Cernotina Ross, 1938

Oláh, János & Johanson, Kjell Arne, 2010, Generic review of Polycentropodidae with description of 32 new species and 19 new species records from the Oriental, Australian and Afrotropical Biogeographical Regions 2435, Zootaxa 2435 (1), pp. 1-63 : 56

Cernotina Ross

Cernotina Ross, 1938: 136 .

Type species: Cernotina calcea Ross , original designation.

Diagnosis: Species in the genus Cernotina are unique in the family by the absence of a preapical foreleg spur, so the spur formula is 2,4,4. The maxillary palps each have subequal 1st and 2nd segments, each much shorter than the 3rd segment; the 3rd maxillary palp segment originates subapically on the lateral face of the 2nd segment. The forewings each have a closed discoidal cell and an open median cell, and apical forks 2, 4, and 5; the hind wings each have open discoidal and median cells and apical forks 2 and 5. The genus is restricted to the Neotropical and Nearctic Regions.