Hebynthus Noyes 2023
Creators: name: Noyes, John Stuart
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Triozidae
Hebynthus

description: Key to Costa Rican species of Hebynthus   
(females)  
1. Hind tibia mostly dark brown..........................................................................................2  
- Hind tibia completely pale yellow or pale orange........................................................... 6  
2 (1) Funicle (Figs 1877, 1886) with F1-F3 longer than broad; linear sensilla present on F2..3  
- Funicle (Figs 1891, 1894, 1903) with at least F2-F3 transverse; linear sensilla absent from F2.................................................................................................................4  
 3 (2) Head (Fig. 1880) not more than about 3X as wide as frontovertex; antenna (Fig. 1877) with F1 conspicuously smaller than F2, pedicel as long as F1 and F2 combined; fore wing (Fig. 1878) generally infused very pale brown, conspicuously infuscate below marginal and stigmal veins, the infuscation extending past apex of stigmal vein; ovipositor clearly exserted, the exserted part more than 0.5X as long as mid tibial spur, gonostylus about 1.5X as long as mid tibial spur.............................................................................................................................. kapo sp.nov. (p. 685)   
 - Head (Fig. 1882) at least abut 4.5X as wide as frontovertex; antenna (Fig. 1886) with F1 and F2 subequal, pedicel shorter than F1 and F2 combined; fore wing (Fig. 1884) generally infused pale yellow or pale yellow-brown, more strongly so in apical half, without a distinct infuscate area below marginal and stigmal veins; ovipositor hardly exserted, the exserted part not more than 0.25X as long as mid tibial spur; gonostylus about as long as mid tibial spur........................ maros sp.nov. (p. 687)   
 4 (2) Scape (Fig. 1891) subcylindrical, more than 5X as long as broad; flagellum not unicolourous, funicle with F1-F5 orange-brown, F6 orange, clava dark brown; mid tibial spur clearly longer than basitarsus, nearly reaching apical margin of second tarsomere.............................................................. phyrra sp.nov. (p. 689)   
- Scape (Figs 1894, 1903) broadened and flattened, less than 5X as long as broad; flagellum unicolourous dark brown; mid tibial spur about as long as basitarsus or shorter................................................................................................................................. 5  
 5 (4) Sensory part of clava relatively small (Fig. 1894), not reaching more than 0.4X along ventral surface; fore wing (Fig. 1899) below marginal vein hyaline; malar sulcus absent.................................................................................. cleon sp.nov. (p. 690)   
 - Sensory part of clava relatively large (Fig. 1903), at least reaching half way along ventral surface; fore wing (Fig. 1906) with a small infuscate area below marginal vein that extends a little way below apex of stigmal vein; malar sulcus present............................................................................................................... solex sp.nov. (p. 692)   
6 (1) Fore coxa yellow or orange............................................................................................ 7  
- Fore coxa brown or mostly brown...................................................................................8  
 7 (6) Mid and hind coxae yellow; antenna (Fig. 1913) with scape 6X as long as broad and all funicle segments slightly longer than broad or at least quadrate, linear sensilla on F2-F6; malar sulcus present............................................ himalia sp.nov. (p. 694)   
 - Mid and hind coxae brown; antenna (Fig. 1920) with scape about 4X as long as broad and F1-F4 transverse, linear sensilla only on F5-F6; malar sulcus absent...................................................................................................... cosmus sp.nov. (p. 696)   
 8 (6) Head (Fig. 1929) at least 6X as wide as frontovertex................. menai sp.nov. (p. 698)   
- Head (Figs 1936, 1944, 1948, 1957) not more than 5X as wide as frontovertex........... 9  
9 (8) Fore wing (Figs 1938, 1947) relatively slender, at least 2.5X as long as broad, ventral surface of costal cell with only a single line of setae in distal half; sensory part of clava extending at most about 0.4X along its ventral surface (Figs 1937, 1943); malar sulcus absent.............................................................................................10  
- Fore wing (Figs 1954, 1960) less than 2.5X as long as broad; ventral surface of costal cell with two complete lines of setae; sensory part of clava extending at least about 0.5X as long its ventral surface (Figs 1952, 1959); malar sulcus present.......... 11  
 10 (9) Funicle with linear sensilla present only on F2-F6, absent from F1; hind coxa completely pale orange............................................................................ cira sp.nov. (p. 700)   
 - Funicle with linear sensilla present on all segments; hind coxa at least partially dark brown............................................................................. erythrax sp.nov. (p. 702)   
 11 (9) Hind coxa at least partially dark brown; fore and mid femora completely pale orange; head (Fig. 1948) about 4.5X as wide as frontovertex; scape about 7X as long as broad; mid tibia shorter than ovipositor........................ callirhoe sp.nov. (p. 704)   
 - Hind coxa completely pale orange; fore and mid femora partially brown; head (Fig. 1957) about 3.5X as wide as frontovertex; scape about 6X as long as broad; mid tibia a little longer than ovipositor................................. tamones sp.nov. (p. 706)
description: Published as part of Noyes, John Stuart, 2023, ENCYRTIDAE OF COSTA RICA (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA), 4 Subfamily Encyrtinae: tribes Arrhenophagini, Habrolepidini, Cerapterocerini, Cheiloneurini, Trechnitini, Cercobelini, Polaszekiini, Protyndarichoidini, Gahaniellini and Syrphophagini (part), mainly primary parasitoids and hyperparasitoids of Coccoidea and Psylloidea (Hemiptera), pp. 1-921 in Taxonomic Monographs on Neotropical Hymenoptera (Oxford, England) (Oxford, England) 2 (11) on pages 683-685, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8074943