Triplectides Kolenati 1859
Creators: name: Desidério, Gleison Robson
name: Pes, Ana Maria
name: Barcelos-Silva, Patrik
name: Hamada, Neusa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Trichoptera
Leptoceridae
Triplectides

description: Key to males of Triplectides species with occurrence in Brazil(modified from Holzenthal 1988)
1. Tibial spur formula 0-2-2 or 0-2-3 .................................................................................................... 2
– Tibial spur formula 2-2-3 or 2-2-4 .................................................................................................... 4
2. Preanal appendages very broad, rounded (see figs 18a–b in Holzenthal 1988) ................................. ............................................................................................................... T. neblinus Holzenthal, 1988
– Preanal appendages clavate or digitate ............................................................................................. 3
3. Mesal lobe of inferior appendage wrinkled in apical half (see fig. 3c in Desidério et al. 2017) ........................................................... T. maranhensis Desidério, Barcelos-Silva & Pes, 2017
– Mesal lobe of inferior appendage non-wrinkled in apical half (see fig. 22c in Holzenthal 1988) ..................................................................................................... T. nevadus Holzenthal, 1988
4. Tibial spur formula 2-2-3 .................................................................................. T. egleri Sattler, 1963
– Tibial spur formula 2-2-4 .................................................................................................................. 5
5. Mesal lobe of inferior appendage short, subtriangular (see fig. 30c in Holzenthal 1988) ................ 6
– Mesal lobe of inferior appendage long, digitate (see fig. 9c in Holzenthal 1988) ............................ 7
6. Preanal appendages slender, with apices pointed; tergum X with rounded apex (see fig. 30b in Holzenthal 1988) ................................................................................... T. ultimus Holzenthal, 1988
– Preanal appendages digitate, with apices rounded; tergum X with truncate apex .............................. ............................................................................................... T. nessimiani Desidério & Pes sp. nov.
7. Mesal lobe of inferior appendage with apex acute, pointed, with small, lateral point (see fig. 15c in Holzenthal 1988) ............................................................................ T. misionensis Holzenthal, 1988
– Mesal lobe of inferior appendage with apex obtuse, rounded, without lateral point ........................ 8
8. Apex of mesal lobe of inferior appendage clearly capitate (see fig. 20c in Holzenthal 1988) ............................................................................................... T. neotropicus Holzenthal, 1988
– Apex of mesal lobe of inferior appendage rounded, not capitate ..................................................... 9
9. Hind wing fork I sessile or with very short petiole (see fig. 11b in Holzenthal 1988) ....................... .............................................................................................................. T. gracilis (Burmeister, 1839)
– Hind wing fork I with distinct petiole (see fig. 1b in Dumas & Nessimian 2010) ......................... 10
10. Tergum X with subtruncate apex and apicomesal excision extending anteriorly at half-length of segment (see fig. 2 in Henriques-Oliveira & Dumas 2015) ................................................................ ........................................................................................ T. cipo Henriques-Oliveira & Dumas, 2015
– Tergum X with rounded apex and apicomesal excision extending anteriorly to less than half length of segment (see fig. 3 in Dumas & Nessimian 2010) ............. T. itatiaia Dumas & Nessimian, 2010
description: Published as part of Desidério, Gleison Robson, Pes, Ana Maria, Barcelos-Silva, Patrik & Hamada, Neusa, 2020, Triplectides Kolenati (Trichoptera: Leptoceridae) from Brazil: A new species, new records and an identification key, pp. 1-11 in European Journal of Taxonomy 677 on pages 8-9, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.677, http://zenodo.org/record/3928391