Noctuidae - Agaristinae - Eupseudomorpha

 

 

 

Eupseudomorpha Dyar

Edwardsia Neumoegen, 1880, Canad. Ent., 12:67.
Type species: Edwardsia brillians Neumoegen by monotypy.
NOTE - A junior synonym of Edwardsia Costa 1834. The objective replacement name is Eupseudomorpha Dyar 1893.

Euedwardsia Kirby, 1892, Synonymic Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Heterocera, 1:36.
Type species: Edwardsia brillians Neumoegen by monotypy for Edwardsia Neumoegen, 1880.
NOTE - Proposed as an objective replacement name for Edwardsia Neumoegen, 1880, a junior homonym of Edwardsia Costa, 1834. A junior homonym of Euedwardsia Grote 1882. The objective replacement name is Eupseudomorpha Dyar 1893.

Eupseudomorpha Dyar, 1893, Canad. Ent., 25:28.
Type species: Edwardsia billians Neumoegen by monotypy for Edwardsia Neumoegen 1880.
NOTE - An objective replacement name for Edwardsia Neumoegen, 1880, a junior homonym of Edwardsia Costa 1834.

Eupseudomorpha is a monotypic genus of the short grass prairie regions of north and central Texas and east-central New Mexico. The adult is a day flier and is on the wing in the spring. The moths is very striking with a pattern of white, rusty-red outer margin, orange reniform and orbicular marks, and strong black accenting on the veins. The large, deep brown-black hindwing is particularly striking. The combination of the unique pattern, the male and female pectinate antennae, and the three-pointed frontal process will immediately identify this genus and species. The sister genus of Eupseudomorpha is almost surely Psychomorpha. The two genera share the spring, day-flying habit, both have reduced eyes, and the males both have bipectinate antennae. The female genitalia are basically the same. There is a single discordant character, the structure of the vesica. The base of the vesica of Eupseudomorpha brillians has two denticulate straps arising from the end of the aedoeagal shaft. These straps are very similar to those found in other genera of the Agaristinae, e.g. Euscirrhopterus. These denticulate straps are absent in Psychomorpha. However the apex of the aedoeagal shaft in Psychomorpha has two projections that may be degenerate versions of these straps.

Included Species

Eupseudomorpha brillians