Pilophorus
Creators: name: Yasunaga, Tomohide
name: Yamada, Kazutaka
name: Artchawakom, Taksin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Pilophorus

description: Key to known Thai species of Pilophorus
1. Antennal segment I longer than width of head across eyes (Fig. 3 E)...................................... portentosus
- Antennal segment I much shorter than width of head across eyes (Figs. 1–2, 3 A–D)................................. 2
2. Pronotum conspicuously modified, either strongly constricted or horned (Fig. 3 A–D)............................... 3
- Pronotum of a conventional shape, not modified (Figs. 1–2).................................................. 6
3. Pronotum with a pair of horn-like projections (Fig. 3 A)................................................ barbiger
- Pronotum without such projections....................................................................... 4
4. Basic coloration ocherous brown, partly amber; pronotum with a long, necklike, cylindrical constriction medially (Fig. 3 B).............................................................................................. giraffoides
- Basic coloration castaneous or coffee brown; pronotum evidently constricted but not forming such an elongate neck....... 5
5. Head wider than high in frontal view; hemelytral clavi with a distinct, golden macula (formed by aggregation of golden, reclin- ing setae) just posterior to scutellum (Fig. 3 C)....................................................... maculatus
- Head higher than wide in frontal view; claval macula obscured, composed of short, sparse, brownish-golden setae (Fig. 3 D)................................................................................................ pleiku
6. Pronotum highly polished, very shiny (Figs. 1 D–E, 2A–C).................................................... 7
- Pronotum weakly shining, somewhat mat or shagreened...................................................... 8
7. Body generally dark brown to fuscous; a transverse fascia of scalelike setae across posterior corium scattered; HCR <0.63 (Fig. 1 D–E)................................................................................... meteorus
- Body generally ochreous brown; a posterior fascia of scalelike setae across corium continuous; HCR> 0.71 (Fig. 2 A–C)................................................................................................ saovapruki
8. Antennal segment I pale, dorsally with two stripes (Fig. 1 A–B).......................................... swimonae
- Antennal segment I almost concolorous, without any stripe.................................................... 9
9. Corium and clavus always reddish brown mesially (Fig. 2 D–F)............................................ alstoni
- Hemelytra without reddish brown portion................................................................. 10
10. Body subparallel-sided, not much antlike; HCR> 0.81; scutellum lacking distinct patch of silvery setae (Fig. 1 C)................................................................................................... subparallelus
- Body antlike; HCR <0.72; scutellum with patches of silvery setae (Fig. 1 F).................................. typicus
description: Published as part of Yasunaga, Tomohide, Yamada, Kazutaka & Artchawakom, Taksin, 2014, Additional records and descriptions of the ant-mimetic plant bug genus Pilophorus from Thailand (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Pilophorini), pp. 1-15 in Zootaxa 3795 (1) on pages 3-4, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3795.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/286014