Hemeroplanes ornatus (Taxonomy)
General description:
Transferred to Leucorhampha by Rothschild & Jordan, 1903, Novit. zool.9 (suppl.): 380 (key), 382. Returned to Hemeroplanes by Hodges, 1971, in Dominick et al.Moths Amer. N of Mexico21: 108.
Morphology:
Yellow bands of abdomen upperside restricted to a series of narrow dorsal patches; apical fringes also more-or-less yellowish; tergites laterally almost black, as in Hemeroplanes diffusa. Silver mark of forewing upperside forked, 3-3.5 mm long. Harpe much longer than in Hemeroplanes triptolemus, sometimes nearly as sinuate as in Hemeroplanes diffusa.