Cranionycta keeskleini, Gielis & Kiss, 2022

Kiss, Ádám, 2025, Taxonomic study of the genus Cranionycta de Lattin, 1949 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Acronictinae) with description of a new subgenus and 21 new species, Zootaxa 5640 (1), pp. 1-71 : 32-33

The keeskleini species-group

The species group contains three externally distinguishable species, however, there are similar species in other species groups. The genitalia can be characterised by in males, the wide, more or less parallel valvae with a short, somewhat more abruptly curved ventral margin apically and a somewhat more pointed apex; in females, the stick-like anterior and posterior apophyses; the relatively wide and short ductus bursae; the proportionally smaller size of the corpus bursae; and the distally narrower, proximally much wider junction of the appendix bursae with the corpus bursae. Wingspan 29–36 mm.

The male 8 th abdominal segments can be characterised by the distally wider sternite with distally uniformly widening lateral sides, a more or less semi-circularly sclerotized distal part, and a larger window with a pronounced lateral extensions and an irregular, more or less semi-circular sclerotized stripe; the widest in the middle tergite with a less pointed proximal edge, a proximally uniformly narrowing lateral sides with more rounded spur-like distal end, and with a more irregular, spade-shaped window.

The female terminal abdominal segments are unknown.

Distribution. Himalayan.