Rhopalovalva
Creators: name: Zhang, Aihuan
name: Bai, Xia
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Tortricidae
Rhopalovalva

description: Key to Chinese species of Rhopalovalva based on male genitalia
1. Cucullus without a pollex ventrally...................................................................... 2
- Cucullus with a pollex ventrally......................................................................... 5
2. Uncus absent; socii fused, with few hairs on termination laterally................................. R. connata, sp. nov.
- Uncus present; socii paired, separate, hairy................................................................ 3
3. Uncus somewhat Y-shaped; cucullus somewhat triangular................................ R. triangulata Zhang & Li
- Uncus club-shaped; cucullus not triangular................................................................ 4
4. Cucullus conspicuously larger than base of valva, nearly orthogonal dorsally and blunt ventrally; socius about 2.5 times as long as uncus......................................................................... R. macrocuculla, sp. nov.
- Cucullus about as large as base of valva, somewhat rhomboid; socius about twice as long as uncus.. R. rhombea Zhang & Li
5. Pollex on cucullus spine shaped......................................................................... 6
- Pollex on cucullus not spine shaped...................................................................... 7
6. Socius longer than uncus; sacculus angle with a slender hairy lobe; valva deeply concave ventrally.................................................................................................... R. catharotorna (Meyrick)
- Socius nearly as long as uncus; sacculus angle with a broad and very short hairy lobe; valva straight ventrally.................................................................................................. R. pulchra (Butler)
7. Socius ovate; cucullus with a short clubbed pollex ventrally.................................... R. ovata Zhang & Li
- Socius digitate, long and narrow; cucullus with a slender pollex ventrally........................................ 8
8. Uncus with slightly broader termination; socius about as long as uncus...................... R. orbiculata Zhang & Li
- Uncus with pointed termination; socius conspicuously longer than uncus........................................ 9
9. Sacculus angle with a broad, short, hairy lobe, dilated apically; cucullus with a slender club-shaped pollex................................................................................................ R. lascivana (Christoph)
- Sacculus angle with a slender hairy lobe, not dilated apically; cucullus with a slender digitate pollex................. 10
10. Cucullus with pollex dilated apically; sacculus angle with a slightly broadened lobe gradually narrowed distally........................................................................................... R. grapholitana (Caradja)
- Cucullus with pollex not dilated apically; sacculus angle with a slender lobe not narrowed distally.. R. exartemana (Kennel)
description: Published as part of Zhang, Aihuan, Bai, Xia & Li, Houhun, 2017, Descriptions of two new species of Rhopalovalva Kuznetzov, 1964 (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) from China, pp. 114-118 in Zootaxa 4231 (1) on page 115, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4231.1.8, http://zenodo.org/record/293593