GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 



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robust, especially in the <J, clothed below with long white hair ; o* fore leg, femur clothed with 

 long white hair, tibia shorter than the femur, tarsus unsegmented, finely spinose below. 



Wing shape : hind wing oval, apex rounded, outer margin showing a slight salient at the 

 end of vein 3, vein 2 prolonged to form a short filiform tail, a small rounded lobe between the 

 end of vein ib and the anal angle, abdominal margin slightly excised between the lobe and the 

 end of vein ia. The presence of this lobe renders easy the recognition of the species of Deudorix. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 275). The venation in the figure given by Murray (1935 : 60) is 

 incorrect ; the filiform tail is shown at the end of vein ib when in fact it is at the end of vein 2. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 92) : uncus composed of two lateral lobes separated by the rounded 

 depression of the hind edge of the tegumen ; subunci long, strong, bent in an acute angle, 

 suddenly narrowed a little before the apex, and with a small apophysis on the lower side at the 

 level of the bend ; tegumen very large, hood-shaped ; vinculum narrow with a small round 

 saccus ; no lower fultura ; valves small compared with the other structures, broadly fused 

 together in their lower oval halves, distally consisting of a slightly recurved process which has 

 an obliquely truncated apex, about midway the upper edges are folded inwards and connected 

 to each other by a membrane ; penis elongate, subcyhndrical, widely open dorsally and 

 proximally, widening apically ; vesica with a group of cornuti ending in a single more robust 

 apical spine ; uncus and middle part of valves pilose. 



The description given above is based on the type-species alone, Deudorix epijarbas. 

 Aurivillius included in the genus Deudorix all the Ethiopian Lycaenidae whose hind 

 wings have the shape of those of D. epijarbas (i.e. with a lobe near the anal angle and 

 a filiform tail at the end of vein 2) and whose venation agrees, at least on the whole, 

 with that of D. epijarbas. But among these species there are some that differ from 

 the type-species of Deudorix, either by the more rounded shape of the fore wings or 

 by some venational detail, or by the presence in the male of conspicuous secondary 

 sexual characters. Taking into account these differences, Karsch and H. H. Druce 

 have erected the following genera for African species of Deudorix (sensu Aurivillius), 

 Hypomyrina Druce, Actis Karsch, Kopelates Druce, Hypokopelates Druce, Pilo- 

 deudorix Druce, and Diopetes Karsch. Most modern authors make use of these 

 genera and they also assign to the Indo-Malayan genus Virachola Moore certain 

 species included in Deudorix by Aurivillius. To test the validity of the above- 

 mentioned genera I have examined their type-species and give the results under the 

 appropriate genera (See also p. 108). 



Fig. 92. Deudorix epijarbus (Moore), $ genitalia. 



