Amastus medica Dognin 1891

Amastus medica (Dognin)

Phaegoptera medica Dognin, 1891b, p. 242.

Amastus medica (Dognin) Hampson, 1901a, p. 138.

Forewing 36.0 mm. Head dark greyish brown, with greyish red posterior band. Tegulae golden yellow dorsally, greyish brown laterally. Patagia golden yellow. Rest of thorax greyish red. Forewing greyish brown, with indistinct dark greyish brown and light brown fasciae. Dorsal surface of abdomen greyish red anteriorly and at posterior margin of segments 5 and 6; rest of dorsal surface dark greyish brown. Abdomen dark greyish brown ventrally.

Described from a single female from near Loja [Ecuador].

Holotype ♀: “Environs de Loja, Equateur, 1890; Type No. 30395 U.S.N.M.; Dognin Collection; Lophocampa medica Dgn ♀ type; type figuré 1894; Holotype ♀ Lophocampa medica Dognin A.W. 1967; Arctiidae genitalia slide No. AW543.”