S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 64. (Budapest, 2003)

Diagnosis - Generic placement based on large size (fore wing length from base to costa exceeding 20 mm), dorsal fore wing androconial cluster with inter­cellular scent pad and extracellular scent patch; and ventral red basal spots occur­ring basally in fore wing costa and hind wing discal cell. There is no described sim­ilar congener in wingshape, coloration and markings. Hind wing vein 1A+2A with short tail; no tail at vein CuA2 terminus. Male dorsally iridescent timber green (sympatric congeners A. melidor lighter green or A. atys tinted blue) with triangu­late-shaped bipartate androconial cluster (rounded in mentioned congeners) and wider marginal border, reaching submedian area (restricted to margin in men­tioned congeners). Male with inter- and intracellular, horizontal, black lines on wing venter (absent in all described congeners) and without gleaming basal spots and marginal pattern (present in described congeners). Description - Male. Fore wing length from base to apex 20-24 mm (m = 22; n = 34). Head black with white forehead; palpi black with white scales; antennae black and prickled, eyes brown, hairy with black rings white-coloured in front and rear; thorax dorsally metallic green, ventrally black; legs black with white- and or­ange-scaled femurs; abdomen metallic green dorsally and orange ventrally. Dorsal wings (Fig. 1 ): Fore wing with ground colour from base to postmedial areas bright metallic timber green with blue iridescence from a side angle, indiscriminately meeting black marginal border with intercellular distal black dash and black col­oured veins; androconial cluster complex with discocellular scent pad and postmedian scent patch situated at cellular apex and coloured distally black, termi­nally lighter brown; postmedian scent patch situated in cells R5 and Ml pointed terminally and coloured darker brown. Hind wing dorsum similar to fore wing in colour and pattern, but with extended veins 3A and CuA2 resulting black tornai lobe and black filamentous tail; fringes black. Ventral wings (Fig. 2): Fore wing with ground grey brown and red spot at base of costa; veins black, inter- and intracellular areas R2-M3 with black central line originating medially and reach­ing outer margin; anal area lighter. Hind wing similar to fore wing in colour and pattern but with basal red dash in costal cell divided by vein Rl and tornai red dash in cell CuA2 reaching postmedial area; hint of tornai brown submarginal border, tornai lobe distally ash grey, terminally black; tail black, fringes grey brown. Genitalia. Commonplace eumaeine male structure (cf. Eliot 1973, figs 67-68) with thin ventral vinculum, long and thin penis, loose manica, conspicuous tegu­menal ventral process, large dorsal capsule and brush organ; penial dorsal cornutus posteriorly slightly flap-like, expanded with a central notching in dorsal view; penial ventral cornutus with membranous posterior. Measurements (see Robbins 1991: 22, fig. 43): valva length in ventral aspect = 0.16 mm; saccus length = 0.20 mm; internal penis = 0.15 mm; external penis = 0.40 mm; dorsal capsule = 0.05 mm.

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