Eadmuna Schaus, 1928

Laurent, Ryan A. St & Kawahara, Akito Y., 2019, Reclassification of the Sack-bearer Moths (Lepidoptera, Mimallonoidea, Mimallonidae), ZooKeys 815, pp. 1-114 : 12-13

Eadmuna Schaus, 1928 Figs 8, 45, 85, 86

Type species.

Cicinnus esperans Schaus, 1905.

Diagnosis.

Combination of the following characters: silvery-gray or brown ground color, forewing with hyaline or sub-hyaline patch bisected by the M2 vein; dorsal postmedial line incomplete, formed by brown crescents between veins; the presence of smooth wing margins without a sharply falcate forewing apex.

Apomorphies.

Combination of the following characters: (1) Uncus clearly differentiated from tegumen as separate smaller structure (Fig. 8a) compared to single elongate triangular uncus + tegumen with little differentiation between these parts; (2) Triangular transtilla or valva apodeme (of uncertain homology) extensions finely wrinkled along their length (Fig. 8b); (3) Vesica with distinct cornutus (which itself may be formed by many cornuti fused into one) or scobinate patch (Fig. 8c).

Remarks.

St Laurent et al. (2018a) did not include this genus in their phylogeny and instead placed this genus in Mimalloninae based on morphology, due to clear similarities to the genus Macessoga , a genus that was included. Our ongoing molecular work, which includes broadened taxon coverage of Mimallonidae , including Eadmuna , fully supports this placement (St Laurent et al. in prep.). Additionally, all of our morphological phylogenetic results consistently place Eadmuna as sister to Macessoga (Fig. 1, see also Suppl. materials 5-7), therefore confirming the placement of this genus in Mimalloninae.