Miscellaneous Genera VI
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Eubryopterella Roepke

Type species: vaneeckei Roepke, Sulawesi.

The addition of the two species described below extends the known range of this genus to Sundaland. All three species have very similar facies of rather obscure, narrow and irregular fasciation and variegation in brownish or bluish grey, more clearly defined and elaborate on the forewing, though this situation is reversed on the more simply fasciated underside. The male antennae are densely fasciculate. The third segment of the labial palps is very short.

The male abdomen has the eighth tergite more strongly sclerotised in two lateral bands that are angled so as to be convergent or fused centrally and splayed as apodemes anteriorly. The sternite also has two longitudinal bands of sclerotisation with a weak corema in the lacuna between these; they arise from a narrowly sclerotised and bowed anterior margin that has long and slender lateral rods. This segment therefore could be interpreted as being of the framed, corematous type, but modified. The genitalia have the tegumen and vinculum (with saccus) rather elongate and narrow. The valves are elongate, narrow, oval to rectangular, with sacculus and costa terminating in blunt processes at approximately the centres of the dorsal and ventral margins. The juxta is a simple, squarish plate. The aedeagus vesica is broad with several lobes and areas of scobination.

The female has the ostium slightly recessed within the sternite of the seventh segment which is a bit shorter posteriorly than the tergite, the posterior corners of which are produced ventrally.

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