Review of subgenus Daphaenisca Kiriakoff, 1953 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: <br />Arctiinae: Synthomini: Thyretina), with identification keys, and description of three new species

Abstract

We reviewed the subgenus Daphaenisca Kiriakoff, 1953 created for the single species Pseudapiconoma daphaena Hampson, 1898, in order to separate it from the other species included in the genus Pseudapiconoma Aurivillius, 1881. However, Kiriakoff's diagnosis was entirely based on the differences in the shape of the uncus among the subgenera Daphaenisca, Pseudapiconoma and Balacra Hampson, 1914. This study provides new, more accurate descriptions of the group, taking into account the differential characters and possible synapomorphies within the subgenus Daphaenisca. Our findings are supported by three new species recently discovered in Gabon and Ghana, belonging to the subgenus Daphaenisca: Balacra (Daphaenisca) inexpectata sp. n.; Balacra (Daphaenisca) magnoloi sp. n.; Balacra (Daphaenisca) flava sp. n.

On the terminology of the genitalia structures of lichen moths (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini) with some references to Noctuidae

“…In Lithosiini, there is a secondary articulation between these sclerites formed by lateral thinning, and in some groups a pleural sclerite (or pleurite) is also present (Figs 1,11,12,17). The annulus has sometimes been referred to in the literature as a 'tegumen-vinculum complex' (e.g., Lödl 2000;Durante & Zangrilli 2016; and serves as an insertion point for several groups of muscles (Forbes 1939;Birket-Smith 1965).…”