Ypsolopha

Jin, Qing, Wang, Shuxia & Li, Houhun, 2013, Review of the genus Ypsolopha Latreille, 1796 from China (Lepidoptera: Ypsolophidae), Zootaxa 3705 (1), pp. 1-91 : 10

Ypsolopha vittella- group

Diagnosis. This species-group is characterized by the following characters: the labial palpus with the third segment longer or only sometimes slightly shorter than the second, the forewing neither produced nor falcate at apex, R4 and R5 separated, connate or short stalked, CuA1 from the angle and CuA2 from well before the angle, and the hindwing with M2 and M3 remote; the anellus usually developed, large and broad, densely covered with teeth or short setae, and the cornuti stout in the male genitalia; the antrum broad and cup-shaped, and the signum mostly with two ridges in the female genitalia.

This group consists of 22 species in China. Among them, 11 species are described as new and one is newly recorded for the Chinese fauna. The male genitalia of Y. japonica Moriuti and the female genitalia of Y. hebeiensis Yang are described for the first time.