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Genus CR UDARIA Wallengren 



Crudaria Wallengren, 1875, Qfvevs K. svenska VetenskAkad. Fork. 32 : 86 ; Aurivillius, 1924 : 



431 ; Swanepoel, 1953 : x 49- Type-species : Arhopala leroma Wallengren, by monotypy. 

 Phasis Hiibner (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 343 ; Murray, 1935 : 106. 



Head rather broad ; eyes glabrous, palpi long, ascending, second segment laterally com- 

 pressed, clothed with long scales and hair, third segment long, slender, acuminate ; antennae 

 slightly more than half the length of the costa, becoming gradually stouter up to the poorly 

 differentiated fusiform club ; thorax rather robust, thickly clothed below with white hair ; 

 o* fore leg with tibia shorter than femur, tarsus rather slender, unsegmented, finely spinose 

 below ; mid and hind legs with tibiae shorter than femora. 



Wing shape. Fore wing with costa arched at its base then straight, apex angular, outer 

 margin convex between apex and vein 4, then straight ; hind wing oval, outer margin rounded, 

 a short delicate tail at the end of vein ib a small lobe at the anal angle. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 313). Fore wing with ti veins ; hind wing cell short. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 160). Uncus composed of two large semicircular lobes separated 

 by the rounded depression on the distal edge of the tegumen ; subunci much reduced, curved, 

 apex blunt, with a short rounded apophysis on the lower margin, tegumen large ; vinculum 

 fairly broad with a rounded saccus ; lower fultura consists of a triangular plate with deeply 

 notched base ; valves oblong with digitate apices, their upper margins connected in the middle 

 by a membrane ; penis elongate, robust, swollen at the base, apex obliquely truncate ; uncus 

 and apices of valves clothed with long, fine hair. 



The early stages of Crudaria leroma have been described by Gowan Clarke (1958, 

 J. ent. Soc. sth. Afr. 24 : 127). 



List of Species of Crudaria 



Crudaria capensis van Son, 1956, Ann. Transv. Mus. 22 : 505. 

 Crudaria delagoensis (E. Sharpe), see leroma. 

 *Crudaria leroma leroma (Wallengren), 1857. Fig. Trimen, 1870. 

 zorites (Hewitson), 1874 ; delagoensis (E. Sharpe), 1891. 

 Crudaria leroma albomaculate Aurivillius, 1924 : 432. 

 Crudaria zorites (Hewitson), see leroma. 



Fig. 160. Crudaria leroma leroma (Wallengren), q* genitalia. 



