GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 



Genus PSEUDONACADUBA Stempffer 



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Pseudonacaduba Stempffer, 1943, Ann.Soc.ent.Fr. 1942 : 130 ; Pinhey, 1949 : 186 ; Swanepoel, 



J 953 '• 77- Type-species : Lycaena aethiops Mabille, by original designation. 

 Citpido Schrank (partim) ; Aurivillius [898 : 367 ; i<i-'5 : 471. 



Eyes densely pilose ; frons black with two narrow white lateral lines ; palpi long, ascending, 

 second segment long, laterally compressed, clothed below with long erect bristles, third seg- 

 ment fairly long, very slender, ending in a pointed apex ; antennae slender, about three-fifths 

 the length of the costa ; club flattened, well differentiated ; o" f° re ^ e g- femur clothed with 

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



Wing shape. Fore wing subtriangular, apex angular, outer margin convex ; hind wing oval, 

 no tail, anal angle well marked. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 331). Fore wing with ii veins ; 11 bent and confluent with 12 

 for part of its length. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 196). Uncus crescentic with sharp pointed horns, thin in the median 

 region ; subunci very robust, bent close to their massive base and bearing a distinct apical 

 hook ; tegumen fairly large, its lateral margin markedly tooth-shaped ; vinculum broad, with 

 a long slender saccus ; lower fultura consists of two divergent arms ; valves oblong with 

 rounded apices fused together by their lower edges in the basal half ; penis elongate, gradually 

 tapering in its internal portion, slightly dilated in its external portion, which ends in a sharp 

 point, the meatus runs almost along its whole length and its edges bear spinules in its apical 

 part ; uncus and apices of valves long pilose. 



In Pseiidonacaduba sichela the male genitalia (Text-fig. 197) resemble those of 

 aethiops except that the apices of the uncus, instead of tapering to a point, are 

 crowned with a kind of volute ending in a hook, the subunci are shorter, and the 

 valves more widely fused together, and with an obliquely truncated apex. In the 

 figure the vesica, bearing fine cornuti, is exerted. 



Karsch (1895, Ent. Nachr., 21 : 297) placed sichela in the genus Orthomiella de 

 Niceville. Aurivillius (1898 : 357), followed by most other authors of faunistic 

 papers, included aethiops and sichela in the genus Nacaduba Moore. 



Fig. 196. Pseudonacaduba aethiops (Mabille), o" genitalia. 



