3.5 Niphadoses Common, 1960 (Figs 5, 77, 87–88, 102)

Niphadoses Common, 1960 . Austr. J. Zool., 8(2): 330. Type species: Niphadoses palleucus Common, 1960, by original designation.

Diagnosis. The genus can be diagnosed by valva constricted from base to apex and gnathos obviously short.

Description. Head with frons little protruded; proboscis reduced; antennae weakly serrated in male and filiform in female; labial palpi porrect, the third segment about 1/3 as long as the second; maxillary palpi porrect, apex expanded. Female with anal tuft on the seventh abdominal segment.

Wings (Fig. 5). Forewing with Sc and R 1 closed or anastomosed; R 2 from upper angle of cell, closed to R 3+4; R 3 stalked with R 4, from upper angle of cell; R 5 from upper angle of cell; M 1 below upper angle of cell; M 2 and M 3 from lower angle of cell; Cu 1 and Cu 2 before lower angle of cell. Hindwing with Sc+R 1 and Rs stalked, more or less stalked with M 1 at base; M 2 and M 3 from lower angle of cell; Cu 1 and Cu 2 before lower angle of cell.

Male genitalia. Uncus with base broad and apex pointed; gnathos thin and short, with apex pointed; tegumen well developed, with sclerotized dorsal ridge X-shaped; subteguminal process well developed, little sclerotized; valva constricted from base to apex; juxta plate-like, apex curved in the central; coremata present; aedeagus slender, cornutus present; ductus ejaculatorius arising from middle of aedeagus.

Female genitalia. Anal papillae broad, covered with long setae; apophyses anterioris and posterioris slender; ostium bursae broad, membranous, wrinkled; ductus bursae membranous, relatively short, no longer than corpus bursae; ductus seminalis arising below ostium bursae; corpus bursae usually round.

Distribution. China, Australia, New Guinea.

Remarks. The genus comprises five species, including one species from China.