Ademula McAtee &

Chen, Zhuo, Li, Hu & Cai, Wanzhi, 2023, Two new species of Ademula McAtee & Malloch (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) from China with an updated key to the Oriental species, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 71, pp. 702-712 : 710

Key to the Oriental species of Ademula McAtee &

Malloch, 1926

[Modified after Wygodzinsky (1966) and Rédei (2005)]

1. Fore wing with nearly percurrent dark stripes not intersected by reticulating whitish lines....................................................2

– Fore wing with dark markings intersected by reticulating whitish lines ..........................................................................................3

2. Postocular region of head with small dorsal process; antennal scape with dark annuli; fore femur with three dark annuli..... ...................................................... A. corniculata , new species

– Postocular region of head unarmed; antennal scape lacking dark annulus; fore femur with four dark annuli....................... .............................................. A. nubecula McAtee & Malloch

3. Fore femur relatively stout, less than 10 times as long as its maximum width, with four dark annuli; subapical annulus of mid and hind femora very narrow, almost imperceptible........ ............................................. A. reticulata McAtee & Malloch

– Fore femur slender, at least 10 times as long as its maximum width, with three or four dark annuli; subapical annulus of mid and hind femora wider, well visible .......................................4

4. Fore femur 12 times as long as its maximum width, with three dark annuli...............................................................................5

– Fore femur 10–11 times as long as its maximum width, with four dark annuli.......................................................................6

5. Posterior pronotal lobe brown, with longitudinal medial dark brown stripe; mid and hind femora with one subapical annulus and two incomplete additional annuli............ A. aemula Rédei

– Posterior pronotal lobe dark brown, with one pair of longitudinal submedian orangish stripes; mid and hind femora with one subapical annulus only .................. A. callipennis , new species

6. Fore femur 11 times as long as its maximum width; mid and hind femora with one subapical annulus only; spots on fore wing large, not numerous, scattered ......................................... ................................................... A. abluta McAtee & Malloch

– Fore femur 10 times as long as its maximum width; mid and hind femora with one indistinct subapical annulus and three additional annuli; spots on fore wing large and small, numerous, occupying a larger total surface.......... A. contaminata Distant