| Amerila rufifemur (Walker) |
| Description Female. Fw length 21 mm; fw creamy white to ivory-coloured, overall weakly scaled and almost transparent, except for the costal and hind margin; fw veins very narrowly lined with scales, slightly broader along discal vein; hw white, overall weakly scaled. Head, thorax, and base of abdomen dorsally ivory; tegulae without any black spots; legs overall ivory coloured, except for the inner sides of the fore legs which are pinkish red. Abdomen dorsally and ventrally yellowish ivory. Male. Unknown. |
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| Female genitalia |
| Bursa copulatrix small, corpus bursae with several small signa along a straight line, and one larger spine-bearing signa. |
| Distribution Central Africa; Angola and Zaire. |
| Comments So far only known from two female specimens. This species is similar to A. lupia, which has a dorsally red coloured abdomen and shows some differences in the arrangement of the signa of the bursa copulatrix. |
| Material Canopus rufifemur Walker, 1855: 747. Holotype female (examined): Congo, A.Curror, 45-56 / 2. Canopus Rufifemur. / Type / Arctiidae genitalia slide No. 3528 [BMNH; abdomen dissected]. Type locality: ZAIRE. Additional material examined. ANGOLA: Benguella, 1.vi.1899 (1 female, BMNH). |
