Stragulodonta stragula ( Möschler, 1883 ) Becker, 2021

Becker, Vitor Osmar, 2021, A review of the Neotropical moth genus Bardaxima (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae: Nystaleinae), with special reference to the species occurring in Brazil, Zoologia (e 63526) 38, pp. 1-14 : 12

Stragulodonta stragula ( Möschler, 1883) comb. nov.

Figs 26–28, 69–71

Heterocampa stragula Möschler, 1883: 342 . Holotype male, SURINAM: Paramaribo (MfN) [image examined].

Bardaxima belua Draudt, 1932: 915 . Syntypes: 1 male, 2 females, PERU: [Pasco], Pachitea; BRAZIL: [PA], Santarém (MfN) [image examined]. Syn. nov.

Diagnosis. Male ( Figs 26, 28) FW length 18–22 mm (42–50 mm wingspan), female ( Fig. 27) FW length 30–32 mm (68–72 mm wingspan). Head, patagia and proximal half of thorax dorsally dark fuscous, caudal half and tegulae pale yellow. FW dorsally olivaceous; black lunule at end of cell, followed by a round, pale blotch; postmedial band double, followed by dark area with distal edge sinuous. HW dark fuscous, cilia pale. Abdomen dorsally dark fuscous, with a pale band from 2 nd segment to tip. Male genitalia ( Fig. 69): uncus long, expanded to a nearly round head. Socii large, arms flat laterally, strongly curved at base; twice as long as wide. Valva with costa broadly expanded at base, with short, digital process dorsad; sacculus thin, as long as valva; a narrow bridge connecting costa to sacculus, next to apical margin. Aedoeagus ( Fig. 70) short, thick, with a short blunt process laterally.

Material studied. Three males (g.s. 5617), 2 females ( VOB) .

Distribution. Surinam, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil, in the Amazonian lowlands.

Remarks. Draudt presumably was misled by the larger size of the females when he described B. belua .