Apiconoma

Tavares, Eduardo Vasconcelos, Bó, Saulo Dal, Melo, Ana Beatriz De Medeiros & Pereira-Colavite, Alessandre, 2025, Phenotypic variation in Apiconoma witti Laguerre, 2016 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae, Arctiinae), with a distribution map for the genus and an identification key to the species, Zootaxa 5604 (2), pp. 191-194 : 194

Key to Apiconoma species

1. Forewing entirely brown, lacking yellow and semi-transparent oval marks, with a small bluish dot; if bluish dot absent, then hindwing with margin not too darkened......................................... Apiconoma witti Laguerre (in part)

1’. Forewing with at least one yellow stripe or oval mark........................................................ 2

2(1’). Forewing dark, with only one yellow transverse band relatively close to the apex of the wing; hindwing completely dark........................................................................ Apiconoma opposita (Walker) (female)

2’. Forewing dark brown, with two oval yellow markings on the wing.............................................. 3

3(2’). Male genitalia laterally showing the valva three times longer than wide ( Fig. 2A, B ); annellus short, with a sharp, pointed apex directed outward ( Fig. 2B )................................................... Apiconoma witti Laguerre (in part)

3’. Male genitalia laterally showing the valva two to three times longer than wide; annellus elongated..................... 4

4(3’). Male genitalia laterally showing the valva twice as long as wide, distinctly constricted in the middle, like an indentation; annellus elongated, with a rounded apex pointing outward............................. Apiconoma opposita (Walker)

4’. Male genitalia laterally showing the valva two to three times longer than wide; annellus elongated, with a pointed apex directed outward....................................................................... Apiconoma mojui Laguerre

Figures

FIGURE 2. Apiconoma witti Laguerre 2016 male genitalia.A—genital capsule, lateral view; B—genital capsule, ventral view; C—aedeagus, lateral view. Legends: aed, aedeagus; ann, annelus; dc, ductus ejaculatorius; tg, tegumen; unc, uncus; vlv, valva. Scale: 1 mm.