Generic positions of Phymatocera foveata Wei, 1998 and Phymatocera sinica Wei, 2002

According to the original descriptions of Phymatocera foveata Wei, 1998 and Phymatocera sinica Wei, 2002 (Nie & Wei 1998, Wei, 2002), those species lack an epicnemium and have a membranous-bottom pit in the genal orbit and short setae on the male flagellum. Phymatocera has an epicnemium and does not have the combination of two characters, a genal-orbital pit and short male flagellar setae. The genus that has the combination of the three characters seen in those two species is Rhadinoceraea Konow, 1886 (see Smith 1969, Zhelochovtsev & Zinovjev 1988). Therefore, these two species should be transferred to Rhadinoceraea .