Phaselia smettboi, Werner & Hausmann & Kostjuk & Wanke & Rajaei, 2023

Werner, Maria Johanna, Hausmann, Axel, Kostjuk, Igor, Wanke, Dominic & Rajaei, Hossein, 2023, Integrative taxonomic revision of the genus Phaselia Guenée, [1858] (Geometridae: Ennominae) in the Middle East and Central Asia, Zootaxa 5326 (1), pp. 1-66 : 16

P. smettboi sp. nov. vs. ( P. deliciosaria )

External characters (figs 27–32; 50–53). Forewing ground colour speckled with tiny light to dark grey-brown dots; antemedial line clearly zigzagged with rounded tips, all three teeth of similar length (ground colour with smooth dusty pattern; antemedial line irregularly zigzagged with acute tips, middle tooth longer than other teeth).

Male genitalia (figs 80–85; 103–105). Sacculus oval with many well-pronounced spines on the whole surface; aedeagus with claw-like curved cornutus, spinose plate-like cornutus short (sacculus triangular with less spines; aedeagus with a long, straight, unbent cornutus; spinose plate-like cornutus reduced or absent).

Female genitalia (figs 125–127; 140). Antrum narrow (antrum wide).