Neochauliodes
Creators: name: Liu, Xingyue
name: Hayashi, Fumio
name: Yang, Ding
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Megaloptera
Corydalidae
Neochauliodes

description: Key to adults of Neochauliodes from India and adjacent regions in South Asia
1. Posterior second and third veins of Rs strongly curved posteriad (Fig. 7) ................................. N. truncatus Kimmins
- All branches of Rs without distinct curve (Figs 1–6) ................................................................................................... 2
2. Wings dark with several small hyaline spots (Fig. 4); female eighth sternum with posterior margin acutely produced (Fig. 24). ............................................................................................................................... N. obscurus van der Weele
- Wings hyaline with dark markings; female eighth sternum with roundly convex posterior margin............................ 3
3. Forewings and hindwings with broad dark transverse markings (Fig. 6) .......................... N. subfasciatus (Westwood)
- Wings without broad transverse markings.................................................................................................................... 4
4. Male ninth tergum broadened ventrally, forming sinuate posterior margin in lateral view (Figs 15, 20); lateral arms of male tenth sternum fused with median plate without protrusion (Figs 14, 19); female ninth gonocoxite much shorter than tenth tergum (Figs 16, 21)......................................................................................................................... 5
- Male ninth tergum narrowed and produced posteroventrad (Figs 8, 25, 30, 35); lateral arms of male tenth sternum connected with median plate by narrow protrusions (Figs 9, 26, 31, 36); female tenth tergum subequal in length to ninth gonocoxite............................................................................................................................................................ 6
5. Forewings with markings on proximal half of costal areas punctuate and clearly isolated from each other (Fig. 3); male tenth tergum with distomedial surface round (Fig. 18)....................................................... N. nepalensis sp. nov.
- Forewings with markings on proximal half of costal areas subquadrate and almost contiguous with neighbouring cellules (Fig. 2); male tenth tergum with distomedial surface angulate (Fig. 13) ............... N. indicus (van der Weele)
6. Forewing length 28–34 mm in male and 38–40 mm in female; male tenth sternum with median plate slightly broadened medially and laterally with a pair of elevated ridges in ventral view (Fig. 9) ...................... N. fletcheri Kimmins
- Forewing length 27 mm in male and 29–33 mm in female; male tenth sternum with median plate gradually narrowed apically and laterally without distinct ridges in ventral view (Fig. 26) .......................................... N. simplex (Walker)
description: Published as part of Liu, Xingyue, Hayashi, Fumio & Yang, Ding, 2010, Revision of the fishfly genus Neochauliodes van der Weele (Megaloptera: Corydalidae) from India and adjacent regions of South Asia, pp. 33-50 in Zootaxa 2692 on pages 34-35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.199566