Malesia van Eecke, 1920

Koshkin, E. S., 2025, FIRST RECORD OF THE GENUS MALESIA VAN EECKE, 1920 (LEPIDOPTERA: EREBIDAE, ARCTIINAE) FOR WALLACEA WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES FROM LOMBOK ISLAND, Far Eastern Entomologist 516, pp. 1-6 : 2

Genus Malesia van Eecke, 1920

Malesia van Eecke, 1920: 132 .

Type species: Malesia eugoana van Eecke, 1920 .

DIAGNOSIS. All known species of Malesia are characterized by small size and similar external appearance. Forewing narrow, ochreous. Forewing pattern includes two rounded black spots in the middle and at the end of the discal cell and a dark oblique band in the postmedial area; in some specimens, a dark discontinuous transverse band in the submarginal area. Hindwing translucent. Antenna bipectinate in male, filiform in female. In male genitalia uncus long, slender, slightly extended at tip. Tegumen broad, v-shaped. Valva elongate, costa with distal process (absent in M. cana Černy, 2014 ). Distal saccular process present only in M. cana . Aedeagus straight, short, broad, tapering distally (except in M. cana , where aedeagus is longer and thinner). Vesica long, with a longitudinal ridge with a series of spine-like cornuti (except in M. cana , where vesica is short and broad with other arrangements of cornuti and scobination).