Blepharella, Macquart, 1851
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https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2025.2486489 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B98787-4935-BB00-DDED-8987A898FEE3 |
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Plazi |
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Blepharella |
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Key to species of Blepharella View in CoL of the Oriental and eastern Palaearctic regions
The species with an asterisk (*) may sometimes have black setulae on the upper occiput.
1. Legs black or dark brown, except pulvilli, hind tibia sometimes weakly reddish brown; antenna wholly black or with scape and pedicel reddish yellow darkened medially especially in female; occiput with or without black setulae behind postocular setae; venter of male 4th abdominal tergite usually with sexual hair patches........................ 2
- Legs with tibiae yellow, darkened basally and apically; antenna with scape and pedicel yellowish, pedicel sometimes darkened medially; occiput without black setulae behind upper 1/2 of postocellar setae; venter of male 4th abdominal tergite without sexual hair patches ....................................................... B. leucaniae (Chao and Jin) View in CoL
2. Prosternum bare; facial ridge with strong downcurved setae on lower 1/2 or more; occiput without black setae behind row of postocular setae.. B. lateralis Macquart View in CoL
- Prosternum with fine setae on both sides; facial ridge with fine setae at most on lower 1/3–1/2, rarely with short fine setae on lower 2/3; prosternum haired; occiput with black setae behind row of postocular setae, or without distinct row of black setae on upper 1/2. ............................................................................................................................................... 3
3. Occiput without black setulae behind postocular setae on upper 1/2 or 2/3. .......... 4
- Occiput with black setulae behind postocular setae ............................................................ 7
4. Antenna with scape and pedicel reddish yellow, postpedicel about 4 times as long as pedicel in male, 2.5 times in female; scutellum with several strong erect setae on apical portion; thoracic scutum with 5 rather broad vittae, median vitta absent on presutural area ......................................................... B. meridionalis Shima and Tachi sp. n.
- Antenna wholly black to dark brown in male, scape and pedicel sometimes reddish yellow in female; postpedicel 2.5–3.0 times as long as pedicel in male and female; scutellum without such hairs, with erect to suberect short hairs; thoracic scutum with 2 outer and 2 narrow inner vittae ................................................................................................ 5
5 Thorax with greyish pruinosity; abdominal dorsum with thin greyish pruinosity on anterior 1/3 of 3rd tergite, dense pale yellowish grey pruinosity on anterior 2/3 of 4th tergite and almost entire 5th tergite; male claws and pulvilli subequal in length to 5th tarsomere ................................. ................................ B. vietnamensis Shima and Tachi sp. n.
- Thorax with thin whitish or yellowish pruinosity on anterior 1/2 or less of presutural area of scutum; abdominal dorsum at least with rather thin greyish white pruinosity on anterior 1/3 of each tergite; male claws and pulvilli longer than 5th tarsomere 6
6. Anterior half of presutural area of scutum with yellowish or golden yellowish pruinosity; 3rd abdominal tergite with a pair of short (at most 1/3 as long as 4th tergite) median marginal setae; male cerci nearly nearly straight in lateral view; male surstylus in lateral view with dorsal margin strongly curved ventrally on apical 1/3 ...................... ....................................................................................................... B. bomolocha Shima and Tachi *
- Anterior half of presutural area of scutum with whitish pruinosity; 3rd abdominal tergite without median marginal setae or at most with 2 very fine hair-like setae; male cerci weakly swollen ventrally at apex; male surstylus in lateral view weakly narrowed posteriorly on apical 1/4 .............. .............. B. persimilis Shima, Zhang and Tachi sp. n.
7. Thoracic dorsum with yellowish or pale yellowish grey-white pruinosity, and with 4–5 distinct longitudinal vittae; scutellum reddish yellow in ground colour on apical 1/ 2–1/3 ......................................................................................................................................................... 8
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