Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 89. (Budapest 1997)

Ronkay, L.: A new Brachygalea Hampson, 1906 species from Iran (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)

Figs 2—3. Male genitalia of Brachygalea miskoi sp. n., holotype, Iran Description: wingspan 31 mm, length of forewing 14 mm. Body robust, head and thorax pale ashy grey mixed with darker brownish grey, collar and tegulae marked with whitish and blackishbrown. Abdomen rather short, lighter greyish, dorsal crest strong, dark brown-grey. Forewing light ash-grey with a fine bluish shade, suffused with darker greyish brown in medial field; veins covered finely with dark grey, inner margin with a fine, short black line. Crosslines obsolete, antemedial represented by a pale shadow below submedian fold, postmedial missing. Streak of submedian fold short, blackish, marked with whitish at basal area. Stigmata rather sharply defined, orbicular flattened, oblique, reniform narrow, lunulate, both encircled with fine blackish lines and filled with whitish, reniform with darker centre. Claviform long, narrow, white, with more or less interrupted black outline. Subterminal a row of pale brownish arrowheads defined with some whitish, streak of tornus somewhat stronger, more blackish. Cilia white, striolated with dark bluish-grey and brown. Hindwing almost unicolorously dark brown, inner third slightly lighter. Veins covered with darker brown, discal spot small, poorly visible. Cilia white, inner half spotted with brown. Underside of both wings ochreous-grey, hindwing scarcely, inner area of forewing densely suffused with dark grey. Discal spots pale but visible, transverse lines missing, cilia as on upper side. Male genitalia (Figs 2-3): uncus short, strong, apically slightly hooked, tegumen narrow, moderately high. Fultura inferior a cordiform plate with long, narrow apical process, vinculum strong, long, more or less V-shaped. Valva relatively short, sclerotized, basally broadened, apically tapering, cucullus and pollex short, acute; corona missing. Sacculus broad, clavus large, serrated, its triangular basal process relatively short, wide. Harpe reduced, represented by it slender basal bar fused with ventral margin. Aedeagus rather short, cylindrical, distally slightly dilated. Carina with a relatively short, sclerotized, dentated dorso-lateral lamina prolonged ventrally, forming a narrow half-ring, opposite end armed with a few fine teeth. Vesica everted forward, recurved latero-ventrally. Basal tube short, without diverticulum, medial part inflated, armed with a large number of