GEM K \ OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 



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Genus DURBANIA Trimen 



I >' I rbuma Trimen, 1862, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. (3) 1 : 400 ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 264. 



Durbania Trimen ; Aurivillius, 1914 : 302 ; Murray 1935 : 49. Type-species : D' Urban ta 



amakosa Trimen, by monotypy. 



Head small, frons and vertex shortly pilose ; eyes smooth ; palpi fairly long, densely scaly. 

 second segment long and robust, third short, slightly acuminate ; antennae short, composed of 

 24 to 27 segments, rather thick, with a distinct cylindrical gradual club having the last four 

 segments partly fused ; thorax short, densely clothed with short hairs above and with scales 

 and hair-scales below ; abdomen of medium length, scaly ; legs robust, clothed with scales but 

 no hairs, tibiae with 2-3 delicate spines below, tarsi long, spinose beneath ; fore tarsi of o* un- 

 segmented. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 236). Fore wing : vein 11 originates from the cell at a point nearer 

 to the origin of vein 10 than to the base. Hind wing with a short precostal vein at the base of 

 the wing. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 18). Uncus rounded with a shallow median depression, fused to a 

 fairlv large tegumen ; no subunci ; vinculum narrow and prolonged to form a large triangular 

 saccus ; valves oblong with a regular outline and rounded apes . base of penis robust, gradually 

 becoming more slender distally, and ending with a sharp point with a wide opening on its 

 dorsal surface ; uncus and valves abundantly clothed with fine hairs. 



The male genitalia of D. limbata are very close to those of D. amakosa, only the 

 apex of the valves is lightly excised. 



The early stages of D. amakosa have been described by Trimen (1887, S. Afr. 

 Butterflies 2 : 216). 



List of Species of Durbania 



Durbania amabilis Staudinger, see limbata. 

 *Durbania amakosa amakosa Trimen, 1862. 



Durbania amakosa ayresi van Son, 1941, // cut. Soc. sth. Afr. 4 : 182. 



Durbania amakosa natalensis van Son, 1959, Novos Taxa ent. 16 : 8. Fig. 

 *Durbania amakosa penningtoni van Son, 1959, Novos Taxa ent. 16 : 17. Fig. 

 *Durbania limbata Trimen, 1887. 

 amabilis Staudinger, li 



Fig. 19. Durbaniella clarki (van Son), <J genitalia. 



