Ypsolopha mucronella
Creators: name: Jin, Qing
name: Wang, Shuxia
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Plutellidae
Ypsolopha
Ypsolopha mucronella

description: Key to species of Ypsolopha mucronella -group based on external characters
1. Forewing lanceolate, with four ocherous brown lines (Fig. 38)........................................... Y. longa
- Forewing not lanceolate, without ocherous brown lines...................................................... 2
2. Forewing with a streak at middle........................................................................ 3
- Forewing without streak at middle....................................................................... 6
3. Streak on forewing dark brown, broadened and darkened from base to apex (Fig. 37)................... Y. nigrofasciata
- Streak on forewing light-coloured, not broadened or darkened to apex.......................................... 4
4. Streak on forewing extending from base to middle (Fig. 34)......................................... Y. albistriata
- Streak on forewing extending from base to apex............................................................ 5
5. Streak on forewing yellowish white, not well-defined (Fig. 35)......................................... Y. strigosa
- Streak on forewing white, well-defined (Fig. 36).......................................... Y. paristrigosa sp. nov.
6. Forewing with streak on costa.......................................................................... 7
- Forewing without streak on costa....................................................................... 11
7. Streak on costa golden yellow.......................................................................... 8
- Streak on costa white................................................................................ 10
8. Streak on costa narrow, longer than half length of forewing................................................... 9
- Streak on costa wide, shorter than half length of forewing (Ponomarenko & Zinchenko 2013: Fig. 2)........ Y. costibasella
9. White stripe below fold extending to below apex (Fig. 42)........................................... Y. ulingensis
- White stripe below fold extending to 2/3 of fold (Fig. 47)..................................... Y. triangula sp. nov.
10. Streak extending to 1/2 length, fold with a black dot at middle (Fig. 40)........................... Y. umbrina sp. nov.
- Streak extending to distal 1/5, fold without dot (Fig. 39)................................................ Y. saitoi
11. Forewing with pale streak along dorsum................................................................. 12
- Forewing without pale streak along dorsum.............................................................. 16
12. Forewing with black dot below fold.................................................................... 13
- Forewing without dot below fold....................................................................... 15
13. Head, thorax and dorsum of forewing white (Fig. 44)......................................... Y. capitalba sp. nov.
- Head, thorax and dorsum of forewing not white........................................................... 14
14. Forewing with a short white line at end of cell (Fig. 46)............................................... Y. falcella
- Forewing without such a line as above (Fig. 45)..................................................... Y. yasudai
15. Head, thorax and dorsum of forewing yellowish white (Fig. 41)........................................ Y. dentella
- Head, thorax and dorsum of forewing gray or pale grayish brown (Fig. 43)...................... Y. varidentella sp. nov.
16. Forewing golden yellow, without strips along veins (Fig. 48)...................................... Y. aurea sp. nov.
- Forewing not golden yellow, with strip along veins........................................................ 17
17. Forewing with white strips along veins.................................................................. 18
- Forewing with brown strips along veins................................................................. 20
18. Forewing pale green, with a black patch below middle of fold (Fig. 50)........................... Y. chlorina sp. nov.
- Forewing not pale green, with a small black dot below middle of fold......................................... 19
19. Cell of forewing with black dot at middle on upper margin and at end respectively (Fig. 52)............ Y. bisticta sp. nov.
- Forewing without such dots as above (Fig. 49)..................................................... Y. blandella
20. Forewing with a large triangular black patch at end of cell (Fig. 53), CuA1 and CuA2 stalked (Fig. 102)........... Y. diana
- Forewing with a small black dot at end of cell (Fig. 51), CuA1 and CuA2 separated (Fig. 100)............... Y. nemorella
description: Published as part of Jin, Qing, Wang, Shuxia & Li, Houhun, 2013, Review of the genus Ypsolopha Latreille, 1796 from China (Lepidoptera: Ypsolophidae), pp. 1-91 in Zootaxa 3705 (1) on pages 38-39, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3705.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/284569