Nosphistica Meyrick 1911
Creators: name: Yu, Shuai
name: Wang, Shuxia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Lecithoceridae
Nosphistica

description: Key to the Chinese Nosphistica species based on male genitalia
1 Uncus longer than median process of gnathos (Fig. 27)..................................... N. grandiunca sp. nov. - Uncus shorter than median process of gnathos.............................................................. 2 2 Valva widened distally................................................................................. 3 - Valva not widened distally.............................................................................. 6 3 Valva with apex as wide as base; juxta with lateral process sinuate (Fig. 19)........................... N. metalychna - Valva with apex narrower than base; juxta with lateral process straight........................................... 4 4 Juxta with lateral process longer than half length of juxta (Fig. 30)........................... N. albimaculata sp. nov. - Juxta with lateral process shorter than half length of juxta..................................................... 5 5 Juxta with lateral process triangular; uncus sub-pentagonal (Fig. 22)............................. N. abunda sp. nov. - Juxta with lateral process digitate; uncus semicircular (Fig. 18)........................................ N. acriella 6 Valva fusiform; aedeagus with a hooked protrusion apically (Fig. 26)............................. N. fusoidea sp. nov. - Valva not fusiform; aedeagus without such protrusion........................................................ 7 7 Valva subparallel..................................................................................... 8 - Valva slightly narrowed or produced to a narrow process distally............................................... 9 8 Juxta with lateral process shorter than 1/6 length of juxta (Fig. 28).................................... N. orientana - Juxta with lateral process slightly shorter than half length of juxta (Fig. 29)............................ N. paramecola 9 Valva produced to a narrow process distally; cornutus single.................................................. 10 - Valva slightly narrowed distally; cornuti more than one...................................................... 11 10 Juxta with lateral process digitate; aedeagus broad at base, narrowed to apex (Fig. 24)............... N. elliptica sp. nov. - Juxta with lateral process horn-shaped; aedeagus uniform (Fig. 25)................................... N. fenestrata 11 Uncus broad basally, narrowed distally; juxta with lateral process digitate (Fig. 21)........................ N. bisinuata - Uncus flabellate or rhombic........................................................................... 12 12 Uncus flabellate; juxta with lateral process sub-rectangular (Fig. 3)......................... N. subrectangula sp. nov. - Uncus rhombic; juxta with lateral process sub-triangular (Fig. 23).............................. N. apiculata sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Yu, Shuai & Wang, Shuxia, 2019, Taxonomic study of the genus Nosphistica Meyrick, 1911 (Lepidoptera Lecithoceridae) from China, with descriptions of seven new species, pp. 497-517 in Zootaxa 4664 (4) on page 500, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4664.4.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3386917