Key to genera occurring in Africa (adapted from Yoshiyasu, 1985) 1. Hindwing without black terminal eyespots.................................................................. 2 - Hindwing with black terminal eyespots................................................................... 6 2 (1). Labial palpus long, porrect.................................................................... Paracymoriza - Labial palpus moderate in length, upturned................................................................. 3 3 (2). Wings rather broad; hindwing with Sc + R 1 short stalked with R S (½ or a little shorter than Sc + R 1); female genitalia with corpus bursae short or moderate in length............................................................ Elophila - Wings elongate; hindwing with Sc + R 1 long stalked with R S (over ½ length of Sc + R 1); female genitalia with corpus bursae long................................................................................................ 4 4 (3). Hindwing with M 3 present.............................................................................. 5 - Hindwing with M 3 absent................................................................ Eoophyla (partim)* 5 (4). Male hind leg without dilation on tibia, corpus bursae of female genitalia with a pair of signa................. Parapoynx - Male hind leg with dilation on tibia, corpus bursae of female without signa............................ Argyrophorodes 6 (1). Small species wingspan <14mm, uncus of male genitalia long and slender........................................ 7 - Species of variable size, 10–30mm, uncus of male moderate................................................... 8 7 (6). Forewing and hindwing with medial area densely covered with fuscous scales............................ Nymphicula - Wings with pattern, hindwing with crosslines and lunule........................................... Paracataclysta 8 (6). Veins R 3 and R 4 of forewing stalked............................................................... Cataclysta - Veins R 3 and R 4 of forewing fused................................................................. Eoophyla * Eoophyla nymphulalis and E. leucostrialis lack terminal eyespots of the hindwing and in E. leucostola, E. nigerialis and E. nyasalis they can become obsolete.

Published as part of Agassiz, David J. L., 2012, The Acentropinae (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae) of Africa, pp. 1-73 in Zootaxa 3494 on page 9, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3494.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6380783