Hypocrita rhaetia (Druce, 1895)

Druce, H. (1895). Descriptions of some new species of Heterocera from the
Eastern Islands and Tropical America. Annals and Magazine of Natural History
(6) 15: 41-50; pp. 46-47 (as Eucyane rhaetia).

Male. Primaries deep black, dark blue at the base, crossed beyond the middle by
a narrow white band, which extends from the costal margin to the anal angle;
the fringe white at the apex, black on the outer margin: secondaries black,
shot with bright dark blue at the base and along the inner margin; a row of
four very minute white spots close to the anal angle; the fringe white. Head,
antennae, palpi, and thorax black; abdomen above dark blue, on the underside
dark red; legs black, banded with white. Female similar to the male, but
larger, not shot with blue at the base of the primaries; a round red spot about
the middle of the costal margin on the primaries.
Expanse, male 2, female 3 inches.
Hab. Bolivia (Mus. Druce).

Hering, M. (1925). Pericopidae. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges. Alfred Kernen,
Stuttgart; p. 436, pl. 61 e (as Eucyane rhaetia).

E. rhaetia Drc. (61 e). Body blackish-blue, the last 5 abdominal segments in
the centre red. Wings black, at the base with a particularly intense blue
lustre. Discal band behind the cell narrow, parted black by the veins. Hindwing
only with the beginning of a submarginal band (up to four spots). Fringes of
the hindwings and at the apex of the forewing white. Colombia.