Alara

Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, Zootaxa 3071, pp. 1-307 : 29

Key to the species of Alara from New Guinea (males)

1. Forewings strongly infuscated........................................................................... 2

- Forewings white or faintly infuscated..................................................................... 8

2. Tips of tibiae dark red or reddish-brown................................................ A. armilla sp. nov., p. 18

- Tibiae uniformly stramineous or light brown................................................................ 3

3. Apical half of hind femora red, right side of apical part of male aedeagus with a slender, basal process (see Fig. 144n)..................................................................................... A. rubicunda sp. nov., p. 28

- Hind femora stramineous, male aedeagus without such a process................................................ 4

4. End of male aedeagus with two points or processes (see Figs. 126n and 145n), head and antennae usually bright red....... 5

- End of male aedeagus blunt or with one point (see Figs. 129o, 133o and 140o), head and antennae usually stramineous..... 6

5. Male aedeagus ending in two long, acute processes ( Fig. 126n)............................. A. armifera sp. nov., p. 18

- Male aedeagus ending in two short, broad and pointed processes ( Fig. 145n).................. A. schmidti sp. nov., p. 28

6. Apex of male aedeagus obliquely cut off, leaving a pointed tip on the left side ( Figs. 133o, s), rarely slightly rounded ( Fig. 133t)........................................................................... A. cultellus sp. nov., p. 21

- Apex of male aedeagus not obliquely cut off................................................................ 7

7. Length of eyes about one half of length of face in lateral view (from vertex to outer edge of subantennal process) ( Fig. 129a), lateral margins of vertex and face reddish brown....................................... A. cheesmani sp. nov., p. 19

- Length of eyes much less than half of length of face ( Fig. 140a); lateral margins of vertex and face stramineous............................................................................................. A. lingua sp. nov., p. 26

8. Tips of tibiae red.................................................................... A. anulus sp. nov., p. 17

- Tips of tibiae stramineous or grey ......................................................................... 9

9. A conspicuous red mark above eyes................................................... A. linigera sp. nov., p. 26

- No red mark above eyes.............................................................. A. frigida sp. nov., p. 22