Bellulia kareni, Fibiger, 2008

Han, Hui Lin & Kononenko, Vladimir S., 2021, Six new species of the genus Bellulia Fibiger, 2008 from China and Cambodia (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Hypenodinae). Taxonomic study of Micronoctuini Contribution III, Zootaxa 4938 (1), pp. 117-130 : 118

Bellulia kareni species-group.

Members of the B. kareni species-group are pale-coloured moths with yellowish reniform; in the male genitalia the saccus triangular; the valvae are asymmetrical; ampullae are asymmetrical, forming circle, right valva larger than left one; tegumen ventrally fused with fultura superior with a prominent, log-like process on each side; left process free, rounded apically; right process fused at both ends; aedeagus curved subapically and subbasally, not obviously tapered towards apex; the vesica with a row of more than 5 triangular cornuti.

Checklist

B. kareni Fibiger, 2008

B. tenebrosa sp. n.

B. clara sp. n.

Key to the species of the kareni species-group

1. Antemedial line blackish grey; process of costa not thumb-shaped............................................... 2

– Antemedial line light brownish grey; process of costa slender, thumb-shaped............................ B. clara sp. n.

2. Antemedial line rather broad; process of costa short and straight cone-shaped, protruding from exterior half of costa........................................................................................... … B. tenebrosa sp. n.

– Antemedial line rather broad; process of costa horn-shaped, protruding from medial part of costa................ B. kareni