Description of a new species of genus Epidaus Stål (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) from China, with a key to Chinese species
Author
Zhang, Wenjie
Author
Zhao, Ping
Author
Cao, Liangming
Author
Cai, Wanzhi
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Zootaxa
2010
2517
62
68
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.196168
78a7e9d6-b071-4a53-8cf3-7073f68759d4
1175-5326
196168
Key to the Chinese species of the genus
Epidaus
Stål
1. Pronotum with postero-lateral angles with short tubercles or short spines, median area of posterior lobe with two tubercles ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2
-. Pronotum with postero-lateral angles with long spines, median area of posterior pronotal lobe with two tubercles or spines............................................................................................................................................................................. 3
2. Posterior margin of each connexival segment light, female connexivum evenly extended ..................
E. nebulo
(Stål)
-. Fifth connexival segment totally puce in dorsal view, other segments light, female connexivum unevenly extended in rhomboid shape.............................................................................................................................
E. tuberosus
Yang
3. Scutellum except apical part black ................................................................................................
E. atrispinus
Distant
-. Scutellum light.............................................................................................................................................................. 4
4. Postocular part of head puce ......................................................................................................................................... 5
-. Postocular part of head yellow or reddish yellow......................................................................................................... 6
5. Body henna, clothed with dense white wax spots, female abdomen conspicuously extended bilaterally .....................
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E. famulus
(Stål)
-. Body filemot, without wax spots, female abdomen slightly extended .............................................
E. sexspinus
Hsiao
6. Head, pronotum, scutellum reddish yellow .......................................................................................
E. bicolor
Distant
-. Head, pronotum (except transverse strip), scutellum canary or beige..........................................................................7
7. Posterior pronotal lobe without black transverse band near posterior margin, with only four long black spines..........
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E. insularis
sp. nov.
-. Posterior pronotal lobe with only black transverse band near posterior margin
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E. longispinus
Hsiao