Eudocima procus

Eudocima procus (Cramer, 1777) (Figs 6: A–B, 18: A, 23: A–D, 30: B, 91: I) This species has a unique hindwing character: the medial patch is expanded into a median band extending across the entire wing from the costa to the inner margin. The band is comprised of four comma-shaped patches fused together. Other Eudocima species have at most two comma-shaped patches fused together. The hindwing marginal band is disjunct from the wing margin except between veins Cu2 and M3. Females without hindwings exposed could be confused with E serpentifera or E. colubra, but E. procus has a contrasting pale triangle on the proximal side of the PM line between veins Cu2 and Cu1, which is absent in the other two species. This species feeds on Odontocarya tamoides (Menispermaceae) in Honduras (Caballero et al. 1994). Eudocima procus is relatively common and widespread from Bolivia and Peru up to Mexico.
Published as part of Borth, Robert J. & Kons, Hugo L., 2022, Mitochondrial genetics of Ophiderini, with a new species from the Eudocima phalonia species group (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Calpinae), pp. 1-151 in Zootaxa 5148 (1) on page 14, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5148.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6605484
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