Cabardites Volynkin & Černý, 2021

Zhao, Ting-Ting, Wu, Jun & Han, Hui-Lin, 2023, Two new species and a new record of the genus Cabardites Volynkin & Černý (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae) from China, Zootaxa 5339 (4), pp. 369-376 : 370

Genus Cabardites Volynkin & Černý, 2021

Cabardites Volynkin & Černý, 2021 , Zootaxa 4915(4): 530.

Type species: Asura limbata Wileman, 1911 .

The members of the genus are small-sized moths; among them, the female adult is slightly larger than the male adult. The head is white or pale brown; the antenna is filiform, pale brown. The thorax, patagium, and tegula are off-white to brown. The forewing has a large brown area; the basal line, subbasal line, and antemedial line are milky white; the outer margin region is milky white, with two or three brown patches.

The male genitalia of the genus are characterized as follows: the valva is symmetrical with a medial costal process and trifurcated apically; the uncus is slender; the tegumen is slightly narrow and triangular; the aedeagus is weakly curved; the vesica has a clump of cornuti or a small band of spinules. The female genitalia have the following characteristics: the papilla analis is wide; the ductus bursae is sclerotized and stubby; the corpus bursae is covered with large areas of small spines or flecks.