Chrysopolomides Hering, 1937

Taberer, Tabitha R., 2023, Revision of the family Chrysopolomidae Aurivillius, 1895 (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea) with the description of three new genera, Bonn zoological Bulletin 72 (1), pp. 1-23 : 13-14

Chrysopolomides Hering, 1937

Figs 9 , 30

Annals of the Transvaal Museum 17: 240.

Type species. Chrysopoloma nivea Aurivillius, 1903 (by original designation)

Holotype. ♂.

Type locality. Bipindi, Cameroon ( MfN).

Genus re-description. Medium size. Antennae bipectinate, white, flagellum beige. Ground colour of head, thorax, abdomen and wings white; collar and palps orange. Forewing broad, outer margin arcuate; costal margin black; postmedial line dark brown, straight, gently kinked between veins R2 and R3. Fringe long, pale cream, cilia dark brown in distal quarter. Hindwing rounded, medial line dark brown, generally straight but with very slight undulation; fringe as in forewing. Underside. Ground colour as upperside, legs orange, hindtibia with one pair of spurs. Forewing with brown, gently undulating postmedial line and dark brown, crescent-shaped discal dash. Hindwing with brown postmedial line, kinked between veins M2 and M3 and small, rounded brown discal spot. Male genitalia. Single posterior process of transtilla relatively short, narrow, rounded; paired anterior processes of transtilla short, bulb-shaped, completely separated. Valve wide at base, tapered, narrow, long, rounded distally, finely scobinate in distal half. Juxta broad at base, with long, narrow, distally rounded central process. Phallus short.

Diagnosis. The single species of Chrysopolomoides is unmistakable with no other Chrysopolomidae exhibiting a pearlescent white ground-colour of the wings and body.

Distribution. Widespread in forested regions of West and Central Africa.

Species content

C. nivea ( Aurivillius, 1903)

Figures

Figs 4–10. Adults.4. Ectropa ancilis, South Africa (NHMUK). 5. Muscectropa alberici, Ivory Coast (ANHRT). 6. Ectropona dargei, Tanzania (ZSM). 7. Pseudectropona revelii, Liberia (ANHRT). 8. Chrysectropa roseofascia, Ivory Coast (ANHRT). 9. Chrysopolomides nivea, Sierra Leone (ANHRT). 10. Vietteopoloma madagascariensis, Madagascar (MNHN).

Figs 29–30. Male genitalia (a = clasping apparatus; b = phallus). 29. Chrysectropa roseofascia, Gabon, genitalia slide No. TT 179 (ANHRT). 30. Chrysopolomides nivea, Liberia, genitalia slide No. TT 107 (ANHRT).