Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 80. (Budapest 1988)

Ronkay, G. ; Ronkay, L.: Taxonomic studies on the Palaearctic Cuculliae (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae), Part IV

line at costa, dark streak of submedian fold very pale or absent. Basal field pure whitish grey except at inner margin. Antemedial line dark grey, double, filled with ochreous grey, strongly sinuous. Orbicular and reniform spots incompletely encircled with light grey, filled with blackish and brown spots and patches, reniform usually defined with blackish at lower edge; other parts of cell filled with dark blackish-brown. Claviform a short streak or obsolete, medial line absent, postmedial line dark brown, diffuse, double, somewhat sharper at inner margin. Subterminal line obsolescent, lighter grey defined by greyish and brownish spots on outer side. Terminal area with a dark streak running from lower extremity of cell to subterminal line, veins finely covered with black. Tornus with a thick, short and dark, usually blackish streak, terminal line fine, ochreous with a row of strong black spots at inner side. Cilia dark grey with two fine, lighter lines. —-Hind wing pale greyish with some ochreous shine, cellular lunules very pale or absent, marginal suffusion wide, grey-brown; cilia pure white. Underside of fore wing patternless grey with darker irroration on outer side and with shadows of stigmata. Underside of hind wing whitish with few greyish scales, usually patternless. Colouration of females similar, only slightly darker than that of males. Male genitalia (Fig. 23): Uncus long, tegumen high, fultura inferior a deltoidé plate vinculum relatively short, V-shaped. Valvae elongate and narrow, dilated at end of sacculus, cucullus long and acute. Sacculus short, clavus very long, distally finely dilates, its apex rounded. Harpe long and slender, medially slightly constricted, apical part tapering, pointed. Aedeagus thick and moderately long, dorsal end with a sclerotized lamina. Vesica consisting of two tubular diverticles bearing long cornuti and a large curved, sac-like diverticulum. At base of a tubular diverticulum a globular appendage can be found. Female genitalia (Fig. 27) : Ovipositor short and wide, gonapophyses short, especially anterior pair. Caudal part of ductus bursae membraneous, anterior part with a sclerotized lamina