The species of Eilema Hübner, [1819] sensu lato present in Europe and North Africa (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini) Author Macià, Ramon 0000-0002-2166-1540 Corresponding author rmaciavila@gmail.com Author Ylla, Josep 0000-0001-7280-9421 Author Gastón, Javier 0000-0003-3382-3874 Author Huertas, Manuel 0000-0002-6758-1984 Apartado de Correos 47, 21080 Huelva, Spain. huertasdionisio @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6758 - 1984 huertasdionisio@gmail.com Author Bau, Josep 0000-0002-9231-2356 Biosciences Department, University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, 08500, Vic, Spain. josep. bau @ uvic. cat; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9231 - 2356 josep.bau@uvic.cat text Zootaxa 2022 2022-10-03 5191 1 1 87 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5191.1.1 journal article 157785 10.11646/zootaxa.5191.1.1 b8beacf0-8401-4c8b-8b7e-8e97dc1a199e 1175-5326 7144073 B66F9DFC-3BF3-42CA-B08F-F983FD615F4E Genus Collita Moore, 1878 . Collita Moore, 1878 . Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1878:3–37, pls. 1–3. Type species: Bombyx griseola Hübner, [1803] ; Sammlung Europäischer Schmetterlinge Bomb.: 126 [`Ziefer´-text]. pl. 23, fig. 97 by original designation. Diagnosis. Imago. Forewings broad, with a convex costal margin; pale costal line often absent. Male genitalia . Uncus of moderate width; valvae with apically contracted costal and saccular processes; a very wide sclerotised saccular part of the valvae clearly angulated or with a process on the ventral margin; outer margin of valvae often serrated; juxta with a long apical process; vinculum long, trapezoid.Aedeagus with an apical sclerotised fascia and short apical spur and numerous cone-shaped cornuti of unequal size; vesica huge, pouchshaped, with irregular lobes and an additional spinal field. Female genitalia. Anal papillae well developed and sclerotised, with small apophysis; ostium bursae wide and sclerotised; ductus broad, short and strongly sclerotised; corpus bursa spherical, with two ovoid-shaped signa. Membranous wart filled with a multitude of micro-spines in the upper part of the ductus. Thick membranous process of great length (as much as the bursa) in the area of contact of the ductus bursa with the corpus bursa, where the ductus seminalis originates. Molecular data. A single species of this genus ( Collita griseola ) has been analysed, so we cannot be certain if the results presented for this species would also apply to the whole genus. According to Dubatolov (2011) , there are many more species included in Collita , for example, Collita chinensis (Daniel, 1954) ; Collita coreana (Leech, 1888) ; Collita digna ( Ignatyev& Witt, 2007 ) ; Collita gina (Okano, [1955]) , Collita okanoi (Inoue, 1961) and Collita vetusta (Walker, 1854) . None of them has been available to the authors and so it has not been possible to include their study in the present work. Future molecular studies including species placed in the genus Collita will provide additional insight into this genus. Taxa included. Collita griseola (Hübner, [1803])