Tufteulisna Volynkin, Černý, 2025

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 : 106-107

Genus Tufteulisna Volynkin, Černý & Huang, gen. n.

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Type species: Teulisna pendleburyi Holloway, 1982 , by present designation.

Diagnosis. The new genus ( Figs 3, 4 ) is closely related to Plumareola with males sharing such external diagnostic features as the abdomen bearing bristles of androconial hair-like scales and the forewing cell having a comma-shaped transverse fold. However, unlike in Plumareola , males of Tufteulisna gen. n. have shorter abdominal androconial hair-like scales and more angled forewing apex and tornus. The male genital capsule of Tufteulisna gen. n. ( Fig. 93 ) is similar to Plumareola with its robust uncus, heavily sclerotised scaphium, and proximally narrow sacculus, but is distinct in the juxta lacking the processes, and the strongly enlarged bilobate lamella centralis with a massive and heavily sclerotised distal lobe forming a cucullus-like distal section of the valva, the feature considered herein as autapomorphic. The vesica of Tufteulisna gen. n. is longer than in Plumareola and lacks the spines. In the female genitalia, Tufteulisna gen. n. ( Fig. 146 ) differs from Plumareola in the markedly shorter, pyriform and membranous corpus bursae, which has a sclerotised posterior end in the latter genus.

Etymology. The genus name is an aggregate of the English ‘tuft’ and the genus-group name Teulisna , and refers to the male abdomen of members of the new genus bearing tufts of hair-shaped androconial scales. Gender is feminine.

Taxonomic content. The genus comprises two valid species: Tufteulisna pendleburyi (Holloway, 1982) , comb. n. and Tufteulisna xanthura (Rothschild, 1920) , comb. n., and is under revision by Volynkin & Černý (in prep.).

Figures

Figures 1–16. Adults of Lithosiina spp. Depositories of the specimens: 1–4, 11 and 12 in MWM/ZSM; 5–10, 13– 16 in CKC.

Figures 92–95. Male genitalia of Lithosiina spp. Depositories of the specimens dissected: 92 and 93 in MWM/ZSM; 94 in CKC; 95 in NHMUK.

Figures 145–148. Female genitalia of Lithosiina spp. Depositories of the specimens dissected: 145 and 146 in MWM/ZSM; 147 and 148 in CKC.