Amblystira
Creators: name: Montemayor, Sara I.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tingidae
Amblystira

description: Key to the South American Amblystira
1 Subcostal area with two rows of areolae ........................................................................ A. pensa Drake & Hambleton
- Subcostal area with three or more rows of areolae...................................................................................................... 2
2 Antennal segment I nearly three times the length of II......................................................................... A. solida Drake
- Antennal segment I two or less times the length of II .................................................................................................. 3
3 Head with occipital spines .......................................................................................................................................... 4
- Head without occipital spines ...................................................................................................................................... 8
4 Occipital spines short, not reaching middle of eye ...................................................................................................... 5
- Occipital spines long, at least reaching anterior margin of eye ................................................................................... 6
5 Hemelytra constricted; length approximately 3mm ................................................. A. peltogyne Drake & Hambleton
- Hemelytra not constricted, narrowing from the middle; length less than 2.5mm ................................. A. socia Drake
6 Paranota angulate opposite the humeral angles ................................................................ A. angella Drake & Ruhoff
- Paranota not angulate, scarcely developed or absent .................................................................................................. 7
7 Hemelytra entirely black except for a hyaline narrow space on the costal area .......................... A. niborskiana n. sp.
- Hemelytra black except for brown along the sutural area, the distal two thirds of the costal area and distal third of subcostal area ..................................................................................................................................... A. pallipes (Stål)
8 Hemelytra not constricted, narrowing from the middle............................................................................................... 9
- Hemelytra constricted ................................................................................................................................................ 10
9 Lateral carinae developed only on posterior process; hemelytra black except for the hyaline apical half and narrow space on the costal area ............................................................................................................ A. fuscitarsis Champion
- Lateral carinae develop on the posterior process and pronotal disc; hemelytra black except for a narrow hyaline space on the costal area ..................................................................................................................... A. silvicola Drake
10 Hemelytra strongly constricted, costal area uniseriate at it widest part ......................................... A. machalana Drake
- Hemelytra weakly constricted, costal area biseriate at it widest part ............................................... A. nyctalis Drake
description: Published as part of Montemayor, Sara I., 2010, Description of a new Amblystira (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae) from Argentina with a key to the South American species of the genus, pp. 65-68 in Zootaxa 2675 on pages 67-68, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.199188