Saccharodite

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 180-181

Key to the species of Saccharodite from the Solomon Islands

1. Forewings with basal median cell more than twice as wide as basal cell between Sc+R and M ( Fig. 334f)..................................................................................... Sa. obrieni sp. nov. (ungrouped), p. 172

- Forewings with basal median cell about as wide or nearly as wide as basal cell between Sc+R and M (e.g. Fig. 279f)....... 2

2. Forewings with apical crossveins and short sections of adjoining main veins bright red and conspicuously lined with infuscation, remaining veins stramineous............................... Sa. rubilineata sp. nov. ( Sa. guamana group), p. 136

- Forewings not coloured in this way....................................................................... 3

3. Most parts of head and body dark red to reddish brown................ Sa. purpurea sp. nov. ( Sa. guamana group), p. 135

- Head and body stramineous or with orange marks............................................................ 4

4. Forewings glassy, uniformly light yellowish brown, without traces of infuscations, veins of same coloration.............................................................................. Sa. vitrea sp. nov. ( Sa. guamana group), p. 137

- Forewings slightly powdered, with patches of infuscation (may be faint); some or most vein sections orange or orange-red... .................................................................................................... 5

5. Many sections of forewing veins bright orange-red, more than half of Sc, R, and M coloured; frons and other parts of body may be orange or orange-red................................................................................ 6

- Few sections of forewing veins orange or orange-red, less than half of Sc, R, and M coloured; frons stramineous................................................................ Sa. basipunctulata (Melichar) ( Sa. guamana group), p. 128

6. Forewings with hind margin around clavus tip orange-red; usually most veins on hindwings orange-red............................................................................... Sa. dionaea sp. nov. ( Sa. guamana group), p. 129

- Forewings with hind margin along clavus stramineous; veins on hindwings colourless, but apical margin and tip of R red................................................................. Sa. insulana sp. nov. ( Sa. guamana group), p. 131