Calonotos chalcipleura Hampson, 1898

Hampson, G. F. (1898). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the
British Museum, vol. 1, Syntomidae: p. 334, no. 736, pl. XII, fig. 8.

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. (1915). Calonotus. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera
of the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 108, pl. 17 k;
Additions and Corrections p. 205.

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.

Additions and corrections: p. 108, line 14 from below, to chalcipleurus
add the habitat: Venezuela.

The species referred to, tiburtus, is described by Draudt thus (p. 108):

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.

Zerny, H. (1931). Ergebnisse einer zoologischen Sammelreise nach
Brasilien, insbesondere in das Amazonasgebiet, ausgefuehrt von Dr. H.
Zerny. VII. Teil. Lepidoptera III: Die Syntomiden des Staates Para.
Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 45: 225-263; p. 242,
no. 96 (as Calonotos chalcipleurus).

96. Calonotos chalcipleurus Hmps.
Taperinha, end of July, one female at light.
Other distribution: Venezuela (Aroa).

[Zerny's remark following no. 97, Calonotos triplagus, p. 242:]
I have before me 3 further new species from the closest relationship of
chalcipleurus and triplagus, which all agree completely with these two in
the colouration and pattern of the body as well as in the wing
colouration, but which can easily be distinguished by the shape and
markings of the wings, at least in the male sex; the females, of whose
assignment to the males I am moreover not entirely certain, are
admittedly only difficult to tell apart.
Translated from the German original.