gymnelioides Zerny, 1912

(Figs. 10 and 57)

Schasiura gymnelioides Zerny, 1912b: 123 . Holotype male, by monotypy: “SOUTH AMERICA ”; with four handwritten labels: “Heyne amer. merid. 1873”; “ Mann abgeb. 1875”; “? Autochloris sp.”; and “ Schasiura gymnelioides Zerny type ♂”.

Current combination. Schasiura gymnelioides Zerny, 1912 .

Condition of the type. Right forewing damaged. Right antenna and most legs missing.

Remarks. The genus Schasiura Butler, 1877 includes two species, S. gymnelioides and S. mimica Butler, 1877, the type species. There are no obvious characters uniting these two species that are not shared by many others currently classified in various genera (e.g., Osmocneme bracata Draudt, 1917, type species of the monotypic genus Osmocneme Draudt, 1917, and various species of Autochloris Hübner, 1819, Gymnelia Walker, 1854, Dasysphinx Felder, 1874, and Homoeocera Felder, 1874). A re-evaluation of the taxonomic position of S. gymnelioides will require a comprehensive study of these and perhaps other related genera.

Schasiura was used by Hampson (1914) as Hampson’s (1898) concept of Autochloris (Julian P. Donahue, personal communication). Because Autochloris was placed in Euchromiina by Forbes (1939), we kept this subtribal assignment.