Fulvocompe nemophila (Herrich-Schäffer, [1853])

Herrich-Schäffer, G. A. W. ([1853]). Sammlung neuer oder wenig bekannter
aussereuropäischer Schmetterlinge, vol. 1: pl. 14, fig. 60 (wrapper to
pl. 14). Described as Ecpantheria nemophila.

Figure only: the scans consulted contain the coloured figure 60 and the
later index line "Ecpantheria HV. nemophila H-S. f. 60. - Venez." (p. 78),
but no descriptive text.

Hampson, G. F. (1901). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, vol. 3, Arctiadae (Arctianae) and Agaristidae: p. 429, no. 1997
(as Turuptiana nemophila).

*1997. Turuptiana nemophila.

Ecpantheria nemophila, Herr.-Schäff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 60 (1854);
Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 217.

♂. Head and thorax olive-yellowish; palpi, frons, and antennae blackish
brown; tegulae edged with orange; patagia edged with black above; thorax
with dorsal black stripe; pectus and legs black and orange; abdomen orange,
with dorsal black patch from near base to near extremity, a lateral series
of blackish spots, the ventral surface greyish. Fore wing olive-yellow-brown;
the veins pale; a black patch at base of costa traversed by pale streaks; an
antemedial black line obtusely angled below the cell, then oblique; a medial
black patch on costa traversed by pale streaks and giving rise to a line
angled on median nervure, then incurved; a postmedial black patch from costa
to lower angle of cell traversed by pale streaks on the veins, and with a
spot of the ground-colour beyond the cell; a subterminal series of pale-edged
elongate black spots bisected by the pale veins. Hind wing yellow, with a
blackish streak in cell joining the postmedial sinuous band terminating at
vein 1; a subterminal series of spots on the veins.

Hab. Venezuela, Aroa. Exp. 44 millim.

Seitz, A. (1919). Turuptiana. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 313, pl. 39 k
(as Turuptiana nemophila; sheet dated "Publ. 29. IX. 1919"). (German
edition: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 6: 313.)

T. nemophila H.-Schäff. (39 k) has olive forewings, marked creamy-white only
at the costa and in the marginal area, with blackish-brown costal triangles,
curved transverse lines, and subterminal ellipses crossed by light veins.
The ♂ hindwings yolk-coloured with black bands, those of the ♀ blackish,
except the broad yellow distal margin, and clouded yellowish. Abdominal
dorsum in the posterior half black. Central America, Venezuela. — pratincola
form. nov. (39 k) differs by the ♂ forewings exhibiting much more
creamy-white parts, the hindwings being scarcely spotted. In the ♀ all the
markings are of a more distinct and deeper tinge, the hindwings exhibiting
bright yellow markings, the dorsum of the abdomen being black almost to the
base. From the Rio Songo (Bolivia). — obscura Hmps. (39 k) has almost
monotonous forewings, indistinct and less speckled markings, the hindwings
being in the ♀ almost like the forewings. Peru and Ecuador.