A revision of the genus Lophomilia Warren, 1913 with description of four new species from East Asia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Hypeninae) Author Kononenko, Vladimir Author Behounek, Gottfried text Zootaxa 2009 1989 1 22 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.274658 46304791-8416-4224-84fc-5dbf54df8a87 1175-5326 274658 Genus Lophomilia Warren, 1913 LOPHOMILIA Warren, 1913 , in Seitz, Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 3: 411. Type-species: Egnasia polybapta Butler, 1879 by original designation. = ATUNTSEA Berio, 1977 , Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 81: 237 [ 25 February 1977 ]. Type-species: Atuntsea hoenei Berio, 1977 , by original designation. =BRYOPGRAPTA Sugi, 1977 , Ty ō to Ga , 28: 39 [ 1 March 1977 ]. Type-species: Bryograpta kogii Sugi, 1977 , by original designation. Sugi 1992 : 381 (synonymy of Bryograpta with Atuntsea ); Speidel, 1993 : 10 (synonymy of Bryograpta with Atuntsea ); Kononenko & Han 2007 : 37 (synonymy of Atuntsea with Lophomilia ). Diagnosis. Moths in the genus Lophomilia are small to medium sized noctuids (wingspan 26–32 mm ) with slender body, quadrifid venation and relatively narrow forewings. The genus includes 13 species, distributed exclusively in East Asia , predominantly in Manchurian and Sino-Himalayan subregions of the Palaearctic and the Oriental region. Larvae that are known feed on woody plants, particularly Quercus and Castanea . Characters defining Lophomilia in the male genitalia are the structure the of uncus (which is relatively short, sickle-like and slightly hooked on the top similar to Hypena ), the structure of the valv (which often has the costa separated from the membranous valva), a longitudinal directed clasper-harpe complex, and a small sacculus and a sclerotized saccular extension. The female genitalia include a broad ovipositor, short, flattened and sclerotised ductus bursae, and short and rather stout corpus bursae. The genus can be subdivided further into eight species-groups by the degree of the expression of these characters. The genus Lophomilia is closely allied to the East Asian genera Hepatica Staudinger, 1892 [Type-species: Hepatica anceps Staudinger, 1892 ( Figs. 24 , 39 )] and Coarica Moore, 1882 [Type-species: Coarica fasciata Moore, 1882 ] and may prove to be congeneric with them. In addition to Lophomilia , Hepatica , and Coarica , the genera Paragabara Hampson, 1926 , Gonepatica Sugi, 1982 , Stenbergmania . Bryk, 1949, and Mecistoptera Hampson, 1893 are only uncertainly placeable at present. Kononenko (2005) provisionally placed Lophomilia with a group of unassociated genera in the subfamily Eublemminae ( sensu lato ), though there are some features (long, flattened labial palpi and details of genitalia) which do not associate it with current concepts of Eublemminae. Following Holloway (2005 , 2008 ), who placed Hepatica and Mecistoptera into Hypeninae , we transfer the genus Lophomilia to the subfamily Hypeninae . Further examination of tropical genera and analysis of tribal affinities in the subfamily Hypeninae is needed to resolve the systematic position of Lophomilia .