Epidaus Stal
Creators: name: Zhang, Wenjie
name: Zhao, Ping
name: Cao, Liangming
name: Cai, Wanzhi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Epidaus

description: Key to the Chinese species of the genus Epidaus Stål
1. Pronotum with postero-lateral angles with short tubercles or short spines, median area of posterior lobe with two tubercles ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2
-. Pronotum with postero-lateral angles with long spines, median area of posterior pronotal lobe with two tubercles or spines............................................................................................................................................................................. 3
2. Posterior margin of each connexival segment light, female connexivum evenly extended .................. E. nebulo (Stål)
-. Fifth connexival segment totally puce in dorsal view, other segments light, female connexivum unevenly extended in rhomboid shape............................................................................................................................. E. tuberosus Yang
3. Scutellum except apical part black ................................................................................................ E. atrispinus Distant
-. Scutellum light.............................................................................................................................................................. 4
4. Postocular part of head puce ......................................................................................................................................... 5
-. Postocular part of head yellow or reddish yellow......................................................................................................... 6
5. Body henna, clothed with dense white wax spots, female abdomen conspicuously extended bilaterally ..................... ............................................................................................................................................................ E. famulus (Stål)
-. Body filemot, without wax spots, female abdomen slightly extended ............................................. E. sexspinus Hsiao
6. Head, pronotum, scutellum reddish yellow ....................................................................................... E. bicolor Distant
-. Head, pronotum (except transverse strip), scutellum canary or beige..........................................................................7
7. Posterior pronotal lobe without black transverse band near posterior margin, with only four long black spines.......... ....................................................................................................................................................... E. insularis sp. nov.
-. Posterior pronotal lobe with only black transverse band near posterior margin ........................... E. longispinus Hsiao
description: Published as part of Zhang, Wenjie, Zhao, Ping, Cao, Liangming & Cai, Wanzhi, 2010, Description of a new species of genus Epidaus Stål (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) from China, with a key to Chinese species, pp. 62-68 in Zootaxa 2517 on page 63, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.196168