Noctuidae
- Cuculliinae - Cucullia |
Cucullia asteroides adult, male genitalia, and female genitalia External Tympanic Region Internal Tympanic Region North American Species of Cucullia asteris species group Cucullia
asteroides convexipennis
species group lucifuga species group speyeri species group Cucullia
speyeri antipoda species group Cucullia
antipoda luna species group strigata species group Cucullia
serraticornis pulla species group |
Cucullia
Schrank
Cucullia is a large genus of approximately 250 species
found almost exclusively in the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere
with the exception of a few species found in Africa. Despite the diversity
of the genus, its species are almost always characterized by their long
forewing with a pointed apex. The patagia are capable of being raised
into a pointed hat shaped "hood". In fact the generic name means
a hood or cowl. Not all specimens, however, have the hood raised when
the moth dies. The male genitalia are characterized by the presence of
one to three large spines in the vesica of the aedoeagus, each borne on
a diverticulum (or in some cases two on them borne on a bifid diverticulum)
and the female genitalia by the emergence of the ductus seminalis from
the cephalad or proximal end (bottom in the figures) of the bursa. If
my interpretation of the structure of the bursa normally found in the
"trifid" Noctuidae is correct, the bursa consists solely of
the appendix bursae and the corpus bursae is absent or represented by
a outpocketing of the bursae near its junction with the ductus bursae.
In interpreting the vesica of the aedoeagus, it is usually helpful to
take notes on the vesica just after it has been inflated, but before the
genitalia are mounted on a slide. The vesica, in many of the species,
is highly three deminsional and commonly shaped like a caltrop. Necessarily,
therefore, the vesica becomes distorted when put under a coverslip on
a slide. Plates |