Anepholcia Prout, 1924

Behounek, Gottfried & Kononenko, Vladimir, 2011, A revision of the genus Anepholcia Prout, 1924 with description of three new species from South East Asia (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Revision of Pantheinae, Contribution IV, Zootaxa 3097, pp. 20-34 : 20

Genus Anepholcia Prout, 1924

ANEPHOLCIA Prout, 1924 , in Prout & Talbot, Bull Hill Museum, Witley 1: 401.

Type species Anepholcia talboti Prout, 1924 , ibidem 1: 402, pl. 13, fig, 9, by original designation.

Diagnosis. Rather large (wingspan 45–58 mm) moths with robust body and dark glossy yellowish-brown forewing and bright-yellow dark bordered hindwing. The antennae of both sexes bipectinate, the pectination tapering apically; female antennae shortly bipectinate. Labial palps straight, pressed, loosely scaled their 3rd segment 2 times shorter then 2nd. Forewing dark, with shining. Hindwing bright-yellow with brownish-black terminal band. Abdomen very robust, hardly narrowing to the end, dorsally with abdominal crest, on segment 3 it is exceptionally large. Fore and mid tibiae very thickly clothed with long hair, the hind tibia less densely clothed. In male genitalia uncus rather short, robust; tegument shorter than vinculum, with broad lobes; vinculum with long saccus; juxta shield-like or separated for two lobes; valva rather short, broad, with ventral harpe position; aedeagus large, with vesica bearing 1–2 large diverticula and armed with small scobinate cornuti. In female genitalia ovipositor short, papillae anales wide, quadrangular, apophyses posteriores and anteriores ones short, almost equal in length; antrum funnel- or tube-like; corpus bursae long, ovoid or short, pearl-shaped. The genus is distributed exclusively in the Oriental region from northern Vietnam and Thailand to Sumatra, Borneo, and Philippines ( Fig. 38 ). It is not known from Java, Sulawesi and other islands of Indonesia and New Guinea; however records for Anepholcia spp. are likely for that area in the course of further faunal investigations of the region. The genus contains five species, including three new described below.

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FIGURES 38 – 43. Anepholcia spp., distribution maps. 38 – Distribution area of the genus Anepholcia; 39 — A. pygaria; 40 — A. talboti; 41 — A. kobesi; 42 — A. brechlini; 43 — A. philippina.