Daedalma boliviana Staudinger

Pyrcz, Tomasz W., Greeney, Harold F., Willmott, Keith R. & Wojtusiak, Janusz, 2011, 2898, Zootaxa 2898, pp. 1-68 : 15

Daedalma boliviana Staudinger

[ Daedalma dinias Hewitson ; Staudinger, 1888: 234].

Daedalma dinias Hewitson var. boliviana Staudinger, 1897: 139 .

Daedalma boliviana Hewitson ; Pyrcz, 2004: 509.

Remarks: This species comprises two subspecies widely distributed along the eastern slopes of the Andes in Bolivia and Peru, and on both slopes in southern Ecuador. It has long been considered as the southern subspecies of D. dinias (see above). The two can be recognised immediately by the position of the FW orange patch, which in D. boliviana extends widely into the postdiscal area (base of cells M3-M1), but is confined to the discal area in D. dinias . D. boliviana is parapatric at higher elevations, or locally sympatric with D. fraudata in northern Peru and south-eastern Ecuador. The two species differ in the shape and colour of the FW patch, which in D. fraudata is darker and more elongate dorsally with variable brownish scaling around the veins on the ventral surface, compared to D. boliviana , in which it is rhomboid and bright orange dorsally and much "cleaner" on the ventral surface.