Revision of the fishfly genus Platychauliodes Esben-Petersen (Megaloptera: Corydalidae) endemic to South Africa
Author
Liu, Xingyue
Author
Price, Ben W.
Author
Hayashi, Fumio
Author
Yang, Ding
text
Zootaxa
2011
2909
1
13
journal article
46724
10.5281/zenodo.277782
7b44a09a-e536-4924-97bf-df9bd515ba8a
1175-5326
277782
Key to adults of
Platychauliodes
1. Antennae (
Figs. 7–8
) subserrate in male but filiform in female; male tenth tergum (
Fig. 16
) with distal half narrowly digitiformed and straightly directed posteriad; male tenth sternum (
Fig. 19
) with median plate posteriorly separated into a pair of round plates...........................................................................
P. capensis
Barnard
- Antennae filiform in both sexes; male tenth tergum (
Figs. 24
,
32
) with distal half acutely pointed and slightly curved inward; male tenth sternum (
Figs. 28
,
36
) with median plate separated into a pair of spoon-like lobes, which laterally bear a pair of accessory processes.................................................................................... 2
2. Forewing length 17.2–23.0 mm in male and
26.9–29.8 in
female; median plate of male tenth sternum with spoon-like lobes narrow (
Fig. 28
).....................................................................
P. pusillus
(McLachlan)
- Forewing length
25.9 mm
in male and 34.0–
40.5 in
female; median plate of male tenth sternum with spoon-like lobes broad (
Fig. 36
)...............................................................................
P. thornei
Barnard