Cyanopepla perilla (Druce, 1883)

Druce, H. (1883). Descriptions of new Species of Zygaenidae and Arctiidae.
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1883: 372-384; p. 381.
Described as Charidea perilla.

Charidea perilla, n. sp.

Primaries brown, a red spot at the base, and one beyond the cell near the
apex; secondaries bright carmine, the outer and inner margins dark brown;
head and thorax black shaded with blue; abdomen bright blue; underside
brown; underside of wings bright carmine, slightly margined with brown.

Expanse 1½ inch.

Hab. Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley).

This species is allied to C. bertha, but differs from it and all species
known to me.

Hampson, G. F. (1898). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, vol. 1, Syntomidae: p. 449, no. 988, pl. XV, fig. 8.

*988. Cyanopepla perilla. (Plate XV. fig. 8.)

Charidea perilla, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 381; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 161.

♀. Head and thorax black, with patches of metallic blue; abdomen dorsally
suffused with blue, and with segmental blue-green lines. Fore wing brownish
black, with blue point at base of costa; crimson spots below base and beyond
end of cell. Hind wing brownish black, with large crimson patch in, below,
and beyond cell from near base to near termen. Underside of both wings with
some blue below base of costa and a large crimson patch in, below, and
beyond cell; hind wing with crimson streak on inner area.

Hab. Ecuador, Sarayacu (Buckley). Exp. 40 millim. Type † in Coll. Druce.

Draudt, M. (1915). Cyanopepla. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 152, pl. 23 a.
(German edition: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 6: 152.)

C. perilla Druce (23 a). Head and thorax blackish-brown, with bluish-green
spots, the abdomen with narrow, metallic green segmental lines. The brown
forewings exhibit a bluish-green spot at the base of the costal margin,
below the base of the cell, and behind the cell, small red spots. The
hindwings are, in the ♀, red in the larger costal halves. Known only from
Ecuador.