Nyctiophylax (Paranyctiophylax) pungens Morse, Zhong & Yang

Head grayish brown with yellowish antennae, pronotum light gray, meso- and metanota brown dorsally, yellowish lateroventrally with concolorous thoracic legs, forewings light brown. Length of body with folded forewings: 4.3–5.5 mm (n=15). Male genitalia. Tergum IX short, membranous, broadly rounded apically in dorsal view (Fig. 7C). Sternum IX relatively large, in lateral view (Fig. 7A) subtriangular, with short posterodorsal margins 1/3rd as long as ventral surface, anterolateral margins oblique and convex, especially subventrally, posterolateral margins nearly straight, vertical; in ventral view (Fig. 7B), posteromesal margin broadly and shallowly excised, anteromesal margin with short V-shaped excision. Tergum X fused laterally to tergum IX, represented as 2 small setose lateral lobes. Without obvious intermediate appendages. Preanal appendages slender, straight in lateral view (Fig. 7A), curved slightly caudad in dorsal view (Fig. 7C); each with long dorsal process curved caudolaterad, acute apically; its mesoventral process broad at basal 2/3rds, with acute apex hooked slightly ventrad and mesad beneath phallus. Inferior appendages each with acute posterior basoventral process half as long as main body of appendage; main body of appendage slender, setose, and acute apically. Phallus with phallobase sclerotized, broader apically, with pair of short sclerites dorsally, phallicata membranous, without internal spines.

Oriental Biogeographic Region, China (An-hui, Jiang-xi).