Gargela

Song, Shimei, Chen, Fuqiang & Wu, Chunsheng, 2009, A review of the genus Gargela Walker in China, with descriptions of ten new species (Lepidoptera: Crambidae, Crambinae), Zootaxa 2090, pp. 40-56 : 41-42

Key to Chinese species of Gargela based on male specimens

1 Forewing with two or three black spots at marginal area ............................................................................................. 2

- Forewing with one black spot at marginal area ............................................................................................................ 3

2 Forewing with two black spots at marginal area. In male genitalia, aedeagus without cornuti ..... G. d ist igm a sp. nov.

- Forewing with three black spots at marginal area. In male genitalia, aedeagus with three cornuti ............................... ................................................................................................................................................ G. xanthocasis (Meyrick)

3 Forewing with the terminal of medial line expanding into a large patch at inner margin ............................................ 4

- Forewing with the terminal of medial line not expanding into a patch at inner margin............................................... 6

4 Aedeagus with one spine-like cornutus ..................................................................................... G. renatusalis (Walker)

- Aedeagus with a row of spine-like cornuti ................................................................................................................... 5

5 Gnathos hastated ............................................................................................................................ G. hastatela sp. nov.

- Gnathos not hastated ........................................................................................................................ G. hainana sp. nov.

6 Aedeagus without cornuti ............................................................................................................................................. 7

- Aedeagus with cornuti .................................................................................................................................................. 8

7 Costal arm shorter than valva ......................................................................................................... G. albidusa sp. nov.

- Costal arm as long as valva ................................................................................................................ G. minuta sp. nov.

8 Aedeagus with a row of spine-like cornuti ................................................................................................................... 9

- Aedeagus with one or four spine-like cornuti............................................................................................................. 11

9 Forewing silvery white; the middle of costal arm without the spine-like process ..................................................... 10

- Forewing fuscous; the middle of costal arm with a spine-like process ............................................ G. fuscusa sp. nov.

10 Forewing with two submarginal lines; the length of cornuti about 1/2 of aedeagus ...................... G. bilineata sp. nov.

- Forewing with one submarginal line; the length of cornuti shorter than 1/4 of aedeagus......... G. xizangensis sp. nov.

11 Aedeagus with four spine-like cornuti ................................................................................... G. quadrispinula sp. nov.

- Aedeagus with one spine-like cornutus ................................................................................................ G. furca sp. nov.