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The male genitalia of cissus and mauritanica are almost identical with those of 

 iobates. As cissus has no tail on its hind wing, Karsch (1895 : 297) included it in 

 the genus Neolycaena de Niceville (type-species sinensis Alpheraky). In my 

 opinion this arrangement cannot be correct as, judging from the male genitalia, the 

 genus Neolycaena belongs to the subfamily Theclinae, whereas cissus belongs to the 

 Lampidinae ; moreover the presence or absence of a tail in the hind wing has no 

 generic value. 



The early stages of cissus have been described by Jackson (1937, Trans. R. ent. 

 Soc. Lond. 86 : 237). The caterpillar lives in the pods of Eriosema cordifolium 

 Hochst (Leguminosae) ; it does not seem to be myrmecophilous. 



List of Species of Cupidopsis 



*Cupidopsis cissus cissus (Godart), 1823. Fig. Mabille, 1885-87. Fig. genitalia, 

 Stempffer, 1938, Mission Omo 4. 

 Cupidopsis cissus f. aberrans (Butler), 1878. 

 Cupidopsis cissus f. albiradiatus (Stoneham), 1938, Bull. Stoneham Mus., 



No. 36 : 3. 

 Cupidopsis cissus f. immaculatus (Stoneham), 1938, I.e. No. 36 : 3. 

 Cupidopsis cissus catharina (Trimen), 1862. 

 *Cupidopsis iobates iobates (Hopffer), 1855. Fig. Hopffer, 1862. 

 siwani (Trimen), 1862. 

 Cupidopsis iobates f. conjungens (Strand), 1911. 

 Cupidopsis iobates ochreopuncta (Aurivillius), 1925. 

 Cupidopsis iobates uranochroa Ungemach, 1932, Mem. Soc. Sci. nat. phys. 



Maroc 32 : 97, fig. 

 Cupidopsis mauretanica Riley, 1932, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (10) 10 : 141, fig. 

 Cupidopsis siwani (Trimen), see iobates. 



Fig. 205. Cupidopsis iobates iobates (Hopffer), <J genitalia. 



