Rhotana latipennis Walker 1857
Creators: name: Zelazny, B.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Rhotana
Rhotana latipennis

description: Key to the species of the Rhotana latipennis species group (males)   
1. Forewings with apical cross-veins broadly lined with red or orange (e.g. Fig. 53)................................... 2  
- Forewings with apical cross-veins not broadly lined with red or orange, but last subcostal sector and surrounding areas may be red................................................................................................. 3  
 2. Forewings with first median sector also broadly lined with red (Fig. 53)................. R. mindanaoensis Zelazny, p. 77   
 - Forewings with first median sector not lined with red..................................... R. excelsa Melichar, p. 73   
3. Hindwing marks bearing one or two rounded white dots (e.g. Fig. 204g) or surrounding a white dot (Fig. 209g).......... 4  
 - Hindwing marks without white dots (e.g. Fig. 201g).......................................................... 7 4. Hindwings with a white dot between two adjoining dark marks (Fig. 209g)....................... R. trimaculata, p. 78   
- Hindwings a with white dot inside a dark mark (e.g. Fig. 204g)................................................ 5  
 5. Forewings brown, interrupted by numerous clear areas (e.g. Fig. 200f)........................ R. aperta sp. nov., p. 72   
- Forewings colourless or with faint infuscations, but not in clearly defined areas (e.g. Fig. 204f)........................ 6  
 6. Male aedeagus ending in two pointed processes (Fig. 204m)............................. R. holtmanni sp. nov., p. 74   
 - Male aedeagus without pointed processes (Fig. 205m).................................. R. kuncheriai sp. nov., p. 75   
7. Hindwings with large rounded marks, all or at least the 2 anterior marks merged together (e.g. Fig. 201g)................ 8  
- Anterior hindwing marks either separated (e.g. Fig. 203g) or elongated (e.g. Fig. 202g)............................. 10  
8. Male aedeagus with one or two pointed processes (e.g. Fig. 206m)............................................... 9  
 - Male aedeagus without pointed processes (e.g. Fig. 201m).................................. R. crassa sp. nov., p. 72   
 9. Margins of facial carinae orange-red, male aedeagus ending in two prominent processes, which are usually pointed (Fig. 206m, o).............................................................................. R. latipennis Walker, p. 76   
 - Margins of facial carinae stramineous, male aedeagus with one pointed process (Fig. 208m)....... R. sabaea sp. nov., p. 77   
10. Most veins in middle of forewings broadly lined with yellowish-brown infuscations, (Taiwanese species)............... 11  
- If light infuscations along veins in middle of forewings then these not yellowish, (outside Taiwan)................... 13  
 11. Hindwings with an anterior elongated and a posterior rounded dark mark (Fig. 207g)......... R. maculata Matsumura, p. 76   
- Hindwings with 3 rounded dark marks................................................................... 12  
 12. Forewings of males less than 5 mm long............................................ R. inorata Yang & Wu, p. 75   
 - Forewings of males more than 5 mm long.......................................... R. inoptata Yang & Wu, p. 75   
 13. Hindwing marks elongated (Fig. 202g)............................................. R. fuscofasciata Distant, p. 73   
- Hindwing marks rounded (e.g. Fig. 210g)................................................................ 14  
 14. Male aedeagus with a pointed process (e.g. Fig. 203m)................................. R. hirashimai sp. nov., p. 74   
 - Male aedeagus without a pointed process (e.g. Fig. 210m)................................. R. truncata sp. nov., p. 78
description: Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on pages 71-72