Revision Of The Genus Lophoterges Hampson, 1906 (S. L.) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Cuculliinae). Part Ii. The Genus Lophoterges S. Str.
Author
Ronkay, L.
text
Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
2005
51
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.12586551
2064-2474
12586551
Subgenus
Tibeterges
subgen. n.
Type
species:
Lophoterges hoenei
DRAUDT
, 1950
,
Mitteilungen der Münchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft
40
: 56; pl. 4, fig. 10.
Diagnosis. External morphology (
Fig. 30
). Large, relatively robust species with broad, rather acutely pointed fore wings. The maculation is typical of the genus with entirely white-filled stigmata and reduced crosslines. The cartilagineous pleural patches of the female abdomen are almost fully reduced.
Female genitalia (
Fig. 68
). Ovipositor without lunulate intersegmental cartilagineous plates; ostium bursae broadly but conspicuously shortly calyculate with rather V-shaped dorsal and ventral sclerotised laminae; ductus bursae mainly membranous, with elongate sclerotised dorsal patch only; cervix bursae short, subconical, without sclerotised part; corpus bursae elliptical-ovoid; signum absent.
The subgenus
Tibeterges
is rather remote from the other subgenera of
Lophoterges
, representing a specially evolved descendant of the archetype with numerous autapomorphies (see above).