Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Hemihyalea annario Dyar
Hemihyalea annario Dyar, 1914a, p. 148.
Forewing 34.0 mm. Head and thorax greyish yellow. Forewing greyish yellow, translucent except near margins; markings greyish brown, inconspicuous. Hindwing greyish yellow, becoming pastel red anally; translucent at margins, transparent otherwise. Dorsal surface of abdomen reddish orange, with greyish yellow anteriorly and laterally on segment 1, laterally on 2–6, laterally and posteriorly on 7; ventral surface greyish yellow.
Described from two female syntypes (“cotypes”) from Tuis, Costa Rica. The lectotype alone was labeled “type” by Dyar. The paralectotype is in the USNM collection.
Lectotype ♀: “Tuis, C. R.; June; Collection Wm Schaus; Type No. 18906 U.S.N.M.; Hemihyalea annorio Dyar type; Lectotype ♀ Hemihyalea annorio Dyar By A. Watson 1967; Arctiidae genitalia slide No. AW589.”
- bibliographic citation
- Watson, Allan. 1973. "An illustrated catalog of the Neotropic Arctiinae types in the United States National Museum (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) Part 2." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.50.1