Glaucocharis
Creators: name: Li, Weichun
name: Li, Houhun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Crambidae
Glaucocharis

description: Key to Glaucocharis species based on male genitalia
(excluding G. alatella, G. forcipella, G. m e l l i, G. ochronella, G. qujingella, G. spiculella, G. spinulella, G. taeniata)
1. Costa of valva without prong........................................................................... 2
- Costa of valva with prong............................................................................. 6
2. Gnathos protuberant distally........................................................................... 3
- Gnathos not protuberant distally........................................................................ 5
3. Juxta ovate, without accessory structure; cornuti longer than one third length of phallus (Wang et al. 1988: Fig. 87)............................................................................................... G. t a p h ro p h r a c t a
- Juxta U-shaped, with a Y-shaped accessory structure; cornuti much shorter than one third length of phallus............. 4
4. Gnathos with a rounded ventroapical protuberance; apex of valva rounded (Wang et al. 1988: Fig. 81)........ G. chelatella
- Gnathos with a nearly triangular ventroapical protuberance; apex of valva pointed (Bleszynski 1965: Pl. 33, Fig. 12).................................................................................................... G. ramona
5. Uncus much shorter than gnathos; gnathos without ventroapical spine; apex of valva truncate; juxta with two clusters of spines posterolaterally (Fig. 11)................................................................... G. brevis sp. n.
- Uncus nearly as long as gnathos; gnathos with ventroapical spines; apex of valva concave conspicuously; juxta without spine (Wang et al. 1988: Fig. 77)................................................................... G. himalayana
6. Costal prong reaching beyond middle of valva............................................................. 7
- Costal prong not reaching beyond middle of valva......................................................... 30
7. Costal prong reaching beyond apex of valva............................................................... 8
- Costal prong not reaching beyond apex of valva........................................................... 15
8. Valvae symmetrical.................................................................................. 9
- Valvae asymmetrical................................................................................ 13
9. Phallus with a long spinelike cornutus................................................................... 10
- Phallus without cornutus............................................................................. 11
10. Phallus without short spinelike cornutus (Fig. 14).......................................... G. grandispinata s p. n.
- Phallus with many short spinelike cornuti (Chen et al. 2003: Fig. 3)..................................... G. s e t a c e a
description: Published as part of Li, Weichun & Li, Houhun, 2012, Taxonomic revision of the genus Glaucocharis Meyrick (Lepidoptera, Crambidae, Crambinae) from China, with descriptions of nine new species, pp. 1-32 in Zootaxa 3261 on page 2, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213859