Review of the Acontia areli group with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Acontiinae) Author Ferris, Clifford , Laramie, United States of America Author Lafontaine, Donald urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author: Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes, Biodiversity Program, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, KW Neatby Bldg., C. E. F., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K text ZooKeys 2009 2009-05-12 9 9 27 46 journal article 10.3897/zookeys.9.180 0e26fd95-f93b-4045-b176-7208b23376aa 1313–2970 576450 B6371F8A-0C34-414B-94F3-F053781194A2 Acontia areletta Dyar Figs. 16 , 22 Acontia areletta Dyar, 1907: 229 . Type material. Holotype ♁: Mexico , Mexico City [ USNM , Washington, DC ]. Other material examined. 1 ♁, Mexico , Federal District, San Jacinto. Diagnosis . Acontia areletta resembles A . areloides , from which it can be separated by its white hindwing, lacking the fuscous band around the margin as found in A . areloides . Description . As for male of A . areloides excepting the dorsal hindwing, which in A. areletta is pure white, without a fuscous marginal band. Th e female is unknown. Male genitalia ( Fig. 22 ; 2 dissections) – uncus : decurved, very long and narrow with very slightly expanded rounded apex. Manica (memranous tube posterior to juxta) with Figure 28. Acontia areli distribution map. Figures 29-30. Acontia distribution maps. 29 A . areloides . 30 A . albifusa . stout spine-like field of sclerites (attached to outer edge of aedeagus in Fig. 22 ). Valves : asymmetrical; right valve broad, approximately rectangular, with blunt process near middle of dorsal margin, apex pointed dorsally, without apical corona; sacculus without posterior extension; clasper swollen basally on dorsal margin, then tapering evenly to spine-like apex extending slightly beyond ventral margin of valve; left valve similar to right, but sacculus smaller and clasper much shorter. Aedeagus : similar to that of A . areloides ; everted vesica similar to that of A . areloides , but with two small additional subbasal diverticula. Female genitalia – unknown. Biology . Unknown. Adults from late October to November.