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Chrysograpta Hampson
Type
species: igneola Swinhoe.
This
monobasic genus resembles Pangrapta, but is slightly more robust, with
narrower forewings and a distinctive facies as described below. The labial palps
are upcurved as in Pangrapta. The male antennae are ciliate.
The male
abdomen has the eighth segment of the framed corematous type, though weakly
developed. The genitalia are simple, the valves tongue-like, without processes,
resembling those of the previous genus. There is a narrow, tapering saccus. The
aedeagus is broad, the vesica large but with only minor diverticula and very
weak scobination.
The
female genitalia have the eighth segment an unbroken ring, sparsely scaled
laterally and posteriorly. The ostium is between the seventh and eighth
segments, the former unmodified. The ductus bursae narrows from the ostium and
is slender, unsclerotised. The corpus bursae is elongate, ovate, with a slight
neck with the ductus seminalis arising from a small posteriorly directed
appendix to the ductus. The bursa is scobinate throughout.
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