Docleomorpha Hering, 1922

Huang, Si-Yao, Horie, Kiyoshi & Espeland, Marianne, 2025, A review of the genus Docleomorpha Hering (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae, Chalcosiinae) with descriptions of four new species, Zootaxa 5689 (1), pp. 155-164 : 156

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5689.1.6
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scientific name	Docleomorpha Hering, 1922
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Genus Docleomorpha Hering, 1922 View in CoL

Docleomorpha Hering, 1922: 22 View in CoL ;

type species: Pintia boholica Semper, 1898 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. Members of the genus are small-sized moth with black ground color and yellow stripes of different shapes on wings. Superficially, the genus can be easily distinguished from Cryptophysophilus and Heterusinula in the same clade, both only known from females, by the less-developed yellow patterns on forewing (yellow patterns occupy half of the forewing in Cryptophysophilus and Heterusinula ) in female. In female genitalia Docleomorpha is closer to Cryptophysophilus by sharing the presence of strong sclerotisation in antrum (antrum only weakly sclerotised in Heterusinula ), and it can be distinguished from Cryptophysophilus by the much shorter sclerotised section on antrum. The male genitalia of Docleomorpha are similar to those of the genus Corma Walker, 1865 ( type species Corma obscurata Walker, 1865 , by subsequent designation by Kirby (1892)) but can be distinguished by the presence of juxta and the free distal saccular process (fused with valvula in Corma ).