Meleonoma puncticulata Wang 2020
Creators: name: Zhu, Xiaoju
name: Wang, Shuxia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Cosmopterigidae
Meleonoma
Meleonoma puncticulata

description: Key to species of the puncticulata species-group based on male genitalia
1 Valva with two processes on ventral margin (Fig. 21)........................................ M. biprocessa sp. nov.
- Valva without a process on ventral margin.................................................................. 2
2 Valva with a short ventroapical spine (Fig. 24).............................................. M. globulosa sp. nov.
- Valva without such a spine.............................................................................. 3
3 Valva with one or two spines on ventral margin............................................................. 4
- Valva without a spine on ventral margin................................................................... 5
4 Valva with a spine on ventral margin, sacculus with two stout horn-shaped apical processes (Fig. 27)... M. unijugata sp. nov.
- Valva with two spines on ventral margin, sacculus with a semielliptical apical process (Zhu et al. 2020: Fig. 35).................................................................................................. M. robustispina
5 Sacculus bilobed distally (Fig. 23)...................................................... M. dilatilobata sp. nov.
- Sacculus not bilobed distally............................................................................ 6
6 Ventral margin of valva without an ovate setose pad.......................................................... 7
- Ventral margin of valva with an ovate setose pad........................................................... 10
7 Cornutus absent...................................................................................... 8
- Cornutus present...................................................................................... 9
8 Uncus slenderly elongate (Fig. 20)..................................................... M. basitriangula sp. nov.
- Uncus conical (Zhu et al. 2020: Fig. 33)............................................................ M. conica
9 Cornutus being a large spine, saccus as long as uncus (Zhu et al. 2020: Fig. 34)........................ M. puncticulata
- Cornuti being a narrow row and a large patch of spines, saccus shorter than uncus (Fig. 26)............ M. sinuata sp. nov.
10 Aedeagus with several spines........................................................................... 11
- Aedeagus with a spine (Fig. 25)........................................................... M. prospina sp. nov.
11 Valva right-angled at basal 1/4 on ventral margin (Wang 2006b: Fig. 216)................................. M. leishana
- Valva not angled on ventral margin...................................................................... 12
12 Apex of sacculus with a sub-digitate process (Fig. 22)..................................... M. curvicornuta sp. nov.
- Apex of sacculus with a rectangular plate (Wang 2006a: Fig. 15).......................................... M. sticta
description: Published as part of Zhu, Xiaoju & Wang, Shuxia, 2022, Taxonomy of the genus Meleonoma Meyrick, 1914 (Lepidoptera: Autostichidae) from China (IV), with descriptions of twelve new species, pp. 501-521 in Zootaxa 5087 (4) on page 509, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5087.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5832792