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Chrysaeglia
Butler
Type
species: magnifica Walker, Borneo.
This
genus contains some of the larger species in the blue-black and yellow generic
complex. All species have a straight, transverse blue-black bar medially on the
forewing, and the costa and distal margin are also delineated with blue-black in
all except C. xantha Kishida (Sulawesi).
In
the male genitalia, the uncus is large, robust, usually centrally swollen. The
valves are ovate, with a strong but slender saccular process curving interiorly
around the distal margin of the dorsal part of the valve. The aedeagus vesica is
long, narrow, with single, small but robust cornuti.
The
female has a bursa with a single signum in the globular corpus, and a basal neck
that joins a shorter ductus.
In
addition to the type species and xantha, the
genus is completed by C. perpendicularis Cernư
from the Philippines.
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