Agylla argentifera (Walker, 1866)

Walker, F. (1866). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the
Collection of the British Museum, Part 35: Supplement, Part 5: p. 1911.
Described as Halesidota argentifera.

Halesidota argentifera.

Mas. Argenteo-alba; caput nigricante fasciatum; palpi graciles, ascendentes,
articulo 3o lanceolato; thorax glaber; abdomen pilis longis flavo-albis
vestitum; tibiae anticae supra nigricantes; alae longae, angustae.

Male. Silvery white. Head with a blackish band between the antennae. Palpi
smooth, slender, closely applied to the head, not rising higher than the
vertex; third joint lanceolate, less than half the length of the second.
Antennae slender, finely setulose. Thorax very smooth. Abdomen extending a
little beyond the hind wings, thinly clothed with long yellowish white
hairs. Legs smooth, stout; tarsi tawny, pilose; fore tibiae blackish above.
Wings long, narrow. Fore wings acute; exterior border slightly convex, very
oblique. Length of the body 8 lines; of the wings 26 lines.
a. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection.

Hampson, G.F. (1900). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, vol. 2: Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Nolinae, Lithosianae): p. 195,
pl. 23, fig. 24.

397. Agylla argentifera. (Plate XXIII. fig. 24.)
Halesidota argentifera, Wlk. xxxv. 1911 (1866); Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am.,
Het. ii. p. 401; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 337.

Male. Silvery white; palpi orange, black at tips; frons black; antennae
orange; tegulae tinged with fuscous; legs mostly orange; fore tibiae and
tarsi streaked with black; abdomen dorsally tinged with ochreous. Fore wing
with the costa narrowly orange; a more or less prominent wedge-shaped
fuscous patch on inner area beyond middle.
Female. Fore wing without orange on costa or fuscous patch on inner area.
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (Trujillo), 3 males, 1 female; Costa Rica (Underwood),
2 males, 2 females, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Venezuela, 1 male type; Brazil
(Dohrn), 1 male. Exp., male 46, female 52 millim.

Draudt, M. (1919). Lithosiinae. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 281, pl. 37 a.

A. argentifera Wkr. (37 a) is quite silvery white with orange palpi, legs
and antennae, the palpal terminal joint and forehead being black. Collar
blackish, abdomen above tinted ochreous-yellowish; in the male the costa of
the forewing is orange and a dark spot at the proximal margin, both being
absent in the female. Expanse of wings: 46 to 52 mm. Mexico, Costa Rica,
Venezuela, Brazil.