Pyrrhiades lucagus Cramer 1777

Pyrrhiades lucagus (Cramer) (Figs. 14, 15, wings, i genitalia)
Papilio lucagus Cramer, 1777 [1775-1791], 2: 123; pi. 176, fig. G (no locality cited). =Ismene juno Plotz, 1879b: 364 (Aburi). Pyrrhochalcia juno Aurivillius, 1925
[1908-1925]: 506. Coeliades juno Evans, 1937: 10; pi. 1, fig. 1. Coeliades lucagus Evans, 1946: 641.
We agree with Evans' resurrection (1946: 641) of the Cramer name lucagus for this species, even though the Cramer plate and description both mention the red-tipped abdomen. The abdomen is red-tipped, but Only ventrally. Nonetheless, we know no other species of hesperiid to which the description could refer. Evans (1937: 10) records lucagus from Guinea to Ghana.
Figures 14-16. Fig. 14, Pyrrhiades lucagus, new species, wing venation. Fig. 15, P. lucagus, $ genitalia, Cape Palmas, Liberia. Fig. 16, Pyrrhochalcia iphis, $ genitalia, Harbel, Liberia.
Liberian records, again the first for the country, are: Cape Palmas, 1 S , 1 5 , IV; Grand Cess, 2 9 , XI (Naysmith).
There are also specimens from Ghana and Sierra Leone in the collection of Carnegie Museum.

Pyrrhiades lucagus er en sommerfugl som hører til familien smygere (Hesperiidae).