Zolotuhia, Beljaev & Gorbunov & Korb, 2025

Beljaev, Evgeniy A., Gorbunov, Pavel Yu. & Korb, Stanislav K., 2025, A new genus and species of lappet moths (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) from Central Asia with notes on the systematics of the family, Zootaxa 5566 (1), pp. 119-144 : 120

Zolotuhia , genus nova

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Type species: Zolotuhia paradoxa , species nova, by present designation.

Male. Forehead in lower part at the level of 1/3 of eye height with moderately high cylindrical projection (frontoclypeal process) bearing crown of small serrations along distal edge. Antennae bipectinate, rami extremely long, reaching 1/4 of flagellum length. Middle and hind tibia without spurs. Forewings grey with light L-shaped discal spot and with single distinct dark submarginal line. Forewing veins Rs3 and Rs4 stalked, hindwings with humeral Sc-Rs cell lacking, vein Sc+R1 short, reaching costal margin of wing at about 2/3 of its length. In male genitalia, gnathos with medial pair of long, strong, spine-like processes, fused basally. Valvae wide, with almost square apical part; sacculus with wide and short lobe-shaped distal process. Vesica of phallus with dense group of few small and short spiny cornuti.

Female. As for male, but antennal rami short, and colouration of forewings more uniform, without transverse lines and with distinct light discal spot only. In the female genitalia, bursa copulatrix with inflated ductus bursae and with oval corpus bursae forming two almost equal sections separated by narrow bridge.

Etymology. The genus Zolotuhia (feminine) is named after Dr. Vadim Zolotuhin, an outstanding specialist of the family Lasiocampidae , who untimely passed away in 2021. The last two letters from his surname—“in”—have been omitted in order to more harmoniously latinize the word.