Scolopini Carayon 1954
Creators: name: Carpintero, Diego Leonardo
name: Dellapé, Pablo Matías
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Anthocoridae

description: Key to Neotropical genera of Scolopini   1 Ocelli placed between eyes, before imaginary line that passes through posterior margin of eyes (Fig. 10). Metasternum with median longitudinal carina. Ectospermalege not shaped as copulatory tubes. Subtribe Calliodina......................................................... 2   
 – Ocelli placed behind imaginary line that passes through posterior margin of eyes (Fig. 9). Metasternum without median longitudinal carina. Ectospermalege shaped as copulatory tubes. Subtribe Scolopina........................................................................................... 10   
2 Ant-mimetic species. Lateral sides of pronotum strongly sinuated (Figs. 3, 6, 12). Abdomen constricted at base................................................................................................. 3  
– Not ant-mimetic species. Lateral sides of pronotum straight or only slightly sinuated (Figs. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9). Abdomen not constricted at base........................................... 4  
 3 Head before eyes curved downward. Legs long and slender. Dorsal half of metapleura smooth (Fig. 23). Tibiae unarmed. Fossula spongiosa absent. Brazil, Nicaragua........................................................................................................ Opisthypselus Reuter, 1909   
 – Head before eyes flat, straight (Fig. 10). Legs short, femora enlarged. Dorsal half of metapleura sculptured. Fore tibiae in males with row of teeth on inner margin (Fig. 11). Fossula spongiosa present. Ecuador..............................  Guayascoris gen. nov.  (Fig. 3)   
4 Lateral margins of pronotum and hemelytra explanate. Female with ovipositor reduced..........................................................................................................................................5  
– Lateral margins of pronotum and hemelytra not explanate. Female with well developed ovipositor....................................................................................................................... 6  
 5 Pronotum and head with a series of wide and whitish setae (Fig. 19). Ostiolar peritreme curved, apex slender, acute (Fig. 20); metapleura wholly sculptured (Fig. 21). South America............................................................ Lepidonannella Poppius, 1913 (Fig. 4)   
 – Pronotum and head without a series of wide and whitish setae. Ostiolar peritreme slightly curved, apically rounded, dorsal margin of metapleura smooth (Fig. 22). North and Central America............................................................ Nidicola Harris & Drake, 1941 (Fig. 5)   
 6 Hemelytra smooth (Fig. 7). Male fore femora armed with a series of long spines (Fig. 24)...................................................................................... Zopherocoris Reuter, 1871   
– Hemelytra punctured. Male fore femora unarmed........................................................ 7  
 7 Eyes large, occupying 3/4 of head length. Hemelytra with only a row of punctures over endo-exocorial suture and claval-endocorial suture................................................................................................................................... Eulasiocolpus Champion, 1900 (Fig. 2)   
– Eyes smaller, occupying no more than 1/2 of head length. Hemelytra with many sparse punctures on clavus, corium and cuneus....................................................................... 8  
 8 Ostiolar peritreme strongly curved in apical quarter. Rostrum slightly surpassing fore coxae. All femora incrassate....................................... Lasiocolpoides Champion, 1900   
 – Ostiolar peritreme curved in all its length (Fig. 16). Rostrum reaching mid coxae. All femora slender (Fig. 1)................................................................ Calliodis Reuter, 1871   
 9 All femora armed with spines on inner margin (Fig. 28). Ostiolar peritreme (Fig. 29, 30) very long, folded (as in Xylocoris Dufour, 1831) (Fig. 9)........................................................................................................................................... Scolopocoris Carayon, 1972   
– Femora unarmed, or only fore femora armed with spines. Ostiolar peritreme shorter, more or less curved............................................................................................................... 10  
10 Fore femora spinose. Rostrum reaching middle of mesosternum or reaching mid coxae...................................................................................................................................... 11  
– Fore femora unarmed. Rostrum never reaching fore coxae........................................ 12  
 11 Ostiolar peritreme long and strongly curved; punctures on dorsum deep, evident................................................................................................ Lasiochiloides Champion, 1900   
 – Ostiolar peritreme short and gently curved; finelly punctured on dorsum, appearing to be smooth.....................................................................................  Ameroscolopa gen. nov.    
 12 Body slender, subparallel-sided. Rostrum stout, nearly reaching the fore coxae. Membrane longer than corium (Fig. 8)................................................... Scolopella Carayon, 1954   
 – Body thicker, sinuate-sided. Rostrum slender, not surpassing the base of head. Membrane shorter than corium................................................................... Scolopa Carayon, 1954
description: Published as part of Carpintero, Diego Leonardo & Dellapé, Pablo Matías, 2012, Neotropical Scolopini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Anthocoridae): new taxa, diagnostic characters and a key to the genera of the tribe, pp. 49-66 in Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 52 (1) on pages 51-52, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5330417