Coriophagus Kinzelbach 1971
Creators: name: Hui, Poulami
name: Mukherjee, Bindarika
name: Hazra, Niladri
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Strepsiptera
Halictophagidae
Coriophagus

description: A world key to the species of the genus Coriophagus Kinzelbach, 1971 (Male)
1. Total length less than 2.5 mm ........................................................................... 2
- Total length greater than 2.5 mm ......................................................................... 6
2(1). Posterior margin of postlumbium straight (Fig. 7)...... Coriophagus monteithi Kathirithamby, 1992 (Australasia: Australia)
- Posterior margin of postlumbium sinuate................................................................... 3
3(2). Detached vein R 2 slender, longer than R 3 (Fig. 8)...................................................................................................... Coriophagus maai Kifune & Hirashima, 1989 (Australasia: New Guinea)
- Detached vein R 2 broad, shorter than R 3 vein............................................................... 4
4(3). Detached vein R 3 touching R 4 vein (Fig. 4)............................. Coriophagus chaudhuri sp. n. (Orient: India)
- Detached vein R
3 not touching R
4 vein..................................................................... 5
5(4). Detached vein R 2 (Fig. 9) meets anterolateral margin of hind wing....................................................................................................... Coriophagus jennyae Kogan, 2012 (Neotropics: Brazil)
- Detached vein R 2 (Fig. 10) does not meet anterolateral margin of hind wing.......................................................................................... Coriophagus casui Cowley, 1984 (Australasia: New Zealand)
6(1). Apex of maxillary palp pointed.......................................................................... 7
- Apex of maxillary palp blunt............................................................................ 8
7(6). Flabellum of antennomere III broader than rest of flabella (Fig. 11)................................................................................................ Coriophagus adebratti Kathirithamby, 1993 (Orient: Malaysia)
- Flabellum of antennomere III as broad as rest of flabella (Fig. 12)............................................................................................ Coriophagus medleri Luna de Carvalho, 1972b (Afrotopics: Nigeria)
8(6). Number of ommatidia in each eye 25 or less................................................................ 9
- Number of ommatidia in each eye greater than 25........................................................... 13
9(8). Mandibles shorter than maxillae........................................................................ 10
- Mandibles longer than maxillae......................................................................... 11
10(9). Total length less than 3.00 mm; eyes with around 15 ommatidia; R 2 vein broader than R 3 vein; length of dorsal hook of aedeagus greater than that of ventral prong (Fig. 13)............... Coriophagus zanzibarae (Bohart, 1962) (Afrotropics: Tanzania)
- Total length greater than 3.00 mm; eyes with around 22 ommatidia; R 2 vein as broad as R 3 vein; length of dorsal hook of aedeagus shorter than that of ventral prong (Fig. 14)........... Coriophagus hansoni Cook, 2019 (Neotropics: Costa Rica)
11(9). Total length less than 3.00 mm; number of ommatidia less than 20 per eye; R 2 vein 1/3rd length of R 3; posterior margin of poslumbium sinuate (Fig. 15)............................. Coriophagus calcaneus Roy & Hazra, 2016 (Orient: India)
- Total length greater than 3.00 mm; number of ommatidia greater than 20 per eye; length of R 2 vein greater than 1/3rd of R 3 vein; posterior margin of postlumbium straight................................................................. 12
12(11). Eyes with around 25 ommatidia; postnotum with pointed tip (Fig.16); R 2 vein half as long as R 3 ....................................................................... Coriophagus borneoensis Kathirithamby, 1993 (Orient: Malaysia)
- Eyes with around 20 ommatidia; postnotum with rounded tip (Fig.17); R 2 vein 2/3rd length of R 3; tip of postnotum rounded................................. Coriophagus gressittorum Kifune & Hirashima, 1989 (Australasia: Solomon Islands)
13(8). Total length greater than 4.00 mm; prescutum straight; postnotum with rounded tip (Fig.18)............................................................................... Coriophagus rieki Kinzelbach, 1971 (Australasia: Australia)
- Total length less than 4.00 mm; prescutum sinuate; postnotum with pointed tip................................... 14
14(13). Eyes with around 50 ommatidia; anterior part of scutellum pointed; postlumbium moderately narrow at middle (Fig. 19).............................................. Coriophagus lockerbiensis Kathirithamby, 1992 (Australasia: Australia)
- Eyes with around 40 ommatidia; anterior part of scutellum rounded; postlumbium uniformly very narrow (Fig. 20)................................................... Coriophagus latimanus Luna de Carvalho, 1972a (Afrotropics: Angola)
description: Published as part of Hui, Poulami, Mukherjee, Bindarika & Hazra, Niladri, 2023, Coriophagus chaudhuri sp. n. (Strepsiptera: Halictophagidae: Coriophaginae): a male strepsipteran from Jharkhand, India with a tentative phylogeny and world key to known males, pp. 131-150 in Zootaxa 5346 (2) on pages 141-146, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5346.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8354494