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Genus THERMONIPHAS Karsch 



Thermoniphas Karsch, 1895, Ent. Nachr. 21 : 303. Type-species : Thermoniphas plurilimbatus 



Karsch, by original designation. 

 Citpido Schrank (partim) ; Aurivillius, 1898 : 377 ; 1925 : 493. 



Eyes smooth ; palpi long, second segment laterally compressed, clothed below with long 

 erect white scales, third segment shorter, slender, acuminate, clothed with small black adpressed 

 scales, antennae slender, white annulated, longer than half the length of the costa, club flattened; 

 thorax clothed below with silky white hair ; <$ fore leg, tibia shorter than the femur, tarsus 

 unsegmented, clothed below with stiff hair. 



Wing shape. Fore wing subtriangular, outer margin convex ; hind wing oval, a short 

 filiform tail at the end of vein 2. 



Wing venation (Text-fig. 336). Fore wing with 1 1 veins ; 1 1 runs close to 12 and sometimes 

 touches it at one point. 



Fig. 206. Thermoniphas plurilimbala plurilimbata Karsch, <$ genitalia. 



Fig. 207. Thermoniphas micylus micylus (Cramer), <$ genitalia. 



