Euproctis HÜBNER 1819

Patočka, J. & Turčáni, M., 2008, Contribution to the Description of Pupae of the Western Palaearctic lymantriids (Lepidoptera, Lymantriidae), Linzer biologische Beiträge 40 (1), pp. 901-920 : 905

Genus Euproctis HÜBNER 1819

Genus Euproctis is described in PATOČKA (1991) and it is possible to identify it using the key to genera of family Lymantriidae in PATOČKA & TURČÁNI (2005) or using the modified key of genera, listed in this paper (at genus Calliteara ). Here described species E. melania differs from central European species ( E. chrysorrhoea (LINNAEUS 1758) and E. similis (FUESSLY 1775) by long antennae of male (fig. 33), longer prothoracic coxae (figs 33, 63) and by cremaster, which is short and wide, obtuse and concave on caudal end (figs 36-38).