GENERA OF AFRICAN LVCAENIDAE 



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Genus SPINDASIS Wallengren 



Spindasis Wallengren, 1857, K. svenska VetenskAkad. Handl., (n.f.) 2 (1) 4 : 45 ; Murray, 

 "'.55 : 83 ; Pinhey, i<>4<) : 104 ; Swanepoel, 1953 : 165. Type-species : Spindasis niasili- 

 kazi Wallengren, 1857 (Aphnaeus natalensis Westwood, [851), by monotvpv. 



Spindasis Wallengren (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 328 ; 1923 : 410. 



Eyes glabrous ; palpi fairly long, slightly divergent, second segment long, ascending and 

 clothed with dense scales, third segment horizontal, short ; antennae slightly longer than half 

 the length of the costa, club fusiform, not well differentiated ; thorax robust, clothed with 

 long silky hair ; abdomen black and white-annulated ; ,_J fore leg, femur clothed with long, 

 white, silky hair, tibia slightly shorter than the femur and armed below with long spines, 

 tarsus unsegmented and also armed below with numerous spines ; mid and hind legs strong, 

 femora clothed with long white hair, tibiae shorter than the femora and- bearing apical spurs, 

 tarsi long, segmented and bearing numerous spines. 



Wing shape. Fore wing triangular, the apex pointed ; hind wing produced, a delicate tail 

 at the end of vein 1 and a longer one at the end of lb, a small lobe at the anal angle. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 502). Fore wing with 1 1 veins. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 140). Uncus composed of two lobes with straight posterior edges 

 and rounded apices, widely separated by a shallow rounded depression with a small median 

 prominence ; subunci long and robust, bent at an acute angle at about two tilths of their 

 length ; tegumen large and trapezoidal, tegumen and uncus together in situ are hood-shaped . 

 vinculum rather broad with a rounded saccus ; lower fultura shield-shaped, with a deep notch 

 in its upper edge ; valves elongate, subtriangular, with an almost straight inferior edge and 

 blunt apices, the two upper processes connected by a weakly sclerotized median band, which 

 passes above the penis as in species of Aphnaeus and allied genera ; penis short, massive, with 

 cylindrical basal portion widely open dorsally, the dorsal surface then becoming bent at an 

 acute angle to the general axis of the penis, the large prominence thus formed being held, in 

 the natural position, in a notch of the upper edge of the median band, which unites the valves, 

 an arrangement which must circumscribe considerably the possible movement of the penis 

 during copulation ; the external portion of penis swollen, with an obliquely cut apex, its dorsal 

 edge bristling with short spines ; vesica with numerous line cornuti ; the lobes of the uncus, 

 apices of the valves and lower edge of the median band, all pilose. 



Fig. 141. Spindasis phanes (Trimen), <J genitalia. 



