Acontia

Adult male: head dark brown with a circular pale patch on frons; palpi porrect, slightly longer than eye width, white basally shading to brown distally. Forewing broad, often with rounded apex; ground color dark creamy-white over basal half with pale brown transverse lines, splotchy brown and pale on remainder producing a mottled aspect; fringe a mixture of white, gray, and pale brown scales, with pale scales concentrated to form a patch near middle of wing and a smaller patch distal to reniform spot. Hindwing white, lacking fuscous marginal band. Middle leg: femur and tibia white with brown rings at femoral-tibial joint and near apex of tibia; femur, tibia, and tarsus brown with white ring in middle of tibia and at joints. Male genitalia: saccular process smooth, broad, somewhat spatulate apically, lying along dorsal margin of clasper; ampulla well-developed, setose; clasper usually weakly sclerotized except for spine-like apex. Female genitalia: ostium bursae elongate, sclerotized; ductus bursae tubular, membranous; corpus bursae oval, membranous, with ductus seminalis at anterior end; lower portion of tubular ductus bursae moderately sclerotized, length about 0.45× length of ovoid corpus bursae.

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