Amastus aloniae Schaus 1933

Amastus aloniae Schaus

Amastus aloniae Schaus, 1933, p. 574.

Forewing 42.5 mm. Front of head white, vertex brownish orange. Tegulae white anteriorly, brownish orange posteriorly, with black line separating the orange and white areas. Patagia brownish orange with white anterolateral margin and white dorsolateral fringe, the orange and white areas separated by a black line. Rest of thorax brownish orange. Forewing brownish orange, with paler postmedial and subterminal fasciae. Hindwing orange-white. Abdomen orange anterodorsally; with black lateral spot on segment 3; black speckled with white laterally on segment 4, laterally and posteriorly on segment 5; segments 6 and 7 black speckled with white, the latter segment white posteriorly (the white area extended anteriorly along the middorsal line. Abdomen orange laterally, slightly greyish white ventrally (the posterior margin of each segment unsealed).

A single female type (USNM 34392) from Incachaca, Bolivia, is designated in the original description. There are no specimens of this species in the USNM collection other than the holotype which bears the anomolous handwritten label “Huigra, Ecuador”!

Holotype ♀: “Type No. 34392 U.S.N.M.; Huigra, Ecuador; Amastus aloniae Schs type; Holotype ♀ Amastus aloniae Schaus A.W. 1967; Arctiidae genitalia slide No. AW547.”