Amauta , Oiticica 1955
Creators: name: Worthy, Robert
name: González, Jorge M.
name: Zilli, Alberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Castniidae
Amauta

description: Identification key to Amauta, Vadina and Divana species/subspecies:
1 No purple flush or orange border on hindwing.............................................................. 2
- Hindwing flushed purple with orange border................................................................ 8
2 No postmedian line on forewing......................................................................... 3
- Postmedian line on forewing............................................................................ 4
3 Large white spot at anal angle of hindwing............................................... male V. hodeei kruegeri
- Small white spot at anal angle of hindwing................................................ male V. hodeei hodeei
4 Hindwing postmedian band white........................................................................ 5
- Hindwing postmedian band orange....................................................................... 6
- Hindwing postmedian band yellow............................................................... A. angusta
- Hindwing postmedian band blue......................................................................... 7
5 Postmedian bands on all four wings very narrow........................................ female V. hodeei kruegeri
- Postmedian bands on all four wings wider................................................ female V. hodeei hodeei
6 Forewing discal spot outlined in white; five extradiscal orange spots on hindwing........................... A. cacica
- Forewing discal spot not outlined in white; four or rarely five extradiscal orange spots on hindwing............ A. procera
7 Forewing postmedian line very narrow; hindwing postmedian band wide................... A. papilionaris papilionaris
- Forewing postmedian line wider; hindwing postmedian band narrower............... A. papilionaris amethystina /lionela
8 Forewing predominantly dark brown...................................................................... 9
- Forewing brown with wide pale diagonal band through discal area............................................. 10
9 Orange border on hindwing consistently wide, reaching tornus.................................. male D. diva hoppi
- Orange border on hindwing tapering, not reaching tornus........................................ male D. diva diva
10 Orange border on hindwing unbroken......................................................... D. diva tricolor
- Orange border on hindwing broken by black veins.......................................................... 11
11 Orange border on hindwing broken by black veins, forewing apex quite rounded.................... female D. diva diva
- Orange border on hindwing little more than orange spots, forewing apex distinctly hooked........... female D. diva hoppi
description: Published as part of Worthy, Robert, González, Jorge M. & Zilli, Alberto, 2022, A review of the genera Amauta Houlbert, 1918 and Divana J. Y. Miller, 1982 (Lepidoptera: Castniidae) with description of a new genus, pp. 301-342 in Zootaxa 5194 (3) on page 312, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5194.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7154442