Teulisna kishidai

Volynkin, Anton V., Černý, Karel & Huang, Si-Yao, 2025, On the generic assignment of the taxa placed in the Oriental footman-moth genus Teulisna with the description of three new genera, one subgenus and eighteen new species, Ecologica Montenegrina 88, pp. 104-163 : 127

The T. kishidai species-group

Diagnosis. Superficially, the only species of the species-group is reminiscent of the T. pallida species-group but is easily distinguishable by its sexually dimorphic hindwing, which is broad and orange with a medially angled margin in the male and more pointed, pale yellow with a smooth margin in the female. The male genitalia ground plan of the T. kishidai species-group is similar to the T. pallida species-group but differs in the shorter and narrower dorsal section of the valva, longer and broader lamella centralis, and the larger, unilobate blade-shaped distal saccular process, which is distally bilobate in all members of the T. pallida species-group. The vesica of the T. kishidai species-group is narrow with a short main chamber and tubular diverticula whereas in the T. pallida species-group, the main chamber of the vesica is broad and has conical, saccate or semiglobular diverticula. The female genitalia of the T. kishidai species-group are characterised by the strongly elongate and relatively narrow posterior section of the corpus bursae, and the reduced appendix bursae, which is large and gelatinous in the T. pallida species-group.