Burmeia Minet, 2003

Huang, Si-Yao, Wang, Min, Da, Wa & Fan, Xiao-Ling, 2019, New discoveries of the family Epicopeiidae from China, with description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Epicopeiidae), ZooKeys 822, pp. 33-51 : 38

Burmeia Minet, 2003

Burmeia Minet, 2003: 470, type species: Burmeia leesi Minet, 2003.

Diagnosis.

The genus Burmeia is a monotypic genus characterized by the following characters: antennal flagellum of male without scale, hindwing termen obviously angulate between vein M2 and vein M3 and in male genitalia tegumen and vinculum synscleritous. The female genitalia of Burmeia are also diagnostic and they differ from the ground plan of that of Psychostrophia in following aspects (female genitalia of other species in the genus Psychostrophia have been figured by Zhu et al. 2004): antrum membranous, while sclerotized in Psychostrophia ; ductus bursae sclerotized, while membranous in Psychostrophia ; corpus bursae nearly the same size of the 8th abdominal segment, while much larger in Psychostrophia ; corpus bursae with an appendix bursae of similar size, while without an appendix bursae in Psychostrophia . Regarding the characters of female genitalia given above, Burmeia is definitely a distinct genus from Psychostrophia .