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Quadrasura
Gen. n.
Type species: ktimuna van
Eecke.
The only species in this
genus has a pale yellow ground colour, and the rather elongate, narrow forewing
has a series of oblique, irregular, poorly defined orange fasciae and a slightly
darker discal spot. The male antennae are fasciculate. The venation is typical
of the Asura/Miltochrista complex, but the cell is more distant from Sc
which does not anastomose with R1.
The male genitalia have a
prominent triangular central costal process as in Barsine Walker, but
there is no apical process. The sacculus has a strong, upcurved apical process.
The tegumen is extended dorsally into ‘wings’ on each side of the uncus, and
the saccus is broad, truncate, giving the whole ninth segment a rectangular
appearance. The aedeagus is short, the vesica reflexed, finely scobinate
throughout, with none of the coarser spines and large cornuti seen in other
genera of the complex, though there is an irregular knob at the junction of the
aedeagus apex and the vesica.
Females are unknown.
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