Polianae (Atropolia), Varga, Zoltan, Ronkay, Gabor & Ronkay, Laszlo, 2017

Varga, Zoltan, Ronkay, Gabor & Ronkay, Laszlo, 2017, Revised taxonomic check list of the Eurasiatic species of the subtribe Poliina (Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Hadenini), Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 64 (2), pp. 133-160 : 135

Subgenus Atropolia subgen. n.

Type-species.

Mamestra mortua Staudinger, 1888, here designated.

Diagnosis.

The two species of this subgenus are characterised by the most often unicolorous black or deep blackish-brown forewing ground colour and some unique structures of the male genitalia. The most conspicuous character of the male genitalia is the long, slightly falcate extension of the basal plate of the harpe-ampulla complex, superficially resembling the digitus of some not closely related groups. The saccular processes are relatively short and simple, slightly asymmetric with a brush of specialised setae on the right (on figures left) side. The vesica is helicoidal with a full coil; the distal section of the vesica is armed by a long stripe of fasciculate cornuti. In the female genitalia, the ductus bursae is strongly sclerotised and dorso-ventrally compressed, somewhat similar as in Ctenoceratoda species, however the appendix bursae is very different, relatively short, tubular.

Etymology.

The name is the amalgamation of the names Atropos and Polia .