Muscula Koçak, 1991

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), Zootaxa 5191 (1), pp. 1-87 : 39

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)