Ctenucha andrei Rothschild, 1912

Rothschild, W. (1912). New Syntomidae. Novitates Zoologicae 19: 151-186;
p. 184. Original description.

161. Ctenucha andrei sp. nov.

♀. Pectus and underside of abdomen brown-black. Forewing black-brown,
nervures pale fuscous, oblique white postmedian transverse bar from subcosta
to termen at vein 2. Hindwing blackish steel-blue, fringe white.

Hab. Ariapite Valley, Trinidad, June 1902.

Hampson, G. F. (1914). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, Supplement vol. 1, Amatidae and Arctiadae (Nolinae and Lithosianae):
p. 374, no. 1159 c, pl. XXI, fig. 18.

1159 c. Ctenucha andrei. (Plate XXI. fig. 18.)

Ctenucha andrei, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 184 (1912).

Head and thorax dark brown with fine white streaks on patagia and dorsum of
thorax; eyes with slight white ring; basal half of palpi and throat orange;
coxae and femora with slight white streaks; abdomen dark brown tinged with
blue, the ventral surface with slight white segmental rings; the anal tuft
orange. Fore wing black-brown with fine grey streaks on the veins, in the
cell and in submedian fold; an oblique white band from below costa beyond
middle to below vein 3 towards termen, narrowing below. Hind wing
black-brown suffused with blue; cilia white with some fuscous towards
tornus.

Hab. Trinidad, Ariapite Valley, type † ♀ in Coll. Rothschild; Br. Guiana,
Demerara (Rodway), 1 ♂. Exp. 46 millim.

Draudt, M. (1915). Ctenucha. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of
the World, vol. 6, The American Bombyces and Sphinges: p. 190. (German
edition: Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 6: 190.)

C. andrei Rothsch. Chest and underside of abdomen brownish-black, forewings
blackish-brown with lighter veins and an oblique white band from the
subcosta behind the middle to the proximal angle. Hindwings blackish
steel-blue with white fringes. Trinidad.