Coata facialis Distant, 1906b

Coata facialis Distant 1906b: 31 . (Santa Inéz, Quito, and an undetermined locality in Ecuador)

[ Coata facialis] var. Jacobi 1907a: 25. (Balzapamba, Ecuador) n. syn.

REMARKS.—According to Article 73.2.3, the type locality includes all of the localities of the syntypes (ICZN 1999). Under Article 11.9.1, a valid species name requires at least two letters (ICZN 1999).As a result, the variety proposed by Jacobi (1907a) is not valid and cannot be classified as a subspecies under Article 45.6.3 (ICZN 1999). The proposed variety of Jacobi is considered to be a synonym of Distant’s species as Jacobi (1907a) only distinguished the taxon based on size and color variation in a single specimen.

This is a green species marked with fuscous and black. The species has infuscation on the fore wing apex, extending from proximal radius anterior 2 across the radial crossvein, on the radiomedial crossvein and along the posterior half of the nodal line (illustrated in Jacobi 1907a).

DISTRIBUTION.—The species has been reported only from Ecuador (Metcalf 1963c; Sanborn 2013). The species has been recorded from Balzapamba, Bolívar province, Coca, Orellana province, Santa Inez and Quito, Pichincha province and Macas, Morona Santiago province, and Rio Mangavisa (Distant 1906b; Jacobi 1907a; Goding 1925).