1. Live pictures

1.1. Imago

2. Diagnosis

1-6: two ♂♂, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

1-3: ♀, data see label (coll. & photos: Egbert Friedrich)

2.1. Original description

1: Walker (1866: 1610) [from copyright-free scan at www.biodiversitylibrary.org]

3. Further information

3.1. Other combinations

• Eucrostis [sic] pyrrhogona Walker, 1866 [original combination]

3.2. Synonyms

• Iodis[sic] marginata Lucas, 1888 [synonym according to funet.fi]
• Comostola viridescens (Prout, 1934) [synonym according to funet.fi]

3.3. Subspecies

• Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona augustata Prout, 1917 [subspecies according to funet.fi]
• Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona succornuta Prout, 1937 [subspecies according to funet.fi]
• Pyrrhorachis pyrrhogona subcrenulata Holloway, 1977 [subspecies according to funet.fi]

3.4. Taxonomy

We accept Pyrrhorachis cornuta at species range.

(Author: Erwin Rennwal)

3.5. Literature

• Original description: Walker, F. (1866): List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 35 (= Supplement 5): 1535-2040. London.