Albuna carulifera Hampson 1919

Albuna carulifera (Hampson)

Paranthrene carulifera Hampson, 1919:108

Paranthrene caerulifera Hampson—Turner, 1922:62 [invalid emendation]

Trochilium coracodes Turner, 1922:61 [New synonymy]

Conopia coracodes (Turner)—Dalla Torre, and Strand, 1925: 109

MALE—Head with vertex brown-black; occipital fringe brown-black dorsally, white laterally; antennae brown-black, scape white; front brown-black with white laterally; labial palpus broadly roughened, brown-black, strongly mixed with white dorsally and ventrally Thorax brown-black, mixed with white beneath wings and laterally above wings Abdomen brown-black, lightly powdered pale yellow and white, scattered laterally and ventrally on each segment; anal tuft narrowly edged with white laterally Legs brown-black; tibiae white mixed with brown-black, roughened, especially on hindlegs; tibial spurs mostly white; tarsi with some white at joints Forewing mostly opaque with hyaline streaks basally, brown-black with iridescent blue medially, lightly powdered with few white scales on discal spot and costal margin toward base; ventrally with some white near base Hindwing hyaline, well-developed discal spot, veins and narrow margins brown-black Wing length of male, 11 mm Male genitalia (Figure 10) with valva bluntly pointed apically, thick, dark, multifurcate scales on costal portion, setaceaous scales apically, dense cluster of dark, spinelike scales on saccular ridge near base of valva; gnathos bifurcate, each lobe with about three or four spinelike processes along margin; saccus short, somewhat pointed apically; aedeagus short; otherwise typical of species of Paranthrenini

FEMALE—Differs from the male by the following: thorax without white mixed beneath and laterally above wings, but with small white spot laterally on anterior margin; abdomen entirely brown-black, anal tuft fairly elongate relative to females of most species of Sesiidae, truncate apically; legs entirely brown-black, foretibia tufted on posterior edge; forewing entirely opaque, with blue iridescence medially as on male; hindwing broadly opaque, brown-black with blue iridescence from costa to vein 2A, but with broad hyaline band along apical and anal margins, and small hyaline areas at wing base Wing length of female, 13 mm Female genitalia (Figure 20) with ductus bursae elongate, slender, membranous with narrow sclerotized ring near ostium bursae; ductus seminalis arising just anterior to sclerotized ring; corpus bursae obovate, without signum

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TYPES—Holotype: Female, in the British Museum (Natural History): “Type”; “Kuranda, QUEENSLAND, 3111905, Dodd, 13025”; “Walsingham Collection, 1910–427, 13025”; “Paranthrene caerulifera Hmpsn, type ”; “Genitalia Slide by T D Eichlin, USNM 76150 ” (A carulifera) Holotype: Male, in the Austalian National Insect Collection: “Trochilium coracodes Turn”; “HOLOTYPE, Trochilium coracodes Turner, 1922”; “Aust Nat Ins Coll”; “Toowoomba, Q, 27/2/21, Bernard”; “Genitalia Slide By T D Eichlin, USNM 76087 ” (A coracodes)

TYPE LOCALITIES—Kuranda, Queensland (A carulifera); Toowoomba, Queensland (coracodes)

HOST-PLANT—Unknown

DISCUSSION—Turner (1922) mentions two specimens of A coracodes, one of which is the above-listed male The other, supposedly a female, could not be located He apparently described only the male After examining the types of both names, it is our conclusion that they are conspecific, Hampson’s Paranthrene carulifera having priority over Turner’s more recently described Trochilium coracodes This species probably occurs throughout the western coastal regions of Queensland The types were collected in late January and February