Ilema (Churingosia) nigripes (Hampson, 1900) Volynkin & Černý, 2022

Volynkin, Anton V. & Černý, Karel, 2022, Churingosia, a new subgenus of the genus Manulea Wallengren with descriptions of four new species from the Oriental realm (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae), Zootaxa 5205 (2), pp. 162-176 : 168

The M. (Churingosia) nigripes species group

Diagnosis. The species of the group are characterised by the uniform pale orange body and wings colouration with a slightly paler hindwing, combined with the blackish legs. In the male genitalia, the transverse medial lobe of the valva is heavily sclerotised and smooth, the distal carinal process is more elongate and basally thinner than in the M. chrysophleps species group, and the dorsal diverticulum of the phallus vesica is strongly elongate and bearing a cluster of spinulose scobination latero-apically. In the female genitalia, the gelatinous subostial pocket is slightly broader than the ostium bursae, and the posterior half of the ductus bursae has a sclerotised plate.