Gargela
Creators: name: Song, Shimei
name: Chen, Fuqiang
name: Wu, Chunsheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Gargela

description: Key to Chinese species of Gargela based on male specimens
1 Forewing with two or three black spots at marginal area ............................................................................................. 2
- Forewing with one black spot at marginal area ............................................................................................................ 3
2 Forewing with two black spots at marginal area. In male genitalia, aedeagus without cornuti ..... G. d ist igm a sp. nov.
- Forewing with three black spots at marginal area. In male genitalia, aedeagus with three cornuti ............................... ................................................................................................................................................ G. xanthocasis (Meyrick)
3 Forewing with the terminal of medial line expanding into a large patch at inner margin ............................................ 4
- Forewing with the terminal of medial line not expanding into a patch at inner margin............................................... 6
4 Aedeagus with one spine-like cornutus ..................................................................................... G. renatusalis (Walker)
- Aedeagus with a row of spine-like cornuti ................................................................................................................... 5
5 Gnathos hastated ............................................................................................................................ G. hastatela sp. nov.
- Gnathos not hastated ........................................................................................................................ G. hainana sp. nov.
6 Aedeagus without cornuti ............................................................................................................................................. 7
- Aedeagus with cornuti .................................................................................................................................................. 8
7 Costal arm shorter than valva ......................................................................................................... G. albidusa sp. nov.
- Costal arm as long as valva ................................................................................................................ G. minuta sp. nov.
8 Aedeagus with a row of spine-like cornuti ................................................................................................................... 9
- Aedeagus with one or four spine-like cornuti............................................................................................................. 11
9 Forewing silvery white; the middle of costal arm without the spine-like process ..................................................... 10
- Forewing fuscous; the middle of costal arm with a spine-like process ............................................ G. fuscusa sp. nov.
10 Forewing with two submarginal lines; the length of cornuti about 1/2 of aedeagus ...................... G. bilineata sp. nov.
- Forewing with one submarginal line; the length of cornuti shorter than 1/4 of aedeagus......... G. xizangensis sp. nov.
11 Aedeagus with four spine-like cornuti ................................................................................... G. quadrispinula sp. nov.
- Aedeagus with one spine-like cornutus ................................................................................................ G. furca sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Song, Shimei, Chen, Fuqiang & Wu, Chunsheng, 2009, A review of the genus Gargela Walker in China, with descriptions of ten new species (Lepidoptera: Crambidae, Crambinae), pp. 40-56 in Zootaxa 2090 on pages 41-42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.187477