Myrmecolax Westwood 1861
Creators: name: Lu, Xiumei
name: Liu, Xingyue
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Strepsiptera
Myrmecolacidae
Myrmecolax

description: Key to males of Myrmecolax from Asia
1. Distal end of detached vein to radius clearly bifurcated, with anterior branch often directed to wing base environing distal end of radius............................................................................................. 2
- Distal end of detached vein to radius simple or rather slightly bifurcated, with short anterior branch................... 10
2. Flabellum of 3 rd antennomere reaching about basal 1/3 of 7 th antennomere......................................... 3
- Flabellum of 3 rd antennomere reaching at least middle of 7 th antennomere......................................... 4
3. Length ratio of 6 th and 7 th segments 1:2; body length 1.75 mm. Indonesia .............. M. flagellatus (de Meijere, 1908)
- Length ratio of 6 th and 7 th segments 1:1.51; body length 1.85 mm. Malaysia (N. Borneo) .................................................................................................... M. danielssoni Kathirithamby, 1994
4. Flabellum of 3 rd antennomere reaching middle of 7 th antennomere............................................... 5
- Flabellum of 3 rd antennomere extending beyond middle of 7 th antennomere........................................6
5. Detached vein R 3 distally forked. India ............................. M. pierci (Chattopadhyay & Chaudhuri, 1980)
- Detached vein R 3 not forked. Thailand ................................. M. chantaneeae Kifune & Hirashima, 1979
6. Dorsal process of aedeagus short, inconspicuous. Philippines ............................... M. furcatus Bohart, 1951
- Dorsal process of aedeagus long, almost as long as ventral projection............................................7
7. Body of aedeagus straight. China ..................................................... M. pachygnathus sp. nov.
- Body of aedeagus curved...............................................................................8
8. Body of aedeagus arcuately curved; body length 1.86 mm. China ............................... M. arcuatus sp. nov.
- Body of aedeagus curved at basal 1/3; body length 1.00– 1.28 mm ............................................... 9
9. Basal 1/3 of aedeagus broad; length of 5 th segment shorter than 6 th segment; body length 1.005 mm. India ........................................................................................... M. plantipes (Chaudhuri, 1978)
- Basal 1/3 of aedeagus thin; length of 5 th segment longer than 6 th segment; body length 1.17–1.28 mm. Malaysia (N. Borneo) ........................................................................ M. malayensis Kathirithamby, 1993
10. Flabellum of 3 rd antennomere reaching at most base of 7 th antennomere.......................................... 11
- Flabellum of 3 rd antennomere reaching at least middle of 7 th antennomere........................................ 12
11. Postscutellum short, slightly longer than wide. Philippines ........................... M. philippinensis Bohart, 1941
- Postscutellum long, about 1.5 times as long as wide. Philippines ......................... M. culionensis Bohart, 1951
12. Aedeagus without dorsal process. Sri Lanka .......................................... M. nietneri Westwood, 1861
- Aedeagus with prominent dorsal process. Phillippines ...................................... M. rossi Bohart, 1951
description: Published as part of Lu, Xiumei & Liu, Xingyue, 2014, Discovery of the twisted-wing parasite family Myrmecolacidae (Insecta: Strepsiptera) from China, with description of two new species of the genus Myrmecolax Westwood, 1861, pp. 385-395 in Zootaxa 3881 (4) on page 394, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3881.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/4949923