Silba cupraria (de Meijere, 1910)

Silba cupraria belongs m a group of closely related species tJ
includes abstata McAlpine, albisquama Kertesz, consenantea (Walker), emuh
McAlpine, imitata McAlpme, lucens de Meijere, and taciturna (Walker). It is probably most closely related to emulata which also lacks a pair of secondary processes arising

between the aedeagus and the bases of the pregonites. All these species are rather small,
have a relatively short third antennal segment, with orange-brown base, brownishfumose
wings, and male genitalia with an elongate epandnum and very short cerci The
key following lucens, below, will separate the males of this group of species.