Glyphipterix
Creators: name: Liu, Tengteng
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Glyphipterigidae
Glyphipterix

description: Key to Glyphipterix species in mainland China based on superficial characters
1 Forewing with a notch on termen below apex.............................................................. 2
- Forewing without a notch on termen below apex............................................................ 14
2 Forewing with a large black patch distally.................................................................. 3
- Forewing without such a black patch distally................................................................ 5
3 Forewing with a transverse band before middle.............................................................. 4
- Forewing without a transverse band before middle (Diakonoff 1986: Pl. 15, Fig. 126)....................... G. carenota
4 Forewing with five costal streaks (Fig. 5)......................................................... G. magnatella
- Forewing with four costal streaks (Fig. 3)....................................................... G. liui sp. nov.
5 Forewing with a yellowish transverse band basally........................................................... 6
- Forewing without such a transverse band................................................................... 7
6 Forewing with a crescent metallic spot above tornus (Figs. 8−9)........................................ G. gemmula
- Forewing with a triangular metallic patch above tornus (Diakonoff 1986: Pl. 14, Fig. 119 1−2)............... … G. deliciosa
7 Forewing with three dorsal streaks (Fig. 6)....................................................... G. rhinoceropa
- Forewing with two dorsal streaks......................................................................... 8
8 Forewing with basal half and distal half differently colored..................................................... 9
- Forewing with distal half and basal half unicolorous......................................................... 11
9 Forewing with distal half bronze purple (Diakonoff 1986: Pl. 15, Fig. 130)........................... G. macrodrachma
- Forewing with distal half brownish yellow................................................................. 10
10 Forewing with outer margin of first dorsal streak well-defined, edged with darker scales (Arita 1987: Fig. 4).. G. semiflavana
- Forewing with outer margin of first dorsal streak ill-defined, not edged with darker scales (Fig. 4)................................................................................................. G. miniata continentalis ssp. nov.
11 Forewing with second dorsal streak more or less S-shaped (Fig. 2)........................... G. semicircularis sp. nov.
- Forewing with second dorsal streak nearly straight.......................................................... 12
12 Forewing with dark patch at distal end of lower margin of cell and beyond outer margin of cell respectively (Fig. 7) G. gamma
- Forewing without dark patch at distal end of lower margin of cell or beyond cell................................... 13
13 Abdomen silvery white dorsally (Diakonoff 1986: Pl. 16, Fig. 138)................................... G. chionosoma
- Abdomen gray dorsally (Diakonoff 1986: Pl. 16, Fig. 136)............................................ G. octatoma
14 Forewing with a black band extending from apex along termen to tornus (Figs. 11−13)................ G. nigromarginata
- Forewing without a black band from apex along termen to tornus............................................... 15
15 Forewing with a black stripe extending from middle of cell to tornus (Arita & Heppner 1992: Fig. 22)......... G. ditiorana
- Forewing without a black stripe extending from middle of cell to tornus......................................... 16
16 Forewing with two transverse bands, lower half of each broken into 2–3 spots........................... G. erebanassa
- Forewing without transverse bands....................................................................... 17
17 Forewing with five pure white costal streaks in both sex (Fig. 10)........................................ G. regula
- Forewing with two white costal dots in male and five white costal spots in female (Diakonoff 1986: Pl. 12, Fig. 101 1−2)................................................................................................... G. amseli
description: Published as part of Liu, Tengteng & Li, Houhun, 2014, Taxonomic study of the genus Glyphipterix Hübner (Lepidoptera: Glyphipterigidae: Glyphipteriginae) from Mainland China, pp. 1-25 in Zootaxa 3821 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3821.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286357