(after Horak and Brown, 1991)
Introduction
Ceracini (examples of male moths)
The Ceracini (about 30 species) are Himalaya-centred, extending into the Malay Archipelago and through Eastern Asia to Sakhalin, the coastal mountains north of Vladivostok and Japan. They deposit egg masses and their larvae are leafrollers and tiers, some very polyphagous and other restricted to Pinaceae.
DIAGNOSIS
Diagnostically important characters are given in italics
Adult
male genitalia Ceracini (explaining terms)
female genitalia Ceracini (explaining terms)
venation Cerace stipatana (explaining terms)
Adults large, brightly coloured, day-flying. Head small, smoothly scaled; labial palpus short, subascending ; antenna fasciculate-ciliate in male. Forewing elongate, often with notch at apex, without costal fold in male; red-brown to blackish, dotted with numerous spots, usually yellow ; chorda usually present; median stem present or absent; all veins separate. Hindwing with dark maculation; M2 distant from M3, R and M1 and M3 and CuA1 at most connate. Hind tarsal segments with row of bristles along apical margin. Male genitalia: uncus with brush of hair below apex; socii often large; valva without pulvinus; transtilla band-like or absent. Female genitalia: ostium funnel-shaped, sclerotized and fused with sternite 7; only lamella postvaginalis connected with ventral arms of anterior apophyses ; signum, if present, a serrate plate.
Larva
setal map (showing position of setae. Note: example is not a ceracine larva)
Anal fork present, crochets triordinal; D setae and SD setae arranged more or less vertically on meso- and metathorax; SD2 on A1-8 either on separate pinaculum (Eurydoxa advena) or on SD1 pinaculum (Cerace xanthocosma) ; D1, SD and each of the D setae on separate pinaculum on A9; SV group on A1, 2, 7. 8 and 9 is 3:3:3:2:2.
Pupa
E. advena pupa
Cerace xanthocosma; Eurydoxa advena : without dorsal spines and not extruded at emergence; cremaster long, with knife-shaped setae.
Genera including pests
Bathypluta
Cerace
Eurydoxa