Idalus Walker, 1855

Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), Zoosystema 36 (2), pp. 137-533 : 153

Genus Idalus Walker, 1855

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Idalus Walker, 1855a: 645 .

Empusa Hübner, [1819] b: 170. Junior homonym of Empusa Illiger, 1798 (Mantodea) . — Type species: Phalaena admirabilis Cramer, [1777] .

TYPE SPECIES. — Phalaena admirabilis Cramer, [1777] , by monotypy.

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FIG. 1. — A-H, dorsal views. A, Parathyris cedonulli (Stoll, [1781]), Ecuador, Pangayacu (coll. B. V.); B, Gonotrephes friga (Druce, 1906), syntype male, Peru, Quinton (MNHN); C, Zaevius calocore Dyar, 1910, French Guiana (coll. B. V.); D, Robinsonia formula Grote, [1866], Cuba, Mayary (coll. T. W.); E, Ischnognatha semiopalina Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874, syntype female, [French Guiana], (BMNH); F, Neidalia villacresi (Dognin, 1894), Peru, Road Olmos - Tarapoto (MNHN); G, Idalus admirabilis (Cramer, [1777]), French Guiana (coll. M. L.); H, Arctiarpia melanopasta melanopasta (Dognin, 1907), holotype male, French Guiana, Saint Laurent du Maroni (USNM). Scale bars: 0.5 cm.