Urodeta
Creators: name: Prins, Jurate De
name: Sruoga, Virginijus
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Momphidae
Urodeta

description: Key to the species of Urodeta based on female genitalia*
1. Corpus bursae with signum............................................................................ 2
- Corpus bursae without signum......................................................................... 10
2. Both pairs of apophyses (anteriores and posteriores) present.................................................. 3
- Apophyses anteriores absent........................................................................... 8
3. Apophyses posteriores very short, about 4.5 times longer than wide (Sruoga & De Prins 2011, figs 42–49)...... U. bucera
- Apophyses posteriores long, more than 9 times longer than wide............................................... 4
4. Signum formed by weakly sclerotized plate with four large teeth in row (Kaila 2011, fig. 98).................. U. inusta
- Signum without four teeth in row....................................................................... 5
5. Ductus bursae not coiled, gradually broadened cephalically, almost smoothly continued to corpus bursae............... 6
- Ductus bursae coiled or not coiled, much narrower than corpus bursae.......................................... 7
6. Dorsal wall of antrum covered by small spines; ductus bursae with longitudinal folds; signum sickle-shaped (figs 6–10).............................................................................................. U. acinacella
- Dorsal wall of antrum without small spines; ductus bursae without longitudinal folds; signum not sickle-shaped (Koster & Sinev 2003, fig. 55)........................................................................ U. hibernella
7. Ductus bursae coiled, with internal spines; signum formed by one sickle-shaped spine and weakly sclerotized transverse plate covered with tiny spines (Sruoga & De Prins 2009, figs 41–43)...................................... U. falciferella
- Ductus bursae not coiled, without internal spines; signum formed by two weakly connected plates, each with a large spine and few smaller ones (figs 14–16)................................................................ U. quadrifida
8. Apophyses posteriores present, very short; ductus bursae not coiled............................................ 9
- Apophyses absent; ductus bursae coiled (Sruoga & De Prins 2011, figs 77–82).............................. U. talea
9. Signum formed by weakly sclerotized plate with four long teeth in row; corpus bursae without internal spines (Mey 2007, figs 30, 31).................................................................................... U. maculata
- Signum formed by oval sclerotized plate with one large and several small spines; corpus bursae with internal spines, arranged in rows of 3–8 ones (figs 24–28)................................................................ U. trilobata
10. Apophyses posteriores vestigial, apophyses anteriores absent (Kaila 2011, fig. 99)....... U. sp. reared from Terminalia sp.
- Apophyses posteriores and anteriores present............................................................. 11
11. Corpus bursae divided by narrow prolonged constriction into two parts (Sruoga & De Prins 2011, figs 29–32).... U. acerba
- Corpus bursae not divided............................................................................ 12
12. Corpus bursae narrow and long, about 4 times longer than wide (Sruoga & De Prins 2011, figs 21, 22)........ U. absidata
- Corpus bursae rounded............................................................................... 13
13. Antrum with strongly sclerotized longitudinal folds (Sruoga & De Prins 2009, figs 48, 49)................. U. spatulata
- Antrum without strongly sclerotized longitudinal folds..................................................... 14
14. Colliculum about 3 times longer than wide; antrum long and weakly sclerotized (Sruoga & De Prins 2011, figs 66–71)................................................................................................... U. faro
- Colliculum as long as wide; antrum short and strongly sclerotized (Sruoga & De Prins 2011, figs 85–88)....... U. tortuosa
description: Published as part of Prins, Jurate De & Sruoga, Virginijus, 2012, A review of the taxonomic history and biodiversity of the genus Urodeta (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae: Elachistinae), with description of new species, pp. 41-62 in Zootaxa 3488 on page 58, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.210188