GENERA OF AFRICAN LYCAENIDAE 



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Wing shape. Fore wing subtriangular, costa and outer margin convex ; hind wing oval, 

 no tail. According to Courvoisier I.e., Freyeria differs from Chilades in the absence of androconia. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 340). Fore wing with 11 veins, 11 is bent towards 12 but not 

 confluent with it. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 214). Resembling closely those of Chilades, but the two processes 

 of the uncus are less slender and shorter ; subunci long, with massive bases, bent at an acute 

 angle about one-third from origin, apex ending in a shallow hook ; tegumen, pseudotergum 

 and furca similar to those of Chilades ; valves fusiform, typical of Plebeiinae, connected to 

 the pseudotergum by a thin membrane, upper process ending in a comb, lower process with a 

 rounded apex, penis elongate, slightly curved, widely open towards its slender apex, vesica 

 with fine cornuti, uncus and valves especially the lower process, pilose. 



The male genitalia of minuscula (Text-fig. 215) are like those of trochylus but differ 

 as follows : Uncus a little more massive and with the apices of the lobes slightly 

 recurved to form a hook ; subunci less robust, especially at the base ; comb of 

 valves a little broader. 



The species of Freyeria closely resemble those of Chilades. Both genera are 

 distributed throughout almost the whole of the Old World. Chilades ranges from 

 Egypt to the New Hebrides. F. trochylus is found in Europe in the Balkans and its 

 range extends as far as Ferghana in Central Asia and in Africa to the Cape. 



The caterpillar of F. trochylus has been observed by Pinhey (1949 : 120) in 

 Rhodesia where it feeds upon Heliotrope and Indigo/era. 



List of Species of Freyeria 



*Freyeria minuscula (Aurivillius), 1909. 

 Freyeria parva (Murray), see trochylus. 

 *Freyeria trochylus (Freyer), 1844. 

 parva (Murray), 1874. 



Fig. 214. Freyeria trochylus (Freyer), <£ genitalia. 



