Yagra, OITICICA, 1955

Moraes, Simeão De Souza & Duarte, Marcelo, 2014, Phylogeny of Neotropical Castniinae (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea: Castniidae): testing the hypothesis of the mimics as a monophyletic group and implications for the arrangement of the genera, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170 (2), pp. 362-399 : 394-395

YAGRA OITICICA, 1955 ( FIG. 30)

Type species

Castnia dalmannii Gray, 1838

Included species

Yagra fonscolombe (Godart, [1824]) and Yagra dalmannii ( Gray, 1838) .

Comments

This group was the subject of a recent revisionary study ( Moraes et al., 2011), which showed that the species have distinctive characters that corroborate the genus status: (i) discal band extending to M 2 (19: 2); (ii) subterminal part of aedeagus wall with spines implanted on a sclerotized plate (35: 1); (iii) valva with a tooth-like corona near the posterior margin (57: 1); and (iv) eighth tergite in females with the lateral margin sinuous (109: 3).

The following genera were not included in this analysis because of a lack of material, and for this reason we maintained the species in the nominative genus, with no taxonomic modification.

Insigniocastnia Miller, 2007

Included species: Insigniocastnia taisae Miller, 2007 . Mirocastnia Miller, 1980

Included species: Mirocastnia canis ( Lathy, 1923) , Mirocastnia pyrrhopygoides ( Houlbert, 1917) , and Mirocastnia smalli Miller, 1980 .