Lycomorphodes flavipars Hampson, 1909

Hampson, G.F. (1909). Descriptions of new genera and species of Syntomidae,
Arctiadae, Agaristidae, and Noctuidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History
(8) 4: 344-388; p. 356.

805 a. Lycomorphodes flavipars, sp. n.

Male. Head and thorax orange-yellow, with fuscous-brown stripes on dorsum and
shoulders; palpi, lower part of frons, and antennae brown; fore legs brown,
with some yellowish on femora and first joint of tarsi; mid and hind legs
yellow banded with brown; abdomen crimson, the extremity and ventral surface
yellow, some fuscous at tip of anal tuft and before the anal tuft on ventral
surface. Fore wing fuscous brown; the inner margin orange-yellow, expanding
into a patch at base; a broad postmedial orange-yellow band, its inner edge
excurved, its outer angled outwards at middle and to tornus. Hind wing deep
crimson, with terminal fuscous band, rather broad at apex and narrowing to a
point at submedian fold.
Hab. W. Colombia, Jiminez, 1 male type. Exp. 20 mm.

Hampson, G.F. (1914). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, Supplement vol. 1 (Amatidae and Arctiadae, Nolinae and Lithosianae):
p. 692, pl. 36, fig. 23.

807 b. Lycomorphodes flavipars. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 23.)
Lycomorphodes flavipars, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) iv. p. 356 (1909).

Male. Head and thorax orange-yellow with fuscous brown stripes on dorsum and
shoulders; palpi, lower part of frons, and antennae brown; fore legs brown
with some yellowish on femora and 1st joint of tarsi; mid and hind legs
yellow banded with brown; abdomen crimson, the extremity and ventral surface
yellow, some fuscous at tip of anal tuft and before the anal tuft on ventral
surface. Fore wing fuscous brown; the inner margin orange-yellow expanding
into a patch at base; a broad postmedial orange-yellow band, its inner edge
excurved, its outer angled outwards at middle and to tornus. Hind wing deep
crimson with terminal fuscous band, rather broad at apex and narrowing to a
point at submedian fold.
Ab. 1. Abdomen with the anal tuft wholly black; fore wing yellow tinged with
scarlet, the black-brown markings reduced to a fascia on basal half of costa
and streak on median nervure to just beyond end of cell.
Hab. Panama, Lino (Fassl); W. Colombia, Jiminez, 1 male type. Exp. 20 millim.

Draudt, M. (1918). Lithosiinae. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 254, pl. 34 e.

L. flavipars Hmps. (34 e) is easily recognizable by the carmine hindwings;
abdomen carmine. Head and thorax orange, striped brown; ventral side and
abdominal end yellow. Forewings blackish-brown, proximal margin and a broad
postmedian band orange. -- In the form: reducta form. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.)
(34 e) the forewings are preponderantly yellow suffused with scarlet, only a
small stripe at the base of the costal margin and one on the median at the
cell-end being blackish-brown, the apex of the abdomen being black in this
form. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. Panama; West Colombia.