Cteipolia murina (Menetries, 1848)

Volynkin, Anton V., Dûda, Juozas, Saldaitis, Aidas, Benedek, Balázs, Titov, Sergey V., Kalashian, Mark, Matov, Alexey Yu, Gorbunov, Pavel Yu. & Tóth, Balázs, 2024, On the taxonomy of the genus Cteipolia Staudinger (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Noctuinae) with descriptions of two new species from Transcaucasia and Central Asia, Ecologica Montenegrina 77, pp. 146-160 : 153-154

The C. murina species-group

Note. As C. sacelli is herein transferred to the C. mimetica species-group, this group is re-named in accordance with the oldest species name in it.

Diagnosis. Adults of the species-group are distinguished from the C. tertia species-group by the pale, eyespot-like orbicular and reniform stigmata having a thin dark core and a broad pale edge, whereas in the tertia species-group, the dark cores are markedly longer and thicker while the pale edge is thin. The male genitalia ground plans of the two species-groups are alike but in the female genitalia of the C. murina species-group, the antrum is elongate and rather champagne glass-shaped whereas it is short and bowl-shaped in the C. tertia species-group.