Brunia, Moore, 1878

Volynkin, Anton V. & Černý, Karel, 2025, On the taxonomy of the Brunia Moore generic complex with the description of a new genus, a new subgenus and four new species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini: Lithosiina), Ecologica Montenegrina 87, pp. 46-76 : 47-48

The Brunia generic complex

The generic complex comprises genera displaying moderate sexual dimorphism with moths having greyish, brownish or yellowish forewing ground colour. In the male genitalia, the genera of the complex share the following features. (1) The uncus is short, more or less cylindrical or swollen, with a clawshaped tip. (2) The vinculum is short, rather V-shaped, with a small medial corema invaginated into it ventro-posteriorly and bearing a bunch of long hair-shaped androconial scales. (3) The editum is elongate and narrow, stretching along the ventral margin of the costa; the tendon is present. (4) The costa is well-developed, forms the dorsal margin of the valva. (5) The lamella centralis is present (except for Sany ). (6) The vesica has several diverticula, some of which bear robust cornuti of various shapes. The female genitalia of the generic complex are more characteristic and have a corpus bursae clearly subdivided into two sections, of which the posterior one is heavily sclerotised and has a short and sclerotised appendix bursae originating postero-laterally or postero-ventrally; the anterior section of the corpus bursae is globular or teardrop-shaped, membranous and bears two small pushpin-shaped signa.

Besides the genera and subgenera considered in the present paper, the generic complex also includes the Afrotropical genus Kruegerilema Volynkin & László, 2021 endemic to Sao Tome Island (see: Volynkin & László 2021), which is morphologically very similar to Brunia .