Pyroderces

Zhang, Zhiwei & Li, Houhun, 2009, The genus Pyroderces Herrich-Schäffer new to China, with description of a new species (Lepidoptera, Cosmopterigidae), Zootaxa 2272, pp. 63-68 : 64

Key to the species of Pyroderces of China

1. Labial palpi smooth, forewings with several streaks extending along veins distally; pleural lobes of male eighth segment elongate; valvae with setose basal lobes ............................................................................................................ 2

– Labial palpi with rough scaling on anteroventral surface of second segment, forewings without streaks along veins distally; pleural lobes of male eighth segment rounded; valvae without basal lobes ........ P. argyrogrammos (Zeller)

2. Forewings with a longitudinal white line along upper margin of cell; male left brachium rodlike distally, manica blunt at apex ........................................................................................................................... P. sarcogypsa (Meyrick)

– Forewings without longitudinal white line along upper margin of cell; male left brachium bifurcated distally, manica acuminate at apex .......................................................................................................................... P. bifurcata sp. nov.