Halone Walker, 1854

Bayarsaikhan, Ulziijargal, Bucsek, Karol, Cha, Yeong-Bin, Le, Xuanvi, Kwon, Hyung Wook & Bae, Yang-Seop, 2022, A new Halone Walker (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini) from Vietnam with establishing of a new combination, Zootaxa 5093 (3), pp. 385-391 : 386

Genus Halone Walker, 1854

Halone Walker, 1854 , List. Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln. Br. Mus. 2: 540. TS: Halone sobria Walker, 1854 . TL: Australia (Port Natal, Queensland).

Mosoda Walker, 1866 , List. Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln. Br. Mus. 35: 1899. TS: Mosada anartoides Walker, 1866. TL: Australia (Sydney).

Eurypepla Turner, 1922 , Proc. R. Soc. Vict. 35: 30. TS: Eurypepla pteridaula Turner, 1922 . TL: Australia (Maclntyre Range, Queensland Nat. Park).

Eurypeplella Hedicke, 1923 , Dt. Ent. Z. 1923 (2): 226. TS: Eurypepla pteridaula Turner, 1922 .

Mosada Turner, 1940, Proc. R. Soc. Qd. 51: 82. (missp.).

Diagnosis. Species of the genus can be recognized by the following external characters: (1) the ground color of forewing is creamy white or sordid white, with dark brown or pale brown markings or a large ochreous patch, and two dark discoidal spots or streaks; (2) the hindwing is pale gray, except for some Australian species having distinct, dark terminal band. In the male genitalia (for the Oriental species), the valva is very diverse, and the aedeagus is slender, strongly curved, with a vesica bearing irregular cornuti. In the female genitalia, the corpus bursae bears a signum in most species ( Černý & Pinratana 2009; Bucsek 2012, 2014; Bayarsaikhan et al. 2021).

Distribution. India ( Singh et al. 2014), Thailand ( Černý & Pinratana 2009), Laos ( Bae & Bayarsaikhan 2019; Bucsek 2020; Bayarsaikhan et al. 2021); Vietnam ( Bae & Bayarsaikhan 2019), Cambodia ( Bucsek 2012; Bae et al. 2016; Bae & Bayarsaikhan 2019), Malay Peninsula ( Bucsek 2012; 2014), Papua New Guinea ( Hampson 1914); Australia ( Edwards 1996; Hebert et al. 2013).