Dilobinae

8. Dilobinae View in CoL View at ENA , originally established as a monotypic family for Diloba caeruleocephala (Linnaeus) , later placed in Notodontidae by Nye (1975) and Carter (1982), but subsequently transferred to Noctuidae by Minet (1983). Raphiinae were later synonymized under it by Fibiger et al. (2009). Adults of Dilobinae are medium-sized; males have bipectinate antennae, females filiform. The labial palpi are short, porrect, and tufted downward; the proboscis is reduced; eyes are naked, and ocelli are absent in Diloba Boisduval or minute in Raphia Hübner. The ground colour is generally brownish-grey with marked orbicular and reniform stigmata in Diloba ; hindwing vein M2 is well developed. Tympanal bullae are fused laterally in Diloba and narrowly separated but dorsally connected in Raphia . Male genitalia are characterized by a basolaterally expanded, plate-like uncus, a partly sclerotised subscaphium, plate-like tegumen, V-shaped vinculum and saccus, elongate valvae, a straight, short aedeagus, and a dorsally projecting vesica with minute spiniform cornuti. Female genitalia show a broad ovipositor, long apophyses, a wide ostium bursae, sclerotised antrum, and a saccate corpus bursae with spicules but no signa The subfamily is predominantly Holarctic and currently comprising 12 species in two genera ( Fibiger et al. 2009, Keegan et al. 2021).