Idalus herois

DISTRIBUTION: Central & South America.
TYPE LOCALITY: Mexico.
BELIZE RECORDS: Augustine; Las Cuevas.
METHOD OF IDENTIFICATION: illustrated by Watson (1971) in fig. 21f (adult, black and white) and 114c,d (male gemitalia). Adult illustrated in black and white by Hampson (1920) p. 41, text fig. 34 and in colour by Druce (1884) pl. 73, fig. 20.
NOTES: there are slight differences in thoracic coloration between my specimens and Hampson's description - I do not know whether this is a normal part of variation or suggests this is a different species from the one described from Mexico. I have not yet dissected my specimens to compare their genitalia with the figures of the Type's genitalia in Watson (1971)

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