Ectropina, Vari, 1961

Triberti, Paolo, Staude, Hermann, Sharp, Ian & Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, 2024, Exploring the diversity of Gracillariidae (Lepidoptera) in South Africa: host plants, distribution, and DNA barcoding analysis, with the description of nine new species, Zootaxa 5529 (1), pp. 1-51 : 8

Key to the species of Afrotropical Ectropina

1. Forewing with apical fascia reduced to a short strigula, more or less arched; median fascia not interrupted (see pl. 5, figs. 2-4 in Vári 1961)........................................................................................ 2

- Forewing with apical fascia long and thin, straight; median fascia interrupted in the middle ( Fig. 5 ).. spirostachydis sp. nov.

2. Forewing unicoloured greyish-fuscous between the yellow fasciae (see pl. 5, fig. 3 in Vári 1961)................ citricula

- Forewing with ferruginous-brown fasciae between and beyond the yellow ones.................................... 3

3. Phallus sinuate; valva longer than broad (see pl. 54, fig. 2 in Vári 1961)................................ sclerochitoni

- Phallus strongly curved in the middle; valva shorter than broad (see pl. 54, fig. 1 in Vári 1961)................... ligata

Figures

FIGURES 1−6. Adults of South African Gracillariidae. 1, Caloptilia sp., Limpopo, Lekgalameetse N. R., A. & I. Sharp leg. 2, Caloptilia rhusina, Western Cape, Robberg Nature Reserve, S. Mecenero leg. 3, Macarostola noellineae, Limpopo, Hoedspruit, A. & I. Sharp leg. 4, Caloptilia cataractias, Limpopo, Hoedspruit, leg. A. & I. Sharp. 5, Ectropina spirostachydis sp. nov., Limpopo, Hoedspruit, A. & I. Sharp leg. 6, Graphiocephala barbitias, Gauteng, Tshwane, A. Sharp leg.