Character Details

Character

Fore wing color

Description

None provided.

States

0: Uniformly colored
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notes: Wing is uniformly pale: hyaline or variously yellow. Specimens which may be slightly darker along the anterior 0.1 to 0.2 of the wing fall under this coding.
coded examples: Metopius (Cultrarius) birkmani, Metopius (Cultrarius) comptus, Metopius (Cultrarius) consector, Metopius (Cultrarius) pectoralis, Metopius (Cultrarius) scapulatus (toggle remainder)
1: Bicolored
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notes: The anterior 1/3 of the wing is a dark brown color, the posterior half of the wing is a pale yellow color. Darkened anterior 1/3 goes from the base of the wing to the tip.
coded examples: Metopius (Ethimetopius) polyptichi, Metopius (Cultrarius) rileyi, Metopius (Cultrarius) rufipes, Metopius (Cultrarius) secundus, Metopius (Metopius) krombeini (toggle remainder)
2: Darkening distally
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notes: Dark yellow to dark brown coloration is restricted to the marginal cell, and the apex of the wing; cells basal to stigma never darkened.
coded examples: Metopius (Ceratopius) fuscipennis, Metopius (Peltales) notatus, Metopius (Peltales) errantius, Metopius (Metopius) vittatus, Metopius (Ceratopius) dissectorius (toggle remainder)
3: Patterned
notes: Color patterns more blotchy, not as in 1 and 2.
coded examples: Metopius (Metopius) galbaneus