A new species of Archithosia Birket-Smith, 1965 in the subgenus Eurythosia Krüger, 2015 from Uganda (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini)
Author
Durante, Antonio
Museo di Storia naturale del Salento. S. P. Calimera-Borgagne, Km 1, 73021 Calimera, Italy
Author
Potenza, Luigi
Museo di Storia naturale del Salento. S. P. Calimera-Borgagne, Km 1, 73021 Calimera, Italy
Author
Pellegrino, Gabriele
Museo di Storia naturale del Salento. S. P. Calimera-Borgagne, Km 1, 73021 Calimera, Italy
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Zootaxa
2024
2024-08-06
5492
3
356
368
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5492.3.4
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5492.3.4
1175-5326
13234883
54F5ECF4-C148-4AB3-9F2C-F3B066B55825
Key to the species of the subgenus
Eurythosia
(based on male genitalia)
The following keys do not include
Archithosia jaundeana
, as the
holotype
lacks the abdomen and its genitalia are unknown; see also the Discussion. Characters in the key are shown by arrows in
Table 1.
1 Ala valvae with saccular distal process bent inwards and well developed.........................................
2
- Ala valvae with saccular distal process absent or barely visible.........................................
A. derelicta
2 Ala valvae with a strong median process bent inwards..............................................
A. kinuthiae
- Ala valvae without such a process........................................................................
3
3 Supravalva with a strong medially arising costal process...........................................
A. angulifascia
- Supravalva without such a process........................................................................
4
4 Distal process of the ala valvae as long as 1/3 of the entire ala valvae.................................
A. makomensis
- Distal process of the ala valvae as long as 1/4 of the entire ala valvae...............................
A. henricus
n. sp.