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List of Species of Zizeeria 



*Zizeeria karsandra (Moore), 1865. 

 * Zizeeria knysna (Trimen), 1862. 



lysinion (Hiibner), 1803, invalid homonym of lysimon (Stoll), 1790. 

 Zizeeria lysimon (Hiibner), see knysna. 



Genus ZIZINA Chapman 



Zizina Chapman, 1910, Trans, ent. Soc. Lond. 43 : 482 ; Swanepoel, 1953 : 75. Type-species : 



Lycaena labradus Godart (an Indo-Australian species) by original designation. 

 Cupido Schrank (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 378 ; 1925 : 495. 

 Lycaena Fabricius (partim) ; Murray, 1935 : 181. 



Eyes clothed in short, very fine hair ; palpi long, slightly ascending, second segment long, 

 laterally compressed, clothed below with long stiff bristles, third segment very much shorter, 

 slender, acuminate ; antennae slender, somewhat more than half the length of the costa, club 

 flattened, well differentiated ; thorax clothed below with long white silky hair ; $ fore leg, 

 tibia a little shorter than the femur, tarsus unsegmented. 



Wing shape. Fore wing subtriangular, costa evenly convex, apex rounded, outer margin 

 weakly convex, hind wing oval, no tail. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 345). Fore wing with 11 veins ; 11 partially anastomosed with 12. 



Male genitalia (Text-fig. 224). Uncus composed of two oval lobes fused to the tegumen on 

 either side of the median depression in its terminal margin ; subunci long, slender, curved, 

 no apical hook ; tegumen and vinculum large, lower fultura composed of two slender arms 

 fused to the base of the valves ; valves oblong, upper process much longer than the lower one 

 and with digitate apex ; penis ovoid, its extremity cylindrical with a slender sharp point ; 

 vesica with numerous cornuti ; uncal lobes clothed with long fine hair, at the base of each 

 valve there is a very long, very strong, sharp-pointed bristle and in the middle of the anterior 

 edges of the valves there are a series of long bristles less robust than the one at the base. 



Fig. 224. Zizina labradus (Godart), <J genitalia. 



