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99518797FFF8FFA744F7FD53FD85FD26.text	99518797FFF8FFA744F7FD53FD85FD26.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scymnus	<div><p>KEY TO SPECIES OF SCYMNUS OF MEXICO</p> <p>1. Pronotum yellow, red, orange, ocher or pale brown (Fig. 4).............................. 2</p> <p>1′. Pronotum black or dark brown, or at least with black basal spot (Figs. 1, 2, 3, 40).... 7</p> <p>2(1). Elytra totally or mainly yellow, ocher or pale brown (Figs. 1, 4)......................... 3</p> <p>2′. Elytra totally or mainly black or dark brown (Figs. 2, 3, 40)........................... 5</p> <p>3(2). Body oval with parallel sides. Penis guide of male genitalia with hook-shaped ventral projections (Figs. 16, 17)............................................................ S. enochrus Gordon</p> <p>3′. Body shape and male genitalia different from above........................................... 4</p> <p>4(3). Penis guide of male genitalia with acute apex; remainder of lobe with lateral expanded margins; parameres slightly longer than half penis guide (Figs. 37, 38)............................................. S. trulla Gordon</p> <p>4′. Penis guide of male genitalia with lateral alae; parameres short and wide (for more information see Gordon 1976)................................................... S. nugator Casey</p> <p>5(2). Male genitalia with penis guide expanded laterally, except at apex (Fig. 11).......................................... S. cerinotum Gordon</p> <p>5′. Male genitalia different from above.... 6</p> <p>6(5). Male genitalia with narrow parameres; apex of penis guide not elongate beyond parameres (Figs. 5, 6).............................................................. S. kansanus Casey</p> <p>6′. Male genitalia with wide and heavily sclerotized parameres; penis guide with elongate acute apex (Figs. 13, 14).............................................. S. cervicalis Mulsant</p> <p>7(1). Elytra reddish brown (Fig. 58); males with spine-like process at metaventral apex (Fig. 57); male genitalia with wide, heavily sclerotized lateral alae fused with penis guide (Figs. 55, 61); penis robust with spines at apex (Figs. 56, 62)........................................... S. erwini Nestor-Arriola and Niño-Maldonado, new species</p> <p>7′. Male genitalia different than described above.................................................... 8</p> <p>8(7). Penis guide of male genitalia without lateral alae............................................ 9</p> <p>8′. Penis guide of male genitalia with lateral alae..................................................... 18</p> <p>9(8). Penis guide of male genitalia without membranous projections............................ 10</p> <p>9′. Penis guide of male genitalia with membranous projections............................ 17</p> <p>10(9). Males with medial tubercle on first ventrite, near posterior margin (for detailed information see Gordon 1976)............................... S. marginicollis Mannerheim</p> <p>10′. Males without tubercle on first ventrite.......................................... 11</p> <p>11(10). Penis guide of male genitalia as wide as long.................................................... 12</p> <p>11′. Penis guide of male genitalia longer than wide.................................................... 14</p> <p>12(11). Color variable, usually dark brown except pronotal margins and apical spot on each elytron; elytral spot sometimes reaching humeral callus, reddish brown to yellowish brown; parameres without dorsal projection; penis narrow (Figs. 25, 27)................................................ S. loewii Mulsant</p> <p>12′. Color dorsally black, except pronotum red, orange or yellow with dark basal macula, and apical fifth of elytra red, orange or yellow; parameres with dorsal projection; penis robust........................................ 13</p> <p>13(12). Apical half of penis with almost parallel sides (Fig. 30)..... S. louisianae Chapin</p> <p>13′. Apical half of penis not parallel-sided (Fig. 21).......................... S. fraternus Wingo</p> <p>14(11). Penis guide of male genitalia with margins expanded laterally; parameres short and wide (Fig. 11)...... S. cerinotum Gordon</p> <p>14′. Penis guide of male genitalia with margins not expanded laterally; parameres long and narrow................................................ 15</p> <p>15(14). Penis guide of male genitalia with apical fourth narrow and with dorsal barb; rest of lobe with almost parallel sides (Fig. 35)..................... S. rohdendorfi Ukrainsky</p> <p>15′. Penis guide of male genitalia without abruptly narrowed apex or dorsal barb.................................................... 16</p> <p>16(15). Penis guide of male genitalia with sinuate lateral margins, narrowing before apical third (Fig. 32)....... S. pulvinatus Wingo</p> <p>16′. Penis guide of male genitalia with slightly curved sides; ventral process hardly pronounced, with straight superior margin (Figs. 8, 9).............. S. pacificus Crotch</p> <p>17(9). Penis guide of male genitalia subtriangular; parameres wide, almost as long as penis guide; lateral membranous projection of penis guide with rounded apex (Figs. 22, 23)................. S. gilae Casey</p> <p>17′. Penis guide of male genitalia with acute, elongate apex; lateral membranous projections sinuous (Figs. 42, 43, 45, 46)................................ S. zuritai Nestor-Arriola and Niño-Maldonado, new species</p> <p>18(8). Penis guide of male genitalia without membranous projections............................ 19</p> <p>18′. Penis guide of male genitalia with membranous projections............................ 28</p> <p>19(18). Penis guide of male genitalia with heavily sclerotized lateral alae covering lobe in ventral view (Figs. 51, 52)........................................................ S. bryanti Gordon</p> <p>19′. Lateral alae of penis guide with variable sclerotization, not covering lobe in ventral view.................................................... 20</p> <p>20(19). Lateral alae fused to penis guide for more than half their distance....................... 21</p> <p>20′. Lateral alae free or fused with penis guide only in their basal half....................... 26</p> <p>21(20). Apex of penis guide of male genitalia free..................................................... 22</p> <p>21′. Apex of penis guide of male genitalia fused with lateral alae.................................. 25</p> <p>22(21). Parameres as long as penis guide....... 23</p> <p>22′. Parameres shorter than penis guide....... 24</p> <p>23(22). Apex of penis guide of male genitalia abruptly narrowed in apical fourth and with a dorsal hook (Fig. 81)................................................ S. simillimus Gordon</p> <p>23′. Apex of penis guide of male genitalia acute, but not abruptly narrowed, without dorsal hook (Figs. 78, 79)............................................................ S. impletus Gordon</p> <p>24(22). Apex of penis guide of male genitalia acute (for detailed information see Gordon 1976).................. S. tenebricus Gordon</p> <p>24′. Apex of penis guide of male genitalia rounded (for detailed information see Gordon 2000)........... S. dozieri Gordon</p> <p>25(21). Penis guide of male genitalia slightly longer than lateral alae and with truncate apex; alae with truncate apex (for more information see Gordon 1976).......................................................... S. caudalis LeConte</p> <p>25′. Penis guide of male genitalia longer than lateral alae, rounded at apex; lateral alae with oblique apex (for more information see Gordon 1976). S. creperus Mulsant</p> <p>26(20). Penis guide of male genitalia with dorsal and ventral processes undifferentiated (Fig. 63).................... S. horni Gorham</p> <p>26′. Penis guide of male genitalia with dorsal and ventral processes differentiated....... 27</p> <p>27(26). Ventral process of penis guide of male genitalia longer than dorsal process (Fig. 76)................................. S. ignarus Gordon</p> <p>27′. Ventral process of penis guide of male genitalia equal in length with dorsal process; dorsal process wide (for detailed information see Gordon 1976)........................................................... S. tenebrosus Casey</p> <p>28(18). Apex of penis guide of male genitalia rounded in lateral view (Fig. 69)......................................... S. huachuca Gordon</p> <p>28′. Apex of penis guide of male genitalia acute in lateral view (Fig. 72)..................... 29</p> <p>29(28). Penis with trifurcate apex clearly wider than rest of penis (Fig. 74).................................................... S. hubbardi Gordon</p> <p>29′. Penis with trifurcate apex only slightly wider than rest of penis...................... 30</p> <p>30(29). Tegmen wide (Fig. 67)........................................................... S. howdeni Gordon</p> <p>30′. Tegmen narrow (Fig. 49)........................................................... S. brullei Mulsant</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/99518797FFF8FFA744F7FD53FD85FD26	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Nestor-Arriola, Jorge I.;Clark, Shawn M.;Niño-Maldonado, Santiago	Nestor-Arriola, Jorge I., Clark, Shawn M., Niño-Maldonado, Santiago (2022): Taxonomic and Distributional Notes on the Genus Scymnus Kugelann, 1794 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Mexico. The Coleopterists Bulletin 76 (3): 299-328, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-76.3.299, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-76.3.299
99518797FFFDFFA7453BFC9CFBE1FC2D.text	99518797FFFDFFA7453BFC9CFBE1FC2D.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scymnus (Pullus)	<div><p>Scymnus (Pullus), Section II</p> <p>Note. Male genitalia complex; penis guide without lateral alae on sides (Gordon 1976).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/99518797FFFDFFA7453BFC9CFBE1FC2D	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Nestor-Arriola, Jorge I.;Clark, Shawn M.;Niño-Maldonado, Santiago	Nestor-Arriola, Jorge I., Clark, Shawn M., Niño-Maldonado, Santiago (2022): Taxonomic and Distributional Notes on the Genus Scymnus Kugelann, 1794 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Mexico. The Coleopterists Bulletin 76 (3): 299-328, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-76.3.299, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-76.3.299
99518797FFFDFFA7472AFD37FE81FD52.text	99518797FFFDFFA7472AFD37FE81FD52.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scymnus (Pullus)	<div><p>Scymnus (Pullus), Section I</p> <p>Note. Male genitalia similar to those of Scymnus s. str. (Gordon 1976).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/99518797FFFDFFA7472AFD37FE81FD52	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Nestor-Arriola, Jorge I.;Clark, Shawn M.;Niño-Maldonado, Santiago	Nestor-Arriola, Jorge I., Clark, Shawn M., Niño-Maldonado, Santiago (2022): Taxonomic and Distributional Notes on the Genus Scymnus Kugelann, 1794 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Mexico. The Coleopterists Bulletin 76 (3): 299-328, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-76.3.299, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-76.3.299
99518797FFFDFFA74695F9C4FCC0FCB8.text	99518797FFFDFFA74695F9C4FCC0FCB8.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scymnus (Pullus) pacificus Crotch 1874	<div><p>Scymnus (Pullus) pacificus Crotch, 1874 Figs. 1, 8–10</p> <p>Scymnus pacificus Crotch 1874a: 77. Horn 1895: 100.</p> <p>Scymnus (Pullus) pacificus: Casey 1899: 152. Leng 1920: 214. Korschefsky 1931: 164. Hatch 1961: 151. Gordon 1976: 72. Gordon 1985: 154.</p> <p>Scymnus strabus Horn 1895: 100. Gordon 1976: 72.</p> <p>Scymnus (Pullus) strabus: Casey 1899: 152. Leng 1920: 214. Korschefsky 1931: 166.</p> <p>Diagnosis: Length 2.3 mm; width 1.7 mm. Dorsal color black to dark brown, except clypeus yellow to pale brown, anterolateral angles of pronotum orange to pale brown, and apical two-thirds of elytra yellow, orange or pale brown (Fig. 1); ventral color black, except mouthparts, antennae and last three or four ventrites yellow, orange or pale brown. Males with first ventrite unmodified; fifth and sixth ventrites strongly emarginate. Male genitalia with parameres almost as long as penis guide (Figs. 8, 9).</p> <p>Material Examined: Two specimens (FIC).</p> <p>Distribution: North America (Gordon 1976, 1985). In Mexico, this species has been collected in the state of Michoacán (Juárez-Monroy 1986).</p> <p>New Localities: OAXACA: (1♀, 1♂) Oaxaca (FIC).</p> </div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/99518797FFFDFFA74695F9C4FCC0FCB8	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Nestor-Arriola, Jorge I.;Clark, Shawn M.;Niño-Maldonado, Santiago	Nestor-Arriola, Jorge I., Clark, Shawn M., Niño-Maldonado, Santiago (2022): Taxonomic and Distributional Notes on the Genus Scymnus Kugelann, 1794 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Mexico. The Coleopterists Bulletin 76 (3): 299-328, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-76.3.299, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-76.3.299
99518797FFE9FFB346DDFB02FE45FAAF.text	99518797FFE9FFB346DDFB02FE45FAAF.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Scymnus (Pullus)	<div><p>Scymnus (Pullus), Section III</p> <p>Note. Male genitalia complex, with lateral alae on penis guide (Gordon 1976).</p></div> 	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/99518797FFE9FFB346DDFB02FE45FAAF	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Nestor-Arriola, Jorge I.;Clark, Shawn M.;Niño-Maldonado, Santiago	Nestor-Arriola, Jorge I., Clark, Shawn M., Niño-Maldonado, Santiago (2022): Taxonomic and Distributional Notes on the Genus Scymnus Kugelann, 1794 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Mexico. The Coleopterists Bulletin 76 (3): 299-328, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065X-76.3.299, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-76.3.299
