Edosa crayella

Yang, Linlin, Wang, Shuxia & Li, Houhun, 2014, A taxonomic revision of the genus Edosa Walker, 1886 from China (Lepidoptera, Tineidae, Perissomasticinae), Zootaxa 3777 (1), pp. 1-102 : 28

The crayella -group

Diagnostic characters. This group is characterized by the forewing with a faint darker dot at the end of the cell; the vinculum ventrocaudal margin with a short medial process, the uncus with a broad fan-shaped base interrupted by traces of the uncus lobes, the uncus lobe fused in basal half, separated, membraneous and expanded in distal half, the valva with a large and stout basal flange or basal process, the small juxta reflexed anteriorly along inner surface of the vinculum, the stout aedeagus usually with dorsal cleft, and the short bulbus ejaculatorius almost as long as the aedeagus, not hypertrophied in subdistal and distal sections. The colliculum in the female genitalia usually comprises a pair of base-joined, paddle-shaped processes, and a very narrow second ring.

Remarks. Three Chinese species, E. bifurcata sp. nov., E. crayella Robinson, 2008 and E. orphnodes ( Meyrick, 1911) , are included in this group. Edosa violacella (Rebel, 1893) , E. talantias ( Meyrick, 1893) and E. pygmaeana ( Petersen, 1959) are similar to members of this group in having a large, stout basal flange, but we do not include them in this group because their uncus lobes seem different and the medial process is absent from the vinculum ventrocaudal margin.