Neoreta Warren, 1897

Neoreta Warren, 1897, Novit. zool., 4: 378. Type species: Oreta olga Swinhoe, 1894, by original designation. India: Shillong, Khasi Hills. stat. rev.

Cyclura Warren, 1897, Novit. zool., 4: 14. Type species: Cyclura excisa Warren, 1897, by monotypy. Indonesia: Borneo. (A junior homonym of Cyclura Harlan, 1825 (Reptilia))

Amphitorna Turner, 1911, Ann. Qd. Mus., 10: 95. Type species: Amphitorna lechriodes Turner, 1926, by monotypy. Australia: Karanda Old. syn. nov.

Tomocerota Matsumuta, 1921, Thousand Insects Japan (Addit.), 4: 946. Type species: Tomocerota formosana Matsumura, 1921, by monotypy. China: Formosa (Taiwan).

Procampsis Warren, 1923, in Seitz, Macrolepid. World, 10: 488. Type species: Procampsis trogoptera Warren, 1923, by monotypy. Indonesia: Mt. Goliath.

Diagnosis. Most species of the genus Neoreta can be recognized easily by the distinctive wing pattern: the antemedial and postmedial lines are parallel, and the latter is angled near the costa; the hind wing has a distinct postmedial line, and its outer margin is excavated and forms a hook medially. The forewing usually has a pale discocellular spot. In the male genitalia, the uncus is nearly obsolete, the socii are expanded like petals; the median process of the gnathos has a pair of diagnostically hooked processes; the anellus has a pair of developed and pointed processes; the valva is narrow, expanded and rounded terminally, sometimes spine-like; the saccus is sometimes concave. The sternite 8 usually has one pair of triangular processes at the middle of the posterior margin. The female genitalia have a bilobed signum in the corpus bursae.

Distribution. China, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea.

Remarks. The name Cyclura is regarded as a valid generic name in Watson (1967) and Chu & Wang (1985, 1987, 1991). Fletcher (1979) indicated that it is a junior homonym of Cyclura Harlan, 1825 (Reptilia) . Holloway (1998) used Amphitorna to be the replacement name of Cyclura and listed Neoreta, Procampsis and Tomocerota as synonyms, without explaining why not use Neoreta as the replacement name of Cyclura . However, Neoreta Warren, 1897 is a valid senior name and should be the adopted name of this genus. The following species are included in this genus: Neoreta olga (Swinhoe, 1894), N. perexcisa Warren, 1923, N. purpureofascia (Wileman, 1911), N. submontana Holloway, 1976, N. excisa (Warren, 1897) comb. nov., N. albipuncta (Hampson, 1893) comb. nov., N. castanea (Hampson, 1891) comb. nov., N. lechriodes (Turner, 1926) comb. nov., N. trogoptera (Rothschild, 1915) comb. nov., N. confusata (Warren, 1899) comb. nov., N. brunhyala (Shen & Chen, 1990) comb. nov.