Saccharodite guamana Zelazny 1981
Creators: name: Zelazny, B.
name: Webb, M. D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Derbidae
Saccharodite
Saccharodite guamana

description: Key to the species of the Saccharodite guamana species group   
1. In front of antennae face produced and with a large, conspicuous dark mark (e.g. Fig. 267a).......................... 2  
- Face not produced in front of antennae (e.g. Fig. 282a)........................................................ 3  
 2. Clypeus brown-black................................................................ Sa. nigra sp. nov., p. 133   
 - Clypeus stramineous................................................................ Sa. aucta sp. nov., p. 128   
3. Forewings without orange or red veins, but costal margin may have orange or red sections............................ 4  
- Forewings with some veins other than costal margin orange or red (e.g. last subcostal sector), or with hindmargin around clavus tip orange red.................................................................................... 14  
 4. Pro- and mesonotum with lateral orange stripes (sometimes faint)......................... Sa. fasciata sp. nov., p. 130   
- Pro- and mesonotum without such stripes................................................................... 5  
 5. Scutellum orange.......................................................... Sa. variabilis sp. nov. (part), p. 137   
- Scutellum stramineous................................................................................. 6  
6. Forewings glassy, colourless or uniformly light yellowish brown, without traces of infuscation or spots on the veins....... 7  
- Forewings slightly powdered, with patches of infuscation which, however, are often faint; often with spots on the base of Sc+R................................................................................................... 10  
7. Frons orange or red.................................................................................... 8  
- Frons stramineous or pale yellow, but might have an orange-brown or orange-red longitudinal stripe.................... 9  
 8. Frons and facial carinae in front of eyes dark red, margins of facial carinae dark grey........... Sa. metcalfi Zelazny, p. 131   
 - Frons and facial carinae in front of eyes light orange...................................... Sa. vitrea sp. nov., p. 137   
 9. Dorsal parts of body orange or red................................................ Sa. guamana (Fennah), p. 130   
 - Dorsal parts of body pale yellow................................................ Sa. singularis Yang & Wu, p. 137   
 10. Forewings in apical half with several dark spots on R and M (Fig. 278f).................... Sa. punctata sp. nov., p. 135   
- No spots on apical forewing veins....................................................................... 11  
 11. Forewings with a conspicuous dark spot at clavus tip, contrasting with the colourless areas around Cu and Cu1 (Fig. 276f)............................................................................. Sa. nishidai sp. nov. (part), p. 133   
- Forewings without such a spot at clavus tip, if clavus tip lightly infuscated then also infuscated around Cu and Cu1 (e.g. Fig. 274f).............................................................................................. 12  
 12. Forewings with most crossveins lined with broad bands of light infuscation, giving the forewings a mottled appearance (Fig. 274f), usually most veins brownish, costa without orange or red sections..................... Sa. nervosa sp. nov., p. 132   
- Forewings with crossveins lined with faint infuscations, veins stramineous, costa with orange or red sections (occasionally faint).............................................................................................. 13  
 13. Forewings with last subcostal sector faintly orange, no small triangle at base of Ms1................................................................................................... Sa. basipunctulata (Melichar) (part), p. 128   
 - Forewings with last subcostal sector stramineous, usually a small triangle at base of Ms1....... Sa. modesta sp. nov., p. 132   
 14. Forewings with apical crossveins and short sections of adjoining main veins bright red and conspicuously lined with infuscation (Fig. 281f), remaining veins stramineous....................................... Sa. rubilineata sp. nov., p. 136   
- Forewings not coloured in this way...................................................................... 15  
 15. Most parts of head and body dark red to reddish brown.................................. Sa. purpurea sp. nov., p. 135   
- Head and body stramineous, orange or with orange marks.................................................... 16  
16. Forewings with hind margin around clavus tip orange or orange red, other veins may also be orange................... 17  
- Forewings with hind margin and veins around clavus tip stramineous or only faintly orange; however, other veins may be orange............................................................................................. 19  
 17. Forewings with a triangle at base of Ms1 (Fig. 282f), colour of head stramineous or faintly orange................................................................................................... Sa. variabilis sp. nov., p. 137   
- Forewings without a triangle at base of Ms1 (e.g. Fig. 280f), most parts of head orange or orange-red.................. 18  
 18. Pronotum and mesonotum orange...................................................... Sa. rosea sp. nov., p. 136   
 - Pronotum stramineous, mesonotum light orange-brown with scutellum stramineous........... Sa. dionaea sp. nov., p. 129   
 19. Forewings with a large infuscated mark between apex of Sc and base of Ms3 (Fig. 269f); veins inside this mark bright orangered, remaining veins stramineous.................................................... Sa. egregia sp. nov., p. 129   
- Forewings without such a mark, if coloured veins present, then not confined to this position......................... 20  
20. Mesonotum orange, orange-brown or red.................................................................. 21  
- Mesonotum stramineous or light brown................................................................... 22  
 21. Forewings lightly and nearly uniformly infuscated, without or with small clear areas (Fig. 271f); veins usually uniformly coloured, pale brown, orange, or red................................................ Sa. guamana (Fennah), p. 130   
 - Forewings colourless, near some crossveins clouded with infuscation; veins stramineous to light brown, with orange sections in infuscated areas............................................................. Sa. palauensis (Fennah), p. 134   
 22. Forewings with many veins bright orange-red........................................ Sa. insulana sp. nov., p. 131   
- Forewings with few veins orange........................................................................ 23  
 23. Forewings with a conspicuous dark spot at clavus tip (Fig. 276f); last subcostal sector stramineous Sa. nishidai sp. nov., p. 133   
- Forewings without such a dark spot at clavus tip, last subcostal sector orange.................................... 24  
 24. Some orange marks on head and thorax, e.g. junction of frons and clypeus often distinctly orange................................................................................................... Sa. ponapeana sp. nov., p. 134   
 - Head and thorax stramineous, but margins of facial carinae may be orange................................................................................................................ Sa. basipunctulata (Melichar), p. 128
description: Published as part of Zelazny, B. & Webb, M. D., 2011, 3071, pp. 1-307 in Zootaxa 3071 on pages 127-128