PRONOTUM: Shape in lateral view
Low and rounded
Two large, distinct projections
Broadly rounded or high and foliaceous
Quadrangular
Anterior portion overhanging
Stepped
Pyramidal
Single long, median horn
Prominent paired suprahumeral horns
LENGTH: Head to wing apex
Medium: 4.0-6.9 mm
Large: 7.0 mm or greater
PRONOTUM: Dominant color (preserved)
Dark
Light or colored
PRONOTUM: Dominant color (live)
Dark
Light or colored
PRONOTUM: Sharp dorsal carina extending the majority of pronotum (excluding horn or projection)
Absent
Present
PRONOTUM: Extent of posterior process relative to scutellum
Pronotum not concealing scutellum
Pronotum concealing scutellum
PRONOTUM: Degree that reposed wing is concealed by pronotum
Wing not concealed by pronotum
Wing partially concealed by pronotum
PRONOTUM: Height (excluding suprahumeral horns)
Low and rounded
Moderately elevated
Highly elevated: often with horn, projection, or foliac...
Highly elevated: often with horn, projection, or foliaceous
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PRONOTUM: Highest peak: location
projection above or anterior to humeral angles
projection clearly posterior to humeral angles
PRONOTUM: Humeral angles
Not enlarged
Moderately enlarged
Greatly enlarged
PRONOTUM: Longitudinal ridges
Absent
Present but not obviously elevated
Raised ridges present
PRONOTUM: Posterior process shape (viewed laterally, excluding horn or projection)
Not sinuate
Sinuate
PRONOTUM: Posterior process length
Not extending past halfway point of wing
Extending past halfway point to most apical vein
Extending to or past most apical vein
PRONOTUM: Longitudinal vittae, stripes or spots
Absent
Present
PRONOTUM: Punctation
Dimples inconspicuous
Dimples conspicuous
PRONOTUM: Setae (covering most of pronotum)
Flat and numerous
Absent or sparse
Erect and dense
PRONOTUM: Irregular ornamentation or acute spines
Absent
Present
PRONOTUM: Swollen area posteriorly
Absent
Present
PRONOTUM: Metopidium from lateral view
Not vertical
Vertical
PRONOTUM: Median horn or distinct projection: compression
Strongly laterally compressed
Not strongly laterally compressed
PRONOTUM: Median horn or distinct projection: angle
Oriented vertically
Angled anteriorly
PRONOTUM: Black fringe on sharp dorsal carina (excluding horn or projection)
Absent
Present
HEAD: Ocelli
Closer to compound eyes
Equidistant or closer to each other than to compound ey...
Equidistant or closer to each other than to compound eyes
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HEAD: Foliaceous lobes (lateral to frontoclypeus)
Absent
Present
HEAD: Frontoclypeus: lobes
Indistinct
Distinct
Distinct
HEAD: Frontoclypeus: shape
Diamond-shaped
Circular
Triangular
HEAD: Frontoclypeus: length
Extending past inferior margin of head
Not extending past inferior margin of head
HEAD: Frontoclypeus: produced or thickened anteriorly
Present
Absent
FOREWING: Pigment
Majority clear or translucent
Majority of wing opaque
FOREWING: Reticulate venation or extra crossveins
Without reticulate venation
With reticulate venation
FOREWING: Sclerotization in basal half
Basal half no heavier anterad than posterad of vein Cu
Basal half heavier anterad of vein Cu than posterad
FOREWING: Vein sclerotization
Evident and sclerotized
Inconspicuous, unsclerotized
FOREWING: Veins R and M (apical fusion)
FOREWING: Apical limbus
Narrow
Broad
FOREWING: Apical limbus length
Not extended along anal margin basad of claval apex
Extended along anal margin basad of claval apex
FOREWING: Clavus
Acuminate
Truncate or rounded
FOREWING: Veins R and M (fusion)
FOREWING: Crossvein m-cu
with one m-cu crossvein
With more than one m-cu crossvein
FOREWING: Crossvein r-m1
Present
Absent
FOREWING: Crossvein s
Present
Absent
FOREWING: Crossvein m-cu2 position
Distad of M fork
Basad of M fork
FOREWING: Vein R initial division
Initially dividing at R1 and Rs
Initially dividing at R1+2+3 and R4+5
FOREWING: Veins M and Cu (fusion)
Not confluent to near mid length of wing
Confluent to near mid length of wing
FOREWING: Vein R2+3
Arising internally and intersecting with marginal vein
Present only as marginal vein
FOREWING: R4+5 and M1+2 perpendicular to apical fusion of R and M
NOT perpendicular to R and M fusion
Perpendicular to R and M fusion
FOREWING: A1 and A2 veins
Free basally, but fused for majority of wing length
Free for entire wing length
HINDWING: Vein A
Branched with 1A and 2A present
Unbranched
HINDWING: Veins R4+5 and M1+2 (no. of apical cells)
Veins R4+5 and M1+2 FREE, with 4 apical cells
Veins R4+5 and M1+2 FREE, with 3 apical cells
Veins R4+5 and M1+2 FUSED, with 4 apical cells
Veins R4+5 and M1+2 FUSED, with 2-3 apical cells
LEGS: Tibia shape
Not foliaceous
At least one leg foliaceous
LEGS: Prothoracic femur and tibia: apposing rows of cucullate setae
Absent
Present
LEGS: Mesothoracic coxa: long process
Absent
Present
LEGS: Mesothoracic femur: ablateral or adlateral apical cucullate setae
Absent
Present
LEGS: Mesothoracic femur and tibia: apposing rows of cucullate setae
Absent
Present
LEGS: Metathoracic femur: row of dorsal cucullate setae
Absent
Present
LEGS: Metathoracic femur: ablateral or adlateral apical cucullate setae
Absent
Present
LEGS: Metathoracic femur: row of ventral cucullate setae
Absent
Present
LEGS: Metathoracic tibia: shape
Not clavate
Clavate
LEGS: Metathoracic tibia: cucullate setae (size)
Greatly enlarged
Not greatly enlarged
LEGS: Metathoracic tibia: cucullate setal rows (arrangement of setae)
All single
One or more rows double or arranged in irregular band
LEGS: Metathoracic tibia: setal row I
Present but non-cucullate
Present and cucullate
LEGS: Metathoracic tibia: setal row II
Present but not cucullate
Present and cucullate
LEGS: Metathoracic tibia: setal row III
Present but not cucullate
Present and cucullate
LEGS: Metathoracic tarsus: length (relative to pro- and mesothoracic tarsus)
Same length or longer
Distinctly shorter
LEGS: Metathoracic tarsus: tarsomere I plantar cucullate setae
Absent
Present
LEGS: Metathoracic tarsus: tarsomere I apical cucullate setae
With 0-2 setae
With 3-4 setae
Apical cucullate setae on metathoracic tarsomere I: wit...
Apical cucullate setae on metathoracic tarsomere I: with 5-6 setae
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ABDOMEN: Sternum III and IV or both: transverse carina
Present
ABDOMEN: Inornate pits and associated lateral setae
Absent
Present
ABDOMEN: Tergum III: ventrolateral margin
Smooth
Carinate
FEMALE: Second valvulae: shape
Long without significant broadening
Short without significant broadening
Long with abrupt broadening
Short with abrupt broadening
Broad throughout with slight broadening
FEMALE: Second valvulae: curvature
Second valvulae NOT curved
Second valvulae CURVED
FEMALE: Second valvulae: dorsal teeth or acute projections
FEMALE: Second valvulae: number of large dorsal teeth
1-2
2-3
FEMALE: Second valvulae: apical teeth
Absent
Present
MALE: Pygofer: lateral plate
Free distally
Entirely free
MALE: Lateral plate: dorsal or medial tooth, process, or lobe
Absent
Present
MALE: Lateral plate: medial tooth or process length
Not longer than length of lateral plate
Longer than length of lateral plate
MALE: Lateral plate: ventral lobe
Absent
Present
MALE: Style apex: shape
Acuminate without strong apical curve
Truncate or rounded
Truncate or rounded apically with recurved tooth
Extended laterally, often acuminate apically
Swollen and acuminate apically
MALE: Aedeagus: dorsal subbasal hump or projection
Absent
Present
MALE: Aedeagus: posterior arm shape
Simple
Modified
