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Proneca Swinhoe Gen. rev.
Type species: fola Swinhoe, Burma.
This is another genus that has previously been associated with
Roeselia
Hübner (e.g. Hampson, 1900), but was treated as distinct by Poole (1989). The
tegulae, general coloration and venation are as in
Sarbena,
but the male genitalia have a larger, more acute uncus, a narrower, less robust
tegumen and vinculum, the latter with a small, nipple-like saccus. The valves are more simple, tongue-like, with a setose harpe that
terminates in a cluster of small, blunt spines. The saccular shield is rather
ring-like. The aedeagus is strongly curved.
The female genitalia resemble those of
Sarbena except the appendix bursae is more distal and the signa are closer
together, one vestigial.
The larva has similar features to that of
Sarbena,
as discussed below.
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