Brasineura Silva-Neto & García Aldrete 2015
Creators: name: Lima, Daniel Moura
name: Silva-Neto, Alberto Moreira Da
name: García Aldrete, Alfonso N.
name: Bravo, Freddy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Ptiloneuridae
Brasineura

description: Key to the males of Brasineura species, modified from Silva-Neto et al. (2018)
1. Phallosomal side struts proximally not fused (Figs 7, 21)...................................................... 2
-. Phallosomal side struts proximally fused (Figs 28 –32 in Silva-Neto et al. 2018).................................... 3
2. Hypandrium without a projection in the middle (Fig.6); phallosome with two pairs of endophallic sclerites, external parameres distally forked (Fig. 7)....................................................................... B.calori sp. n.
-. Hypandrium with a projection in the middle (Fig. 20); phallosome with three pairs of endophallic sclerites, external parameres distally not forked (Fig. 21)............................................................... B. morrense sp. n.
3. External parameres distally not forked (Figs 28, 31 in Silva-Neto et al. 2018)...................................... 4
-. External parameres distally forked (Figs 29, 30, 32 in Silva-Neto et al. 2018)...................................... 5
4. Antero-mesal pair of endophallic sclerites sinuous, with a row of tiny spines in the middle, and distally acuminate; external parameres distally with a small area more sclerotized, almost triangular (Fig. 28 in Silva-Neto et al. 2018)........................................................................................................ B. diamantina
-. Antero-mesal pair of endophallic sclerites bow-shaped, without spines and distally not acuminate; external parameres distally with an acuminate projection, curved outwards (Fig. 31 in Silva-Neto et al. 2018)............................ B. jiboia
5. Phallobase with numerous small tripartite structures, spine-like; antero-mesal pair of endophallic sclerites short, stout and arising in the middle of the phallosome (Fig. 32 in Silva-Neto et al. 2018).................................... B. spinosa
-. Phallobase without spine-like structures; antero-mesal pair of endophallic sclerites long, slender and arising in the region of the phallobase........................................................................................... 6
6. Hypandrium with a projection in the middle (Fig. 6 in Silva-Neto et al. 2016); external parameres distally with three acuminate projections (Fig. 30 in Silva-Neto et a l. 2018); paraprocts elongate, distally curved outwards (Fig. 5 in Silva-Neto et al. 2016c)................................................................................. B. serranortensis
-. Hypandrium without a projection in the middle (Fig. 13 in Silva-Neto & García Aldrete 2015); external parameres distally with two acuminate projections (Fig. 29 in Silva-Neto et al. 2018); paraprocts not elongate, distally not curved outwards (Fig. 12 in Silva-Neto & García Aldrete 2015 ............................................................. B. troglophilica
description: Published as part of Lima, Daniel Moura, Silva-Neto, Alberto Moreira Da, García Aldrete, Alfonso N. & Bravo, Freddy, 2020, Brasineura Silva-Neto & García Aldrete (Psocodea, ' Psocoptera', Ptiloneuridae) new species, new records and variation in the wing venations, pp. 375-384 in Zootaxa 4819 (2) on page 376, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4819.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/4440694