Clematoscenea Enderlein, 1907

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Clematoscenea Enderlein, 1907

Clematoscenea Enderlein, 1907: 115 . Type species: Psocus lemniscatus Enderlein, 1903 .

Cerastipsocus (Clematocenea) Kolbe, 1884 : Roesler, 1944: 147.

Clematoscenea Enderlein, 1907 : Smithers & Thornton, 1981: 929.

Diagnosis. Rs and M joined by a short crossvein, meet in a point, or fused for a short distance; apex of areola postica very narrow; cell m3 distinctly narrow and M 3 parallel to CuA 1 or almost so. Male hypandrium simple and usually with various spines near or on distal margin or not. Phallosome closed posteriorly usually with upturned extension of fused aedeagus. Female subgenital plate with short rounded egg guide, pigmented area roughly T-shaped, distally usually forked, transverse region of pigmented area laterally broadened.

Distribution. China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea.

Remarks. There are four species only known and described as male, i.e., C. biroi ( Enderlein, 1903) , C. goilala Smithers & Thornton, 1981 , C. gressitti Smithers & Thornton, 1981 and C. spinosus Liu et al., 2013 , and three species only known and described as female, i.e., C. newi Smithers & Thornton, 1981 , C. pulchra Smithers & Thornton, 1981 and C. smithersi Endang & New, 2010 . Therefore, the key based on male characters includes 14 species, while that based on female characters includes 13 species.