Galapagos Species Database

MALE (n=27) (figs 3, 13, 14). Head brown to orange brown on occiput, with three thin longitudinal white lines reaching posterior margin of head: one on each side from antenna along upper side of eye and one medially from about anterior margin of eye; with a few white scales before antenna; vertex and frons with large greyish-brown shining scales. Haustellum and maxillary palpus pale greyish beige. Labial palpus with six thin longitudinal stripes: three white and three brown on segment II, and two of the same colors on segment III. Antenna from apex with two dark-brown flagellomeres, two whit: "€ dark brown, one white, one dark brown, two mostly white with some dark-brown scales, two or three mostly dark brown with white scales, two or three with white first row and dark-brown second row, about 20 with complete dark-brown se. ond row and incomplete white first row, basal three and scape dark brown dorsally with two longitudinal white lines and a larger beige stripe ventrally (Landry, 2001).