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Chrysoblephara Gen.
n.
Type species: chrysoteucta Prout.
This genus is erected for a species that, whilst showing several of the
general characters of the Myrioblephara group, cannot be associated
particularly with any one of the genera within it.
The male antennae are fasciculate, there is a weak fovea, and the setal
comb on sternite 3 is lacking. The fasciation is black on a fawn ground that is
extensively irrorated with orange. The postmedials and forewing antemedial are
punctate, the hindwing medial more continuous. The submarginals are strong,
zig-zag, with a distinct pale patch between them and the margin over M3 and CuA1
on both wings.
In the male there is only a single pair of coremata between segments 6
and 7 as in Myrioblephara, but the openings of these are subventral
rather than lateral. The uncus is bifid as in Necyopa Walker, but the
antennal and coremata characters are inconsistent with association with that
genus. The gnathus is weak. The juxta is narrow, strap-like. On the valves,
sclerotisation extends in a band along both the costa and the ventral margin,
the former giving rise to a coarsely setose lobe subapically from its ventral
edge, and the latter having a row of spine-like setae, directed distally, over
its distal third. The aedeagus has a cluster of cornuti as in some Myrioblephara
species.
The female genitalia have the ovipositor lobes short. The sterigma is
complex, pocket-like, the ductus short, the neck of the bursa broader, three
times as long, sclerotised, and the distal bulb having a transverse signum
typical of the Myrioblephara complex. Spicules in this last suggest that
some of the smaller spines of the cornutus cluster in the male are deciduous.
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