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Muscula Kocak 1991

  • 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)

Notes

Published as part of Macià, Ramon, Ylla, Josep, Gastón, Javier, Huertas, Manuel & Bau, Josep, 2022, The species of Eilema Hübner, [1819] sensu lato present in Europe and North Africa (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini), pp. 1-87 in Zootaxa 5191 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5191.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7144073

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Additional details

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