Author ²

Distant, 1906

Description ²

Head and thorax above, face and body beneath, and legs brownish ochraceous; abdomen above sanguineous, with a broad, central, longitudinal, black fascia, and the apical area thickly covered with white waxy secretion; anterior and intermediate legs and posterior femora castaneous brown; tegmina with rather more than anterior half ochraceous, with black fasciate macular markings which contain inner green ocellate spots with testaceous centres; this area is followed by a transverse very pale ochraceous fascia, the apical area being purplish red, with internal areas of the reticulate veins piceous; wings very pale bluish green for about basal two thirds, the venation virescent and with some short fuscous streaks at base, apical area broadly fuscous brown; vertex of head somewhat deeply excavate; face obscurely tricarinate, division between face and clypeus profound, the latter arched; rostrum reaching the posterior coxa; posterior femora with five spines, the basal spine very minute. Long., excl. tegm., 18 mm.; exp. tegm. 44 mm.

Hab. Angola (Monteiro, Coll. Dist.).

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1. (c) NHM London, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by NHM London
2. (c) C. Mallory, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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