Cropia connecta - Hodges#9622

Smith original description as Chytonix connecta can be viewed online from the print references. Schaus original description as Eudipna templada : Antennte serrate and ciliate. Primaries brown-grey, finely irrorated over a lighter ground, which appears irregularly. Lines single, finely waved, black, pale edged without, the black part obsolete below submedian vein; claviform orbicular and reniform concolorous, narrowly dark outlined, the reniform with small white specks without; subterminal line irregular, wavy, broken, narrowly pale, inclining to be divided into spots; a diffuse white subapical shade; a black patch below it between veins 4 and 5; a terminal black line and venular white points. Secondaries blackish brown with white specks before the margin mesially; fringe apically pale, spotted with brown mesially; a terminal broken black line. Below light brownish, brown irrorate; two common dark brown mesial lines inclosing the discal dots, those of fore wings marked with black on costa and with four costo-apical white dots, of hind wing, widely excurved mesially, the outer produced crenulate between the veins. Lafontaine & Schmidt determined that Cropia templada is a form of C. connecta .

Smith (1894) original description as Chytonix connecta can be viewed online from the print references. Schaus (1906) original description as Eudipna templada : Antennte serrate and ciliate. Primaries brown-grey, finely irrorated over a lighter ground, which appears irregularly. Lines single, finely waved, black, pale edged without, the black part obsolete below submedian vein; claviform orbicular and reniform concolorous, narrowly dark outlined, the reniform with small white specks without; subterminal line irregular, wavy, broken, narrowly pale, inclining to be divided into spots; a diffuse white subapical shade; a black patch below it between veins 4 and 5; a terminal black line and venular white points. Secondaries blackish brown with white specks before the margin mesially; fringe apically pale, spotted with brown mesially; a terminal broken black line. Below light brownish, brown irrorate; two common dark brown mesial lines inclosing the discal dots, those of fore wings marked with black on costa and with four costo-apical white dots, of hind wing, widely excurved mesially, the outer produced crenulate between the veins.