The Ovipennis binghami species-group

Diagnosis. Species of this species-group are characterised by the limited sexual dimorphism. In the male genitalia, the species-group differs from the O. bicolora species-group in the slender, laterally flattened and apically pointed uncus (it is dorso-ventrally flattened and distally dilated in the O. bicolora species-group), the dentate distal section of the costa, the ventrally directed medial costal process, the unilobate and dorsally directed distal saccular process (it is bilobate and distally directed in the O. bicolora species-group), and the broader, sack-like phallus vesica bearing a single massive terminal cornutus (the O. bicolora species-group has patches of spiniform cornuti). In the female genitalia, the O. binghami species-group is characterized by the corpus bursae bearing a latero-posterior sclerotised pocket.

Species composition

O. binghami Hampson, 1903

O. sapa Volynkin, S. -Y. Huang, Černý & Saldaitis, sp. n.

O. thomasi Černý, 2009