Eugoa Walker, 1858

Bayarsaikhan, Ulziijargal, Bucsek, Karol & Bae, Yang-Seop, 2018, A review of the genus Eugoa Walker (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae, Lithosiini) in Cambodia, with the description of a new species, Zootaxa 4403 (3), pp. 469-494 : 470

Genus Eugoa Walker, 1858

Eugoa Walker, 1858 , List. Spec. lepid. Insects Colln. Br. Mus. 12: 768. TS: Eugoa aequalis Walker, 1858 . TL: Borneo.

Hectogama Meyrick, 1889 , Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1889: 465. TS: Hectogama dissozona Meyrick, 1889 . TL: New Guinea.

Adult. Forewing gray or white, with typical transversal fasciae in black, gray and brown and usually with one or two dark discal dots. All forewing veins present, with three bifurcate systems: R3 & R4, R5 & M1, and M2 & M3. Hindwing often creamy white.

Male genitalia. Valvae sometimes with a saccular process, frequently with a zone of setae directed to costa; in a few species tegumen shouldered or bearing processes; aedeagus often convolute, but not elongate except diverticulum, and cornutus present or not.

Female genitalia. Ductus bursae extremely short, often broad; corpus bursae usually spinous or scobinate; sometimes with a long appendix bursae, often spinous ( Holloway 2001; Černý & Bucsek 2014; Kirti & Singh 2016).

Remarks. Bucsek (2008) divided the genus Eugoa into 21 species˗groups, based on the genital structure, but authors did not arranged species following his proposal in this paper.

Distribution. Asia (from India through Nepal and China to Japan, the entire South-East Asia), Africa.