Nechesia Walker

Type species: albotentata Walker.

Synonyms: Carmara Walker (type species subcervina Walker = albotentata), syn.  n.; *Gyrognatha *Hampson (type species atriceps Hampson = albotentata), syn. n.; *Zagira *Walker (type species acidaliaria Walker = albotentata), syn. n.
The above synonymy was indicated by Holloway (2008: 215) and is established formally here.

This monobasic genus shares a few features with Laspeyria but has facies and wing shape more as in the genera that follow. The postmedials are broken, irregular, white against a dark vinous grey, and are particularly conspicuous at the dorsum of the hindwing and less so on the forewing.

The male abdomen has the eighth segment of a framed corematous type similar to that of the next genus, with the sternite framing only a shallow pouch. The exterior of the valves, however, has a corematous bulge much as in Laspeyria, differing only in that it does not extend to the very base of the valves. The valves have processes associated with the base of the costa similar to those of Cerynea Walker.

The female genitalia have small, shallow pockets between the reduced apodemes and the ostium similar to those in some Laspeyria. The ductus bursae is unsclerotised basally, but is so laterally over its distal part, joining the neck of the corpus bursae where it is slightly coiled, with a narrow, tapering appendix bursae extending towards the ovipositor to give rise to the ductus seminalis. The distal part of the corpus bursae is an elongate oval, with two small scobinate signa subbasally.

The only species is described below.

Robinson et al. (2001) listed a Carmara species with Xylia (Leguminosae) as a host plant. This record was cited as from Bell (MS), but it has not been possible to relocate this text or to locate voucher material.