Nepita Moore, [1860]
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Nepita Moore, [1860] |
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Genus Nepita Moore, [1860] View in CoL
( Figs 41, 42 View Figures 31–46 , 125 View Figures 124–127 , 181 View Figures 174–181 )
Nepita Moore , in Horsfield & Moore, [1860], A catalogue of the lepidopterous insects in the Museum of Natural History at the East-India House 2: 302, a replacement name for Pitane Walker, 1854 .
= Pitane Walker, 1854 , List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum 2: 531 (Type species: Pitane conferta Walker, 1854 , by subsequent designation by Hampson (1900)), nec. Walker, 1854 ( Arctiini ).
Diagnosis. Medium-sized moths; male antennae strongly bipectinate, female antennae serrate; wing pattern is similar to that of some Cyme and Ammatho . In the male genitalia, the tegumen is broad; the juxta with a deep medial basal concavity; the valva is short and medially broadened, nearly elliptical. The combination of such features as the presence of a robust, thorn-shaped medial costal process and the absence of distal costal and saccular processes and distal membranous lobe of valva is characteristic for the genus. Aedeagus is large, and the vesica structure is similar to that of Barsine and Ammatho s. str. In the female genitalia, the large and heavily sclerotised antrum and the short membranous anterior section of corpus bursae are similar to those of Ammatho s. str., but the corpus and appendix bursae are completely membranous, only an elliptical signum bursae is present.
Distribution. Sri Lanka and India.
Number of species. The genus is monobasic.
Genus Esmasura Volynkin & Huang, gen. nov. https://zoobank.org/ urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:89360C04-B569-4C9F-95E9-04AF1FC68B1E ( Figs 43, 44 View Figures 31–46 , 126 View Figures 124–127 , 182 View Figures 182–189 )
Type species: Miltochrista esmia Swinhoe, 1893 .
Etymology. The genus name is a combination of its type species’ name esmia and the generic name Asura . Gender feminine.
Diagnosis. Medium-sized moths with pale red body and wing colouration and pattern consisting of blackish suffusion along veins only. Antennae of both sexes ciliate. In the male genitalia, the valva lacks distal costal and saccular processes, like in Nepita , but the medial costal process is small, tubercle-like and setose as well as the area around it (an autapomorphic feature; similar tubercle-like process is known in Barsochrista only, but in the latter that is heavily sclerotised and not setose). In addition, in Esmasura the sacculus is broader and reaching the valva apex, where it connects with costa, whereas in Nepita the sacculus is narrower and shorter, not reaching the valva apex. Aedeagus is elongated and narrow, nearly straight; vesica is short, nearly elliptical, with two clusters of numerous various sized small and very small thorn-like cornuti. In the female genitalia, the ductus bursae is subdivided into the heavily sclerotised trapezoidal antrum and the moderately sclerotised anterior section. The anterior section of corpus bursae is elliptical, membranous, with a weakly dentate signum medially. The posterior section of corpus bursae is narrow, moderately sclerotised and weakly rugose. The appendix bursae originates from the posterior section of corpus bursae and is evenly moderately sclerotised and weakly rugose also. Such an appendix bursae structure is unique among the generic complex.
Distribution. Northern Myanmar, China and northern Vietnam.
Number of species. The genus is monobasic.
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