Motaga Dworakowska, 1979

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Motaga Dworakowska, 1979

Motaga Dworakowska, 1979: 12

Type species: Motaga rokfa Dworakowska, 1979 , by original designation.

Description. Body small, gray to brown. Head narrower than pronotum. Eyes gray to black. Crown anterior margin angulately produced medially. Coronal suture distinct, but not extending to vertex. Face brownish, flat in lateral view. Frontoclypeal area long and slim, anteclypeus ovoid, lorum broad. Forewing semitransparent, with second apical cell narrowest, fourth apical cell not extended to tip of wing, about half length of third, AA and AP vein visible or not. Hind wing transparent, slightly smoky, RA vein absent, submarginal vein (av) developed.

Abdominal apodemes only present in sternite III or extending to sternite IV. Anal tube short, without appendage.

Pygofer well sclerotized, pygofer lobe with plenty of rudimentary setosity on distal half. Dorsal appendage articulated to lobe, narrow to broad, apex pointed and usually curved ventrad. Subgenital plate exceeding hind margin of pygofer side, broadened subbasally and narrowing towards middle, with row of macrosetae from subbase to middle near outer margin and row of microsetae along outer margin, several rows of short cylindrical setae on subbasal convex part. Style with foot-like or truncated apex, preapical lobe developed. Connective Y-shaped, with manubrium broad and central lobe developed. Aedeagal shaft tubular or slightly compressed, usually with appendages, gonopore middle to subapical on ventral surface, dorsatrium well-developed, preatrium rudimentary, without preatrium processes.

Distribution: Oriental region.