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H. STEMPFFER 



*Leptomyrina phidias (Fabricius), 1793. Fig. Mabille, 1885. 

 rabe (Boisduval) , 1833. 

 Leptomyrina rabe (Boisduval), see phidias. 

 *Leptomyrina sudanica Stempffer, 1964 : 1285, fig. 



LEPTOMYRINA (GONATOMYRINA) Aurivillius 



Gonatomyrina Aurivillius, 1924, in Seitz, Macrolep. World 13 : 422. Type-species : Papilio 

 lara Linnaeus, 1764, by monotypy. 



Only distinguished from other species of Leptomyrina by the shape of the hind wing in which 

 the filiform tail at vein ib is lacking but, on the other hand, the actual anal angle is produced 

 as a triangular prolongation which forms a kind of broad, blunt tail. The anal lobe is absent. 

 These characters are accentuated in L. gorgias which Aurivillius regarded as a variety of lara. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 152). Similar to those of other species of Leptomyrina ; those of 

 gorgias almost identical with lara. 



The early stages of Gonatomyrina have been dealt with in the following publica- 

 tions : — Murray, 1935 ; Clark and Dickson, 1944, /. ent. Soc. sth. Afr. 7 : 97 and 

 1947, 10 : 128 ; Pinhey 1949 : 106. The larvae of lara and gorgias live within the 

 leaves of fleshy plants of the genera Cotyledon, Kalanchoe, Echeveria, Crassula and 

 Mesembryanthemum, feeding on their tissues. It was principally on the characters 

 of larval chaetotaxy that Clark and Dickson specifically separated gorgias and lara 

 (1957, J. ent. Soc. sth. Afr. 20 : 333). 



List of Species of Leptomyrina (Gonatomyrina) 



*Leptomyrina (Gonatomyrina) gorgias (Stoll), 1790. 

 * Leptomyrina (Gonatomyrina) lara lara (Linne), 1764. 



Leptomyrina (Gonatomyrina) lara cana Talbot, 1935, Entomologist's mon. 

 Mag. 71 : 121. 



Leptomyrina (Gonatomyrina) lara sobrina Talbot, 1935 : 121. 



Fig. 152. Leptomyrina (Gonatomyrina) lara lara (Linnaeus), q* genitalia. 



