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

in sclerotized lateral plates separated some 90 degrees and with the lamella postvaginalis bifurcated; Brangas exhibits a membranous ductus bursae reaching the 6th abdominal segment, where it joins the ductus in large parallel lateral plates and shows a lamella postvaginalis with spinate termini. The male genital structures do not differ as drastically, but, along with notable quantitative differences, the most remarkable divergence is that the pair of brush organs is attached to a loose membranous manica in Brangas, whilst the brush organs of Atlides are strongly attached to the dorsal upper part of the vinculum. Therefore, it appears that the separation of these two eumaeine taxa as genera is well based. Generic placement of A. dahnersi - In spite of the fact that, with regard to A. dahnersi, there are certain look-alike species among taxa of Brangas [e.g. B. torfida (Hewitson, 1867) and B. coccineifrons (Godman et Salvin, 1887)], each possessing ventral intercellular vertical lines, we place dahnersi m Atlides on the basis of the following clusters of characters which discriminate Atlides from Brangas. Fore wing length from base to apex more than 20 mm; no Brangas species with male reaching 20 mm in fore wing length is known to us. Fore wing costa slightly convex (in Brangas: straight). These characters are traditionally relied on in separating Brangas from Atlides. Although, overall, there are other large eumeines with fore wing length exceeding 20 mm and the kind of wingshapes that characterize each Atlides and Brangas, it is well known that these others all differ greatly in other respects (for instance in qualitatively distinct structures of the male androconial clusters [for example: Denivia gispa (Hewitson, 1869) or Theritas mavors (Hübner, 1818)], or with the cluster missing [for example: Aveexcrenota anna or Laothus viridicans (Felder et Felder, 1865)]. Fore wing and hind wing base with red spot at costa and discal cell, plus cell 1A+2A with intensive red scaling from base to submedial area. This trait readily identifies all the Atlides species. Despite basal red spotting occurring in other eumaeines, for example in Brangas or Janthecla, these latter otherwise qualitatively differ as evidenced by characters of wingshape, colouration and pattern, as well as the genital configurations. Fore wing male discocellular androconial cluster present (in Brangas: a hardly visible dorsal medial androconial patch is exhibited). The androconial cluster of Atlides is complex. We presume that the discal component (= visual patch sensu Eliot, 1973:495, fig. 122) is ascent pad (cf. Robbins 1991: 12), which is uniformly scaled throughout the genus (Figs 7-11) with exceptions of A. dahnersi, the new species from Ecuador (Fig. 7), A. halesus (Fig. 8) and A. havila (Fig. 9). The scent pad of these species is dorsally composed of two different scales: distally with small, dark brown, relatively unordered scales, terminally with larger, lighter