Leucoma Hubner 1822
Creators: name: Xie, Linzhe
name: Wang, Ming
name: Chen, Yusi
name: Wang, Houshuai
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Erebidae
Leucoma

description: A key to species of Leucoma Hübner in China
1 Forewings yellow brown......................................................................... L. sartus
- Forewings white or silvery white......................................................................... 2
2 Thorax with two dark dots or oblique lines................................................................. 3
- Thorax without dark dots or slashes....................................................................... 4
3 Hind tarsi white............................................................................... L. sericea
- Hind tarsi black............................................................................ L. melanoscela
4 Legs white, with black circles on tarsi..................................................................... 5 - Legs white, without black circles on tarsi.................................................................. 6
5 Main stem of antennae white, with black-brown stripes................................................ L. candida
- Main stem of antennae white, without black-brown stripes............................................... L. salicis
6 Forewings with a black edge at the basal area of costa................................................. L. costalis
- Forewings without black edges at the basal area of costa...................................................... 7
7 Frons with a black spot.......................................................................... L. niveata
- Frons without black spots............................................................................... 8
8 Forewings with silvery white bands....................................................................... 9
- Forewings without silvery white bands................................................................... 12
9 Forewing with three arcuate white oblique bands....................................................... L. clara
- Forewings with two or three parallel oblique bands......................................................... 10
10 Pectionations of antennae pale tawny.............................................................. L. impressa
- Pectionations of antennae dark brown.................................................................... 11
11 Vesica of aedeagus with four sclerotized digitate projections........................................... L. parallela
- Vesica of aedeagus without sclerotized digitate projections.......................................... L. chrysoscela
12 Left valva longer than right valva..................................................... L. nyingchiensis sp. nov.
- Left valva shorter than right valva....................................................................... 13
13 Labial palpi orange yellow...................................................................... L. ochripes
- Labial palpi white...................................................................... L. sichuana sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Xie, Linzhe, Wang, Ming, Chen, Yusi & Wang, Houshuai, 2022, Review of the genus Leucoma Hübner, 1822 (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Lymantriinae) from China, with description of two new species, pp. 361-380 in Zootaxa 5115 (3) on pages 362-363, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5115.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/6358370