Pseudopostega strigulata, Puplesis & Robinson, 1999

Stonis, Jonas R., Remeikis, Andrius, Solis, M. Alma & Karsholt, Ole, 2021, Diagnostics and updated checklist of Oriental Pseudopostega (Opostegidae) including the matrona species group with a new, extralimital species discovered in the Mediterranean, Zootaxa 4933 (3), pp. 341-360 : 348

The strigulata group

Externally, species are characterized by the cream white forewing with a couple of oblique distal markings on the costal margin ( Fig. 1 ); a white frontal tuft. In the male genitalia, the uncus is comprised of two large, distally pointed lateral lobes; the gnathos without a central plate, comprised of two very large lateral arms and a long, slender caudal process; and the vinculum with a membranous, laterally thickened juxta connected to the base of caudal process of the gnathos ( Fig. 1 ). Female is unknown.

The strigulata group is distinguished from other groups of the Oriental (or Neotropical) Pseudopostega by the combination of large, distally pointed lobes of the uncus and the long, slender caudal process of the gnathos in the male genitalia.

Distribution. Currently the group is comprised of a single species from India ( Fig. 1 ).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Pictorial diagnostic tool for identification of Oriental Pseudopostega species groups (Note: the morphological structures are drawn in different scales). * – except for P. similantis with an indistinctive dorsal spot; ** – formerly the nigrimaculella group; *** – Mediterranean P. matrona sp. nov., described below