Auroriana St Laurent & C. Mielke, 2016

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

Auroriana St Laurent & C. Mielke, 2016 Figs 7, 44, 78; Suppl. material 3: Plates 1, 2, 4, 6

Type species.

Auroriana colombiana St Laurent & C. Mielke, 2016.

Diagnosis.

Orange-brown ground color with diffuse pink coloration on all regions of wings, with a tornal notch on the forewing only, anterior margin of the hindwing smooth. Similarly colored brown and pink Mimallonidae have a notch on the anterior margin of the hindwing (though this may be weak) as well as a usually deeper notch on the forewing tornus, and/or the pink coloration is not suffused across the whole wing in these species, but rather clearly delimited by the postmedial line. For example, see Fatellalla gen. n. below, a similarly colored genus with more clearly distinct medial and submarginal pink coloration.

Apomorphy.

Distally downward curved, snake-like phallus (Fig. 7a; Suppl. material 3: Plate 6, 20:0).