Homadaula Lower, 1899

Mey, Wolfram, 2022, Taxonomic notes on Palearctic taxa of Galacticidae, a little-known family of Lepidoptera (Galacticoidea), Nota Lepidopterologica 45, pp. 169-190 : 169

Homadaula Lower, 1899

Homadaula Lower, 1899: 115. Type species H. lasiochroa Lower, 1899; by monotypy, type locality: New South Wales, Broken Hill.

Homadaula Lower, 1899: Meyrick (1914), Meyrick (1917), Caradja and Meyrick (1935), Clarke (1943, 1967); Friese (1962), Inoue et al. (1982), Kyrki (1984), Minet (1986), Common (1990), Nielsen and Edwards (1996), Dugdale et al. (1998), Holloway et al. (2001), Mey (2004, 2007, 2011), Hirowatari et al. (2013).

Paraprays Rebel, 1910: 13-14. Type species P. punctigera Rebel, 1910; by monotypy, type locality: Alai Mts. [Kyrgyzstan], synonymised by Clarke (1967: 228).

Paraprays Rebel, 1910: Meyrick (1914), Moriuti (1963), Friese (1962), Kyrki (1990).

Galactica Walsingham, 1911: 14-15. Type species Galactica caradjae Walsingham, 1911; by monotypy, type locality: Algeria, Biskra, syn. nov.

Galactica Walsingham, 1911: Turati (1930), Friese (1960), Sattler (1967), Kyrki (1990), Mey (2004), Anikin et al. (2006, 2017).

Stichotactis Meyrick, 1930: 562-563. Type species S. calamitosa Meyrick, 1930: by monotypy, type locality: Sudan, Gendettu, bred from flowers of " Acacia nilotica and A. arabica ", synonymised by Clarke (1967: 228).

Diagnosis.

Male genitalia with tergum IX reduced or with uncus and remnants of gnathos invaginated into segment VIII, phallus short, not projecting, sclerotized, dagger-like and pointed, ankylosed with larger anellus forming a structure with complicated morphology.

Female genitalia with segment VII with sclerotised sternum and tergum, sometimes fused to a certain degree; dorsal side of tergum a broad, bilobed or compact plate without median, shallow groove; caudal margin of sternum VII symmetrical in ventral view, ostium bursae a small opening on tip of elongate and freely projecting, sterigmal tube (= henia), membranous or weakly sclerotised; ductus bursae barely longer than bursa copulatrix; bulla seminalis absent or present; bursa with or without signa.