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 : 48

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.87.2

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F51C3E2B-83E3-4043-9795-675B8211A4FB

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16959007

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FA570A-FC0F-FFB7-7BF6-FB09FA686824

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scientific name

Brunia Moore, 1878
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Subgenus Brunia Moore, 1878 View in CoL

Diagnosis. Male adults have rather unicolorous body. In the male genitalia, species of the nominate subgenus are characterised by the condition of the distal section of the phallus, which has longitudinal wrinkles making it flexible and expandable. In the female genitalia, the ductus bursae is broad, heavily gelatinous or sclerotised, very short in certain species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Erebidae

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