Adult Abdomen Morphology
Ditrysian
Oviscapt (ovipositor):
piercing
Female genitalia description:
Oviscapt with a compressed, acute apex usually minutely serrated along ventral keel. Spermatheca without lateral lagena. Ductus and corpus bursae membranous, without spines or signa.
Female corethrogyne:
absent
Female pregenital sexual scales:
absent
Female oviduct opening:
in cloaca
Male coremata:
absent
Male pregenital sexual scales:
absent
Male genitalia description:
Uncus reduced, often bilobed; tegumen a moderate to narrow, dorsal band. Vinculum well developed with an elongate, broad to slender, V- to Y-shaped saccus. Valvae with 0-3 pairs of either sessile or pedunculate pectinifers; pectinifers absent in Adela, Cauchus, Nemophora, and some subgenera of Ceromitia. Juxta slender, sagittate. Aedoeagus an elongate tube; cornuti usually present. apex sometimes also armed with large, exogenous spines.
Sternum 5:
without fenestra
Sternum 5 gland:
absent
Adult abdomen description:
Anterior third of sternum 2 with a slender, U-shaped caudal rim; sternum 7 of female triangular to subrectangular, caudal margin rounded to slightly emarginate.
Male has:
phallotheca and aedeagus (phallus)
