Kiwisaldula Larivière & Larochelle 2016
Creators: name: Larivière, Marie-Claude
name: Larochelle, André
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Saldidae
Kiwisaldula

description: Key to Kiwisaldula species (North Island and nearby offshore islands)
Remark. Additional helpful but not necessarily exclusive characters are provided between square brackets.
1 Antennal segment II short, less than 1.5x longer than segment I. Lateral margins of pronotum narrowly pale or almost completely dark. Hemelytra (Figs 9, 17) velvety dark brown to bluish black in appearance with extensive steely blue-grey pruinose areas and reduced pale markings, without a nearly uninterrupted pale band along the costal margin. Hind femora darkly pigmented; ventral and dorsal sides dark brown to black, often coalesced into a broad annulus. Male paramere (Fig. 21) without
distinct processus sensualis; processus hamatus rather short, distinctly upturned at tip. [Small, 2.80–3.32 mm. Brachypterous, with three or four distinctly reduced cells in hemelytral membrane. Distribution: North Island, Central Volcanic Plateau and vicinity.].................................................................. K. stoneri (Drake & Hoberlandt) - Antennal segment II longer, at least 2x longer than segment I. Lateral margins of pronotum broadly pale. Hemelytra (Figs 10– 12, 18–20) not velvety dark brown to bluish black in appearance, lacking extensive steely blue-grey pruinose areas, with moderately to well developed pale markings and a nearly uninterrupted pale band along the costal margin. Hind femora paler; with or without ventral side partly dark, without a broad annulus. Male paramere (Figs 22–24) with or without processus sensualis; processus hamatus longer, not distinctly upturned at tip...................................................... 2
2 Elongate-ovate species (Fig. 10). Mostly macropterous, cell 4 of hemelytral membrane ending more or less in line with cell 3. Head, pronotum and scutellum slightly shiny, not or barely contrasting against mostly dull hemelytra. Male paramere (Fig. 22) with barely distinct processus sensualis; processus hamatus moderately long and rather broad. Female venter narrowly margined with pale (pale margin often reduced to individual patches laterally on segments). [Larger, about 4 mm long on average. Fore and mid femora often with ventral dark stripe over most of length. Distribution: North Island, central eastern and southern areas.]........................................................................ K. porangahau new species
- Short-ovate species (Figs 11–12). Mostly subbrachypterous, cell 4 of hemelytral membrane ending apically before tip of cell 3. Head, pronotum and scutellum strongly shiny, contrasting against mostly dull hemelytra. Male paramere (Figs 23–24) with or without barely distinct processus sensualis; processus hamatus long or short, narrower than above. Female venter moderately to broadly margined with pale, at least basally. [Smaller, under 3.4 mm long on average.]............................ 3
3 Corium (Fig. 19): costal margin lined with rather wide pale band; basal pale spot of clavus usually absent. Inner margins of male parandria (Fig. 27) almost straight subbasally, slightly concave subapically. Male paramere (Fig. 23) without trace of a processus sensualis; processus hamatus rather long, its tip moderately broad. [Distribution: North Island, northern half and southwestern areas.]................................................................... K. parvula (Cobben)
- Corium (Fig. 20): costal margin lined with rather narrow pale band; basal pale spot of clavus usually present. Inner margins of male parandria (Fig. 28) more sinuate. Male paramere (Fig. 24) with barely distinct processus sensualis; processus hamatus rather short, its tip narrow. [Distribution: Three Kings Islands.]......................... K. manawatawhi new species
description: Published as part of Larivière, Marie-Claude & Larochelle, André, 2016, Aoteasalda and Kiwisaldula, two new genera of Saldidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with a key to New Zealand genera and a new synonymy in Zemacrosaldula, pp. 451-480 in Zootaxa 4085 (4) on pages 460-461, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.4.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1052719