Pseudohemihyalea Schmidt 2009
Creators: name: Schmidt, Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Arctiidae
Pseudohemihyalea

description: Key to species of the <i>Pseudohemihyalea ambigua</i> species-group 1 Forewing posterior cubital vein and anal vein with separate brown striae; forewing with prominent hook-like mark at distal end of discal cell (fig. 3); male forewing length less than 20 mm, female less than 22 mm; uncus of male with basal lobes flattened and raised dorsally, basally with broad, ushaped cleft (fig. 13)................................................................. <b> <i>P</i>. <i>fallaciosa</i></b> – Forewing posterior cubital vein and anal vein with confluent, broad brown striae; forewing with hook-like mark at distal end of discal cell small or absent (figs. 1,2,4,5); male and female forewing length variable; uncus of male with basal lobes globose (Figs. 11, 12, 14, 15).................................................... <b>2</b> 2 Male forewing length greater than 25 mm, female greater than 28 mm; uncus length more than 1.7 mm (Figs. 14, 15); corpus bursae length more than 3 mm and about 3 x diameter of bulla seminalis (fig. 22)............................... <b>3</b> – Male forewing length less than 25 mm, female less than 28 mm; uncus length less than 1.7 mm (Figs. 11, 12); corpus bursae length less than 3 mm and about 1-1.5 x diameter of bulla seminalis (Figs. 21, 23).............................. <b>4</b> 3 Male valve elongate, approximately 3 x as long as wide (fig. 9); vesica with thin, spine-like cornuti (fig. 20), uncus widest at basal fourth (fig. 15); hindwing with distinct pink flush; northern Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico....................................................................................................... <b> <i>P</i>. <i>sonorosa</i></b> – Male valve broad, approximately 2 x as long as wide (fig. 10); vesica with small, stout cornuti (fig. 19), uncus widest at basal third (Fig. 14); hindwing with faint pink flush; Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico (females unknown)............................................................................................................ <b> <i>P</i>. <i>potosi</i></b> 4 Male uncus long and narrow in dorsal aspect, averaging 2.4 x longer than wide, with basal cleft narrow (fig. 12); saccular process about as long as wide (fig. 7); lateral margins of female lamella antevaginalis parallel or flaring outward towards caudal margin, with caudal concavity broad, <i>i</i>. <i>e</i>. more than 2 x width of ductus bursae; southern Mexico to Honduras.................................................................................................................. <b> <i>P</i>. <i>syracosia</i></b> – Male uncus broad in dorsal aspect, averaging 1.8-2.0 x longer than wide, with basal cleft broad and relatively shallow, <i>i</i>. <i>e</i>. ¼ or less the width of uncus (fig. 11); width of saccular process at base approximately equal to process length (fig. 6); lateral margins of female lamella antevaginalis tapering inwards to caudal margin, with caudal concavity narrower, <i>i</i>. <i>e</i>. less than 2 x width of ductus bursae (fig. 21); western USA south through Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico................................................................... <b> <i>P</i>. <i>ambigua</i></b>
description: Published as part of <i>Schmidt, Christian, 2009, Revision of the " Aemilia " ambigua (Strecker) species-group (Noctuidae, Arctiinae), pp. 63-78 in ZooKeys 9 (9)</i> on page 69, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.9.149, http://zenodo.org/record/576452