S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 56. (Budapest, 1995)

dark brownish, very sinuous; subterminal obsolescent, an interrupted, waved, pale ochreous shadow. Orbicular and reniform stigmata present, encircled with pale ochreous annuli and some darker brown spots. Orbicular rounded, reniform more or less quadrangular; claviform deleted. Cilia darker brownish. Hindwing pale ochreous, suffused with darker brownish, veins somewhat darker; cilia yellowish. Underside of wings shining ochreous or ochreous-grey, crosslines and discal spots pale, fine. Male genitalia (Figs 1-4): uncus long, weak, tegumen broad, fultura inferior big, elliptical. Valva elongated, costa strongly sclerotized, cucullus relatively narrow, apex without processes but with one very little crista; corona absent. Sacculus broad, harpe flattened, sclerotized, terminated in a characteristic peak. Aedeagus moderately long, cylindrical, partly granulosely sclerotized. Carina sclerotized, its dorsal extension long, ribbon-like, its ventral extension much shorter, weaker, terminated in a strong, large, spinelike cornutus. Vesica broadly tubular, recurved ventrally. Subbasal diverticulum large, semiglobular, armed with numerous strong spinules, distal end of vesica bearing with a narrow field of fine, spiculiform cornuti. Female genitalia (Fig. 5): ovipositor relatively short, weak, gonapophyses short. Ostium bursae sclerotized, broadly triangular, tapering proximally. Ductus bursae moderately long, strongly sclerotized, caudally tapering. Corpus bursae large, sacculiform, membranous, with numerous small signa, cervix bursae more or less conical, rugose, apically granulosely sclerotized. Specific differences. The new species resembles to some Conisania or Sideridis Hübner, [1821] 1816 species, e.g. C. capsivora (Draudt, 1933), C. xanthothrix Boursin, 1960, S. egenoides Boursin, 1966, S. egena (Lederer, 1853), and even to pale, small specimens of Cornutifera simplex (Staudinger, 1889) differing from them by its relatively sharp, continuous, strongly waved ante- and postmedial crosslines and the almost completely encircled orbicular and reniform stigmata. The supposedly closest known relative of C. verhulsti, C. agrotoides Hacker & Speidel, 1992, is rather dissimilar, resembling to the light forms of S. satanella (Alphéraky, 1892). The male genitalia of C. verhulsti is rather remote from all known members of Conisania, representing the most extreme stage in the reduction of the clasping apparatus. The distinctive features between C. verhulsti and C. agrotoides lie in the shape of the uncus (fine, slender in verhulsti, relatively short but wide, spatulate in agrotoides), the valva (shorter, basally much broader in verhulsti with less expressed cucullus terminated in a fine hook), the harpe (short, flattened, lanceolate in verhulsti, longer, narrower in agrotoides), the costal process (absent in verhulsti, strong, horn-like in agrotoides) and the configuration of the vesica (shorter, much broader in verhulsti with the extension of the carina forming a strong tooth, the cornuti field is rather short, situated on a semiglobular diverticulum while much longer, tubular in agrotoides, without tooth-like extension of carina, cornuti field considerably longer, consisting of shorter cornuti). It is worth to mention, that the female genitalia of the Conisania species are poorly known, therefore the female genitalia of the new species is hardly comparable with any of its closer relatives. The new species is dedicated to Mr. Josef Verhulst, the collector of the holotype.