Tribe Eudulini Warren, 1897

(Figs 46, 47)

The tribe was distinguished from Stamnodini, by a single large accessory cell in forewing. A typical Eudule Hübner has thin scaling, rounded forewing, small hind wing and the abdomen extending well beyond hind wings.

Forbes (1948) characterized the tribe by: chaetosemata as a wide raised band right across the back of the head; frons rounded out and roughly scaled; eyes small and sclerite of gena broad, scaled; wings bluntly rounded, very thinly covered with scales and hairs;

Other diagnostic characters include: male genitalia characterized by the modified, large fork- or T-shaped sternite A8 (Figs 46, 47); the absence of coremata. Forewing with one accessory cell, R1 and R2 arising stalked, R2 anastomosing with R3-R5. Valve costa with a long, jointed hook-like appendage.

Hind wing with discal vein DC straight, Rs and M1 stalked, The genus Eudulophasia Warren (Fig. 47) is similar to Eudule, differing in the costal part of the discal cell in hind wing markedly short.

Distribution: Neotropical, Nearctic.