Muscula Kocak 1991
Authors/Creators
- 1. Corresponding author
- 2. Apartado de Correos 47, 21080 Huelva, Spain. huertasdionisio @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 6758 - 1984
- 3. Biosciences Department, University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, 08500, Vic, Spain. josep. bau @ uvic. cat; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9231 - 2356
Description
Genus Muscula Koçak, 1991 stat. rev.
Muscula Koçak, 1991 Priamus 5 (4): 126.
Type species: Lithosia muscula Staudinger, 1899. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris 12: 156, by original designation.
Diagnosis.
Imago. Forewings wide, with convex costal margin; pale subcostal line absent. Generally small size.
Male genitalia. Uncus very long, slender, cylindrical and curved; valvae triangular fully sclerotised, with strongly developed saccular field; cucullus lobe reduced to a hook-like basal appendage; clasper absent; juxta Vshaped enlarged, bifid with two sclerotised arms; vinculum medially membranous with sclerotised lateral arms. Aedeagus short, without cornuti and without sclerotised fascia and apical spur.
Female genitalia. Lamella postvaginalis heart-shaped strongly sclerotised; ductus bursae short and membranous. These characteristics are unique within the European species of Eilema sensu lato.
Molecular data. A single species of this genus (Muscula muscula) has been analysed. It has not been possible the study of Muscula brevifurca (Wiltshire, 1957).
Taxa included.
Muscula muscula (Staudinger, 1899)
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Kocak
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Muscula
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Muscula Kocak, 1991 sec. Macià, Ylla, Gastón, Huertas & Bau, 2022
References
- Kocak, A. J. (1991) On the Arctiidae of Turkey on the collection of CES with some taxonomical and ecological notes (Lepidoptera). Priamus, 5 (4), 122 - 149.
- Staudinger, O. (1899) Neue Lepidopteren des palaearktischen Faunengebiets. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift Iris, 12, 156. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9446