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

grey-brown, defined with some whitish scales, median fascia broad, diffuse, dark shadow. Subterminal line interrupted, strongly waved, white(ish), defined by strong, narrow, blackish arrowheads; veins covered with blackish in marginal area. Streak of submedian fold long, fine, black, orbicular and reniform stigmata present, encircled finely with blackish, filled with light grey and a few whitish scales. Orbicular elongate, strongly flattened, reniform more or less drop-shaped, lower part strongly dilated, extending far towards base of cell. Terminal line fine, black, marked with blackish spots, cilia whitish with dark grey inner half. Hindwing slightly transparent, whitish; veins, discal spot and narrow marginal suffusion darker brown. Terminal line dark brown, cilia whitish, with brown inner line. Underside of wings whitish, forewing suffused with dark grey-brown, discal spots and parts of transverse lines usually visible. Female similar, larger in size, forewings somewhat broader, dark suffusion of hindwing significantly stronger. Male genitalia (Fig. 20): uncus medium-long, strong, medially slightly dilated, apically finely hooked. Tegumen narrow, rather low; penicular lobes narrow, weak; fultura inferior cup-shaped, with deep apical (dorsal) incision; vinculum long, strong, V-shaped. Valva elongate, distally tapering; finely arcuate. Cucullus short, triangular, with apex pointed, corona rather weak, dorsal surface of cucullus finely setose. Sacculus short, less sclerotized, clavus reduced. Harpe strong, flattened, triangular, distally slightly curved, apically tapering, Finely setose. Pollex-like costal extension short, spine-like with apex acute. Aedeagus short, cylindrical, carina with very strong, heavily sclerotized, serrate dorsal plate. Vesica long, tubular, partly recurved, slightly twisted at basal third. Basal part membranous, medial and distal parts somewhat broadened, outer curve of distal two-third covered with fine, spiniform cornuti, their size increasing towards terminal part; terminal cornutus small, wide-based, with short, acute process. Female genitalia (Fig. 21): ovipositor rather short, weak, papillae anales elongate, setose, gonapophyses long, slender. Ostium bursae heavily sclerotized, large, dorsal plate more or less discoidal, ventral plate lyriform, half-ring-like. Ductus bursae long, tubular, flattened, sclerotized, proximal part tapering towards cervix bursae, distal third with strong horizontal folds. Bursa bilobate, cervix bursae shorter than corpus bursae, slightly twisted, turned caudally, apical part with stronger sclerotization. Corpus bursae elliptical-saccate, membranous, with two fine signum-stripes. Bionomics and distribution - Endemic to Taiwan. Remarks - This species and its male genitalia are illustrated by CHANG (1991, p. 162: 109; gen. fig.: p. 332: 109) as "Lophoterges taiwana (Wileman)". Acknowledgements - The author is greatly indebted to the colleagues and friends mentioned below for their kind help and support during the studies on the collection material and in the field work: D. STÜNING and W. SPEIDEL (Bonn), W. MEY (Berlin), M. R. HONEY (London), S. SuGl (Tokyo), H. HACKER (Staffelstein), J. T. CHAO and Y. Y. LIEN (Taipei), M. L. CHAN, C. S. LIN and M. M. YANG (Taichung), S. H. YEN (Kaohsiung), C. M. Fu and H. R. Tzuoo (Puli), M. HREBLAY (Érd), B. HERCZIG (Tata), GY. M. LÁSZLÓ (Csákvár), S. T. KOVÁCS (Szeged), G. CSORBA, GY. FÁBIÁN, L. PEREGOVITS and G. RONKAY (Budapest). The research was supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA grant No. 16465).