Druentica Strand, 1932

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Druentica Strand, 1932 Figs 22, 58, 121, 122

Type species.

Cicinnus partha Schaus, 1905.

Diagnosis.

Most Druentica are silvery gray medium sized mimallonids with a distinct, usually straight postmedial line, and a preapical black dot along the costa where the postmedial line angles towards the costa, meeting it. Most species have straight forewing edges, but a few (such as D. rotundula (Dognin), D. muta (Dognin), D. mutara (Schaus), and D. brosica (Schaus)) have crenulated wing margins not unlike some Lacosoma and Mimallo , hence erroneous placement of several species of Druentica in these unrelated genera. Druentica is another of the larger mimallonid genera, and thus there is more interspecific variation in this genus than in other genera previously treated above. However, male genitalia of Druentica are immediately recognizable as such.

Apomorphies.

Combination of the following characters: (1) Slightly curved tusk-like arms extending from valva base (Fig. 22a); (2) Paired, mesally separated, elongated gnathos arms with distal flattening extend from immediately below uncus, gnathos arms roughly equal to length of uncus (Fig. 22b).