Oenides Mabille 1904
Creators: name: Suênia-Bastos, Ayane
name: Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik
name: Casagrande, Mirna Martins
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Hesperiidae
Oenides

description: Oenides Mabille, 1904
(Figs 1–5)
Oenides Mabille, 1904, in Wytsman. Gen. Ins. 17, p. 178; type species - only included species: Oenides vulpina Felder — Draudt, 1924, in Seitz. Gross-Schmett. Erde 5, p. 992—Lindsey, 1925. Ann. Ent. Soc. Amer. 18: 94—Hayward, 1934. Rev. Soc. ent. arg. 6: 101— Williams & Hayward, 1944. Acta zool. Lill. 2: 223—Hayward, 1947. Acta zool. Lill. 4: 367—Hemming, 1967. Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Ent., Suppl. 9: 320—Lamas, 1969. Biota 7: 39—Beattie, 1976. Rhop. Direct., p. 43—Bridges, 1988. Cat. Fam.-Group & Gen.-Group Nam., 2 nd ed., 4, p. 91— Cong et al., 2019. Insecta Mundi 731: 40.
Type species. Hesperia vulpina C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867, designated by Mabille (1904) in Wytsman.
Diagnosis. Oenides is distinguished from the other Pericharina (Pericharini) genera by the combination of the following characters: FW with three separated apical hyaline spots in R 3 –M 1; FW male with white hyaline spots; HW with m-cu forming a right angle with CuA 1 (Fig. 2b). Male genitalia (Fig. 3) with the uncus bilobed, projected ventrally, with bifid tips; coecum of aedeagus slightly curved dorsally.
Redescription. Head: antenna ventrally yellow; nudum, 12–13 segments. Eyelash present. Eye, brown in some pinned specimens, but red when alive (Vélez-Estrada and Ríos-Málaver 2018).
Thorax: mesotibia and metatibia spined. FW with stigma grey and continuous between CuA 1 and 2A (Fig. 2a); recurring vein M; dcs present; distance between the origins of CuA 1 –CuA 2 wider than the origins of M 3 –CuA 1. HW with m-cu forming a right angle with CuA 1 (Fig. 2b).
Abdomen: male genitalia (Fig. 3) with tegumen longer than uncus; anterior projection of saccus shorter than uncus, ventrally rectangular in shape; lower portion of dorsal arm of saccus + ventral arm of tegumen straight; uncus bilobed, projected ventrally, with bifid tips; gnathos broader than uncus; valva with costa slightly convex; sacculus with setae; harpe with strong sclerotization, spined dorso-distally; fultura inferior with two tiny lateral projections; aedeagus longer than valva; coecum slightly curved dorsally. Female genitalia (Fig. 4) with lamella antevaginalis, arched laterally with dorsal projection triangle shaped dilated; ventrally in U-shaped, with a small median projection not covering the opening to the ostium bursae; lamella postvaginalis, laterally, with plates in triangle-shaped slightly convex distally; papilla analis almost rectangular; corpus bursae with no distinction between corpus and ductus.
Species included. Oenides vulpina (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867).
Etymology. Not informed by the author.
description: Published as part of Suênia-Bastos, Ayane, Mielke, Olaf Hermann Hendrik & Casagrande, Mirna Martins, 2025, Redescription of Oenides Mabille, 1904 (Hesperiinae: Pericharini: Pericharina), pp. 595-600 in Zootaxa 5575 (4) on pages 595-597, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5575.4.10, http://zenodo.org/record/14762666