GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 



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gradually swollen fusiform club ; thorax clothed below with long, silky white hairs ; o" f° re l e g 

 femur clothed with long white hairs, tibia shorter than the femur, tarsus unsegmented, bearing 

 below small stiff bristles. 



Wing shape : fore wing inner margin slightly lobed in its basal half. Male secondary sexual 

 characters : on the underside of the fore wing there is a tuft of long black hairs on the inner 

 margin at the level of its convexity ; on the upperside of the hind wing there is a matt glandular 

 patch on the origin of vein 7. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 279). Fore wing with 11 veins ; 10 and 11 free, from the upper 

 edge of the cell ; vein 8 absent. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 96). Uncus composed of two lobes separated by the shallow rounded 

 depression of the posteior edge of the tegumen ; subunci long, rather slender, strongly curved, 

 with a very shallow apical hook ; tegumen very large hood-shaped, ; vinculum narrow 

 with an indistict saccus ; no lower fultura ; valves narrow, their lower edges widely fused 

 together basally, their upper processes connected in the middle by a narrow band which surrounds 

 the penis ; penis elongate, wide open on the upper surface proximally ; vesica bearing many 

 cornuti, which give it a shagreened appearance, and enclosing a long cuneus ; uncus and distal 

 parts of the valves pilose. 



I have examined the male genitalia of all the Hypokopelates. They are very 

 similar to those of H. mera, described above. In most cases they do not even present 

 useful specific characters. 



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List of Species of Hypokopelates 



anetia (Hulstaert), 1924, Revue zool. afr. 12 : 120. 



anetta Talbot, 1935, Entomologist's mon. Mag. 71 : 76, fig. 



angelita angelita (Suffert), 1904. Fig. Aurivillius in Seitz, 1923. 



angelita makala (Bethune Baker), 1908. 



angelita schultzei (Aurivillius), 1907. 



aruma aruma (Hewitson), 1873. Fig. Hewitson, 1878. 



arutna simplex (Schultze), 1917. 



azurea Stempffer, 1964 : 1280, figs. 



canescens Joicey & Talbot, 192 1, Bull. Hill Mus. Witley 1 : 90, 



catori (Bethune Baker), 1903, ($) ; Stempffer, 1964 : 1280 (9). 

 cobaltina Stempffer, 1964 : 1271, figs. 



Fig. 96. Hypokopelates mera (Hewitson), $ genitalia. 



