Onycholyda Takeuchi 1938
Creators: name: Shinohara, Akihiko
name: Kramp, Katja
name: Taeger, Andreas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pamphiliidae
Onycholyda

description: Key to the Onycholyda species of the Russian Far East and Korea
1 (a) Females. ... 2
– (aa) Males. … 9
2(1)
(a) All terga black, at most with narrow posterior margin pale, without orange areas. ... 3
– (aa) Some terga largely orange… 6
3(2)
(a) Fore, mid and usually hind femora largely marked with black.
(b) Head with clypeus widely yellow medially and frons almost entirely black (Fig. 4: 3b). … O. viriditibialis, p. 66
— (aa) Femora entirely pale yellow or greenish yellow.
(bb) Head color pattern different (Fig. 4: 4a, b–5aa). … 4
4(3)
(a) Anterior margin of clypeus pale yellow (Fig. 4: 4a, b).
(b) Median ocellus surrounded by large pale yellow mark (Fig. 4: 4a, b).
(c) Clypeus rather smooth, with inconspicuous surface microsculpture and sparse punctures. ... O. zinovjevi, p. 67
– (aa) Anterior margin of clypeus with obscure pale yellow spot at middle or entirely black (Fig. 4: 4aa, bb, 5aa).
(bb)Pale yellow mark around median ocellus small, broken into four spots, posterior pair sometimes missing (Fig. 4: 4aa, bb, 5aa).
(cc) Clypeus dull, with distinct surface microsculpture. … 5
5(4)
(a) Head color pattern Fig. 4: 4aa, bb (5a); pale yellow spot present on or behind facial crest.
(b) Trochanters pale.
(c) Sterna (3–) 4–6 with broad posterior margin pale yellow or greenish yellow. … O. armata, p. 63
– (aa) Head color pattern Fig. 4: 5aa; pale yellow spot on facial crest usually missing.
(bb) Trochanters mostly black.
(cc) Sterna (3–) 4–6 entirely black, or with very narrow posterior margin pale yellow. … O. yezoensis, p. 67
6(2) (a) Mesoscutellum and metascutellum mostly or entirely black [in Chinese specimens mesoscutellum usually yellow marked]
(b) Wings distinctly yellowish, with veins mostly orange to pale brown.
(c) Head color pattern as in Fig. 4: 6c; left mandible bidentate (median tooth absent). … O. odaesana, p. 65
– (aa) Mesoscutellum and metascutellum yellow.
(bb) Wings not distinctly yellowish, with veins mostly blackish brown.
(cc) Head color pattern different (Fig. 4: 7a, b; 8a; 8aa); left mandible tridentate (small median tooth present, Fig. 4: 7a, b). … 7
7(6)
(a) Clypeus entirely black (Fig. 4: 7a, b), or with lateral parts and narrow anterior margin brownish. … O. nigroclypeata, p. 64
– (aa) Clypeus anteriorly largely pale yellow (Fig. 4: 8a; 8aa). … 8
8(7)
(a) Head color pattern as in Fig. 4: 8a.
(b) Abdominal tergum 3 usually entirely orange. … O. sertata, p. 65
– (aa) Head color pattern as in Fig. 4: 8aa.
(bb) Abdominal tergum 3 usually with large black marking. … O. kumamotonis, p. 64
9(1)
(a) Fore, mid and sometimes hind femora marked with black (Fig. 5: 9a). … O. viriditibialis, p. 66
– (aa) All femora entirely pale yellow (trochantelli may be black marked). … 10
10(9)
(a) Clypeus nearly flattened or with cup-shaped area medially, frontoclypeal crest absent ventrally (Fig. 5: 10a). … 11
– (aa) Clypeus with entire frontoclypeal crest, medially divided into lateral halves (Fig. 5: 10aa). … 14
11(10)
(a) Mesothorax below wings, including pectus, mostly or entirely pale yellow (Fig. 5: 11a).
(b) Left mandible bidentate (median tooth absent) (Fig. 5: 10a (11b)).
(c) Wings often distinctly yellowish or brownish, veins mostly orange to pale brown. … O. odaesana, p. 65
– (aa) Mesothorax below wings darker, at least pectus mostly or entirely black.
(bb) Left mandible tridentate (median tooth present, Fig. 5: 11bb).
(cc) Wings not distinctly yellowish or brownish, veins mostly dark brown to blackish brown. … 12
12(11)
(a) Abdomen with orange areas. … O. kumamotonis, p. 64
– (aa) Abdomen without orange areas. ... 13
13(12)
(a) Antennal scape completely yellow (Fig. 5: 13a).
(b) Mesoscutellum and metascutellum usually entirely black. … O. zinovjevi, p. 67
– (aa) Antennal scape yellow, outer surface with black patch (Fig. 5: 13aa).
(bb) Mesoscutellum and metascutellum pale yellow. … O. armata, p. 63
14(10)
(a) Abdomen with terga 4 and 5 orange (Fig. 14a). … O. nigroclypeata, p. 64
– (aa) Abdominal terga entirely black or with only tergum 4 orange. … 15
15(14)
(a) Stigma with basal 1/4 pale yellow (Fig. 5: 15a).
(b) Body length 7–9 mm.
(c) Abdominal terga always entirely black. … O. yezoensis, p. 67
– (aa) Stigma with basal 1/3 pale yellow (Fig. 5: 15aa).
(bb) Body length 9–12 mm.
(cc) Abdomen often with tergum 4 orange. … O. sertata, p. 65
description: Published as part of Shinohara, Akihiko, Kramp, Katja & Taeger, Andreas, 2022, The Pamphiliinae of the Russian Far East and Korea (Hymenoptera, Pamphiliidae), pp. 1-251 in Zootaxa 5167 (1) on pages 41-42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5167.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6876483