Lurama Schaus, 1928

Laurent, Ryan A. St & Kawahara, Akito Y., 2019, Reclassification of the Sack-bearer Moths (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae), ZooKeys 815, pp. 1-114 : 27-28

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.815.27335

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scientific name

Lurama Schaus, 1928
status

 

Lurama Schaus, 1928 View in CoL Figs 27, 63, 133-135

Type species.

Perophora penia Dognin, 1919.

Diagnosis.

Yellow-brown, or in fresh specimens, more golden tan, with distinctly brown antemedial and postmedial lines, and veins accented by the same brown coloration, all of which strongly contrast against the lighter ground color.

Apomorphies.

Combination of the following characters: (1) Rectangular valvae, distally concave along margin (Fig. 27a), (2) Parallel setae-covered lobes projecting from the valva apodeme (Fig. 27b) (considered “transtilla” in St Laurent (2016)); (3) Gnathos absent; (4) Thin, fishhook-shaped phallus (Fig. 27c).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Mimallonidae