Muscula Koçak, 1991

Macià, Ramon, Ylla, Josep, Gastón, Javier, Huertas, Manuel & Bau, Josep, 2022, The species of Eilema Hübner, [1819] sensu lato present in Europe and North Africa (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), Zootaxa 5191 (1), pp. 1-87 : 39

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5191.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B66F9DFC-3BF3-42CA-B08F-F983FD615F4E

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7144215

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039487AC-FFFD-BA54-FF11-E3545345F933

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scientific name

Muscula Koçak, 1991
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Genus Muscula Koçak, 1991 View in CoL stat. rev.

Muscula Koçak, 1991 View in CoL Priamus 5 (4): 126.

Type species: Lithosia muscula Staudinger, 1899 . Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 12: 156, by original designation.

Diagnosis.

Imago. Forewings wide, with convex costal margin; pale subcostal line absent. Generally small size.

Male genitalia. Uncus very long, slender, cylindrical and curved; valvae triangular fully sclerotised, with strongly developed saccular field; cucullus lobe reduced to a hook-like basal appendage; clasper absent; juxta Vshaped enlarged, bifid with two sclerotised arms; vinculum medially membranous with sclerotised lateral arms. Aedeagus short, without cornuti and without sclerotised fascia and apical spur.

Female genitalia. Lamella postvaginalis heart-shaped strongly sclerotised; ductus bursae short and membranous. These characteristics are unique within the European species of Eilema sensu lato.

Molecular data. A single species of this genus ( Muscula muscula ) has been analysed. It has not been possible the study of Muscula brevifurca (Wiltshire, 1957) .

Taxa included.

Muscula muscula ( Staudinger, 1899)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

Loc

Muscula Koçak, 1991

Macià, Ramon, Ylla, Josep, Gastón, Javier, Huertas, Manuel & Bau, Josep 2022
2022
Loc

Muscula Koçak, 1991

Kocak 1991
1991
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