Calodesma dioptis (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)

Felder, C. & Rogenhofer, A. F. (1874). Reise der oesterreichischen Fregatte
Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des
Commodore B. von Wuellerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil, Band 2, Abtheilung
2: Lepidoptera, Atlas, Heft 4. Staatsdruckerei, Wien; pl. 103, fig. 13 (as
Chamesthema dioptis).

Figure only; the species was established by the plate without a text
description.

Hering, M. (1925). Pericopidae. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges. Alfred Kernen,
Stuttgart; p. 433, pl. 60 g.

C. dioptis Fldr. (60 g). For this species Felder established the genus
Chamesthema. Male similar to those of the preceding species, abdomen above with
a white longitudinal line and below with broad whitish curls; head and patagia
partly white. Forewing with a white longitudinal area behind the cell and a
wedgeshaped longitudinal stripe in the cell. Hindwing with a white, black-veined
central area, which may be very much darkened. Discernible from the females of
C. collaris Drury (60 h), in which also the forewing may be brightened up behind
the cell, by the white dorsal abdominal line. From Venezuela to Brazil and
Bolivia.

The albiapex paragraph referred to (same work, p. 432, pl. 60 h):

C. albiapex sp. n. (60 h) resembles plorata, fringes in the female white, male
and female at the apex of the hindwing with a narrow white spot. Band of
forewing oftener than in plorata shortened also in the male. Type (male and
female) in the Berlin Museum from Pernambuco; Bahia. Female from Paraguay in the
Tring Museum.

The collaris paragraph referred to (same work, p. 432, pl. 60 h):

C. collaris Drury (60 h) is like contracta, but the markings are white, in the
hindwing sometimes dingy white, often indistinct or absent. In the male the
yellow colouring at the prothorax more extensive. Apex of abdomen likewise
ochreous-yellow. Band of forewing shortened, only a white spot behind the cell,
hindwing uni-coloured. Fringes in the male white, in the female black. Range as
in contracta.