Oculicattus, Martinez, 2020

Martinez, Jose I., 2020, Revision of the South American genus Gaujonia Dognin (Noctuidae, Pantheinae) with descriptions of five new genera and twenty-one new species, ZooKeys 985, pp. 71-126 : 71

Oculicattus gen. nov.

Gender.

Masculine.

Type species.

Gaujonia renifera Hampson, 1913. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum 13: 385, 387, pl. 235, fig. 4.

Etymology.

Oculicattus refers to the reniform spot, which is black and surrounded with yellow scales, giving it the appearance of a cat’s eye.

Included species.

Oculicattus is a new genus established for Gaujonia renifera (Hampson), which was misplaced in the genus Gaujonia . This genus also includes six new species, Oculicattus boliviana sp. nov., Oculicattus brehmi sp. nov., Oculicattus inca sp. nov., Oculicattus raizae sp. nov., Oculicattus schmidti sp. nov., and Oculicattus uturunku sp. nov., which are morphologically and genetically distinct from the genus Gaujonia .

Diagnosis.

Oculicattus can be differentiated from Gaujonia externally by the presence of the large reniform spot in Oculicattus , as well as by other features (see Gaujonia diagnosis).

Description.

Sexually dimorphic in size, females larger than males; forewing and hindwing hyaline with sulfur-yellow and black scales covering veins and wing margins. Forewing with a small black or sulfur-yellow orbicular spot, sometimes barely perceptible; reniform spot elongated, outlined in black; elongated black central line surrounded by sulfur-yellow outline, except for O. raizae and O. uturunku , in which the spot is entirely black. Antenna filiform, brownish orange with a sulfur-yellow band on basal to three quarters of antenna; eyes with coppery interfacetal setae. Male genitalia slightly sclerotized; valva with saccular and cucullar regions separated, without clasper; uncus long and narrow ending in beak-like tip; vesica has spine patch; vesica wider than its base, which has two patches of spines with one patch of spines larger than other. Female genitalia medium sized; lightly sclerotized rectangular-shaped sterigma; appendix bursae elongate and rugose; corpus bursae for most species approximately half size of appendix bursae.

Immature stages.

Unknown.

Biology.

Unknown.