Cunicumara St Laurent, 2016

Laurent, Ryan A. St & Kawahara, Akito Y., 2019, Reclassification of the Sack-bearer Moths (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae), ZooKeys 815, pp. 1-114 : 11

Cunicumara St Laurent, 2016 Figs 5, 77

Type species.

Cunicumara anae St Laurent, 2016.

Diagnosis.

Hoary appearance caused by interspersion of gray, pale-khaki, and dark-brown scales layered upon salmon to orange-brown, sandy tan ground color. Extremely long bipectinate antennae extending more than half length of the stout forewings, with distinctly long pectinations.

Apomorphies.

(1) Basally-fused and outwardly projected gnathos with paired distal extensions (Fig. 5a); (2) Phallus with dorsal, curled, horn-like juxtal processes with third, single process located between the curled pair (Fig. 5b).

Remarks.

St Laurent et al. (2018a) did not include this genus in their phylogeny and instead treated this genus as incertae sedis based on morphology, due to similarities with the other incertae sedis genera. The morphological phylogenetic results of the present article support a close relationship between Cunicumara and other incertae sedis genera, particularly with Menevia and Roelofa (Fig. 1, see also Suppl. materials 5-7).

The female of C. anae is unknown, and thus we are unable to figure it or its genitalia.