Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 92. (Budapest 2000)

Ronkay, L.: Revision of the genus Lophoterges Hampson, 1906 (s. l.) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae, Cuculliinae). Part I

ter with stronger, more acute subcellular extension, larger, paler, more whitish subcellular patch and more obsolete crosslines, the cilia is strongly striolate with white. The species of the genus Speidelia have narrower, more elongate forewings with less sharply defined outlines of the stigmata and the subcellular patch, their hindwings are shorter, more rounded, with regularly paler colouration. The differences in the genitalia of the species of the three genera are discussed in the diagnosis of the genus Atakterges. Description - wingspan 33-35 mm, length of forewing 15-16 mm. Male. Pubescence of head and thorax long, dark brownish grey, mixed with paler grey, whitish and blackish hairs. Antenna finely ciliate, dorsal surface covered with whitish scales; basal tufts of antenna also whitish. Palpi dark grey, collar producing acute hood, dark ashy grey with black medial line and whitish tip, tegulac marked with blackish and whitish hairs. Abdomen somewhat paler greyish brown, tufts of dorsal crest blackish grey. Forewing relatively broad, elongate triangular, with apex pointed, outer margin evenly arcuate. Ground colour dark grey, mixed with brown and whitish scales. Ante- and postmedial crosslines rather diffuse, dark grey, sinuous, median fascia variably strong, oblique. Orbicular and reniform stigmata present, orbicular oblique, flattened, encircled with blackish and whitish lines. Reniform large, lunulate, with huge extension at lower part, forming large, more or less sharply defined subcellular patch, marked with blackish line and variably intense whitish filling; claviform absent. Subterminal strongly sinuous, marked usually with fine white line, defined with strong black arrowhead-spots. Cilia as ground colour, chequered with whitish. Hindwing broad, more or less patternless whitish grey with variably strong dark grey-brown irroration and darker marginal suffusion. Veins covered with brown, discal spot small, diffuse, transverse line represented by dark spots Figs 13-14. Genitalia of Atakterges fidia (DRAUDT): 13 = male, paralectotype, China; 14 = female, lectotype, China