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species:
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, by present designation.
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<emphasis id="B972EACBFFC1125562DAB948FEF7FCA9" bold="true" box="[199,328,799,825]" pageId="1" pageNumber="440">Etymology</emphasis>
. The name refers to Africa and the ancient Greek “ανΘΡενε” (Anthrene) = wasp.
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Medium-sized clearwing moths with an alar expanse of
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Tegumen short and narrow; gnathos simple, bipartite, without thorns apically; uncus long, very narrow, dorsally covered with long scales, laterally somewhat enlarged at tip, without ventral or lateral setae; tuba analis with straight, long, narrow, well sclerotised subscaphium; valva elongate, narrow, apically rounded, inner surface with numerous specialized setae on dorsal portion, a longitudinal row of such setae from the base to the middle of the valva, ventral margin with a small, narrow patch of thorn-like setae basally, distal half densely covered with long, simple setae; saccus short, triangular; phallus simple, vesica without numerous minute spines.
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According to the structure of the male genitalia,
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belongs to the
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Hampson, [1893]
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genera group (Bartsch
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2023). The genus can defined by the following characters: (1) proboscis reduced; (2) mid and hindlegs short, without distinct scale tufts; (3) stalk of forewing veins R4/R5 extremely long, exceptionally veins completely fused; (4) abdomen long and slender with lateral scales on terminal segments; (5) anal tuft in male bipartite; (6) uncus straight, long and narrow; (7) subscaphium broad, straight; (8) valva long and narrow, apically rounded; (9) phallus exceptionally small and short, approximately two-thirds the length of the valva, without distinct sclerotised structures apically. 3, 4, 6 and 9 may be autapomorphic characters for the genus.
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is closely related to the African genera
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Bartsch &amp;
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,
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and
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<emphasis id="B972EACBFFC11255637BBD58FE42F8B9" box="[358,509,1807,1833]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="440">Thyranthrene</emphasis>
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. From these genera, as well as from all other African members of the
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Hübner [1819]
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-genera group,
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differs by the short legs, which do not come close to the length of the slender abdomen and by the lack of distinct scale tufts on the mid and hindlegs. Males are also characterized by the long, bipartite anal tuft.
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species
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are larger and more compact, with hindlegs approximately as long as the abdomen. In males of these genera the colouration is usually dark brown to black with bright yellow body markings and the anal tuft is fan-like, not bipartite (Bartsch
<emphasis id="B972EACBFFC112556693BD93FB78F84D" box="[1166,1223,1987,2013]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="440">et al.</emphasis>
2023, unpublished for
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<emphasis id="B972EACBFFC2125662DEBAC0FE8AFF21" box="[195,309,151,177]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="441">Rubukona</emphasis>
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). Males of the almost monochrome bluish black
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Sáfián &amp; Bartsch, 2023
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have semi-transparent hindwings.
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<emphasis id="B972EACBFFC2125663C2BAECFDEEFF45" box="[479,593,187,213]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="441">Rubukona</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
males have the abdomen slightly waisted with large, fan-like anal tuft. In their male genitalia,
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and
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<emphasis id="B972EACBFFC21256603BBA88FD27FF69" box="[550,664,223,249]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="441">Rubukona</emphasis>
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differ by the larger tegumen, the broader, the curved uncus and tuba analis, the broader valva, the longer and usually narrower saccus and the relatively longer and thicker phallus.
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<emphasis id="B972EACBFFC21256628ABB70FE91FED1" box="[151,302,295,321]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="441">Thyranthrene</emphasis>
species
</taxonomicName>
are more compact, the antennae shorter and thicker, sometimes serrate, the abdomen with white rings, which are somewhat indistinct in males, the anal tuft simple, shorter and wider and the tibiae of all legs with tufted scales. The male genitalia have the gnathos stronger, with terminal hocks, the uncus in middle portion broader and terminally pointed, the valva triangular, apically pointed or narrowly rounded, the saccus longer and narrower and the phallus longer and broader with sclerotised plates terminally. Almost all
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from other continents have a comparatively shorter and broader abdomen with simple, short and broad anal tuft and a well-developed proboscis.
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