Reclassification of the Sack-bearer Moths (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae)
Author
Laurent, Ryan A. St
Author
Kawahara, Akito Y.
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ZooKeys
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.815.27335
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.815.27335
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Eadmuna Schaus, 1928
Figs 8, 45, 85, 86
Type
species.
Cicinnus esperans
Schaus, 1905.
Diagnosis.
Combination of the following characters: silvery-gray or brown ground color, forewing with hyaline or sub-hyaline patch bisected by the M2 vein; dorsal postmedial line incomplete, formed by brown crescents between veins; the presence of smooth wing margins without a sharply falcate forewing apex.
Apomorphies.
Combination of the following characters: (1) Uncus clearly differentiated from tegumen as separate smaller structure (Fig. 8a) compared to single elongate triangular uncus + tegumen with little differentiation between these parts; (2) Triangular transtilla or valva apodeme (of uncertain homology) extensions finely wrinkled along their length (Fig. 8b); (3) Vesica with distinct cornutus (which itself may be formed by many cornuti fused into one) or scobinate patch (Fig. 8c).
Remarks.
St Laurent et al. (2018a)
did not include this genus in their phylogeny and instead placed this genus in
Mimalloninae
based on morphology, due to clear similarities to the genus
Macessoga
, a genus that was included. Our ongoing molecular work, which includes broadened taxon coverage of
Mimallonidae
, including
Eadmuna
, fully supports this placement (St Laurent et al. in prep.). Additionally, all of our morphological phylogenetic results consistently place
Eadmuna
as sister to
Macessoga
(Fig. 1, see also Suppl. materials 5-7), therefore confirming the placement of this genus in
Mimalloninae
.