Pseudopostega fungina, 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 fungina group

Externally, species are characterized by the brown fascia of the forewing ( Fig. 1 ); cream or white frontal tuft. In the male genitalia, the uncus is comprised of two long, widely rounded lateral lobes; the gnathos is an inverted V-shape, with a short, wide, distally rounded caudal process; valva with a distinctive, long pedicel, small, rounded cucullar lobe, and a compact cluster of pectens of the pectinifer; and the vinculum with a large, distally pointed juxta ( Fig. 1 ). Female is unknown.

The fungina group is distinguished from the other groups of the Oriental (or Neotropical) Pseudopostega by the combination of a large juxta, long pedicel of valva, small rounded cucullar lobes, and large lobes of the uncus in the male genitalia.

Distribution. Currently the group is comprised of a single species from India.

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