glaucopis
centralis; the Latin diagnosis is followed by Walker's own English
description.)

53. GLAUCOPIS CENTRALIS.

Nigra, gracilis, sublinearis, cyaneo varia; antennae pectinatae; thoracis
latera lutea; abdomen e maculis cyaneis bivittatum; alae limpidae basi luteae
apice et postice fusco marginatae, anticae luteo fasciatae.

Black, slender, nearly linear. Head mostly blue. Palpi slender, rather long,
slightly curved; third joint nearly half the length of the second. Antennae
moderately pectinated. Thorax mostly blue in front and on the scutellum and
beneath, luteous on each side. Wings limpid, brown along the hind borders and
on one-fourth of the length from the tips, luteous towards the base as are
also the veins. Fore wings with the usual luteous band which is dilated and
luteous behind the discal areolet; discal fold not apparent in the discal
areolet but very distinct beyond it. Hind border of the hind wings broader
than that of the fore wings. Abdomen with a row of blue spots on each side.
Fore tibiae hardly dentated beneath; middle and apical spurs of hind tibiae
very small. Length of the body 4 1/2 lines; of the wings 13 lines.

a. Rio Janeiro. From Mr. Johnson's collection.

Hampson, G. F. (1898). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, vol. 1, Syntomidae: p. 243. (As Cosmosoma centrale.)

522. Cosmosoma centrale.

Glaucopis centralis, Wlk. i. 171 (1854); Butl. Ill. Het. i. p. 31, pl. 11. f.
9; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 141.

Laemocharis bura, Herr.-Schäff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 239 (1854); Kirby, Cat.
Het. p. 145.

♂. Black; frons, vertex of head, tegulae, thorax above, and legs with patches
of metallic blue; antennae white at tips; patagia orange, fringed with black;
abdomen with lateral orange patches at base and subdorsal series of blue
spots; wings hyaline, the veins and margins black. Fore wing with fine
subcostal orange streak to beyond middle and an orange patch extending along
inner margin to middle; a discocellular band; an orange spot between bases of
veins 2 and 4 connected by a black patch with the terminal band, which is very
wide on apical area. Hind wing with orange patch on inner area; the terminal
band expanding at apex and tornus.

♀ with the ventral surface of abdomen orange except at extremity; no orange
and black between veins 2 and 4 of fore wing.

Hab. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 ♂ type; Sao Paulo, 2 ♀ (Jones). Exp. 30 millim.
Type † bura in Coll. Staudinger.

Draudt, M. (1915). Cosmosoma. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of the
World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 78, pl. 14 a.

C. centralis Wkr. (= bura H.-Schäff.) (14 a) is easily recognizable by the
triangular, orange spot between the lower median vein and the lower radial of
the ♂ forewing, the orange colour of the inner margin extends also for some
distance, before the black border, up the distal margin. The body is black
with metallic blue spots on the forehead, vertex, collar, thorax, legs and
abdomen. The black-margined shoulder-covers and a lateral spot at the base of
the abdomen are orange. The ♀ is without the orange spot of the forewing, but
the venter is orange, instead. Distributed from Panama through Brazil as far
as Paraguay.