Calyptobates
Creators: name: Jehamalar, E. Eyarin
name: Chandra, Kailash
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Gerridae
Calyptobates

description: Key to the species of Calyptobates
1. Entire venter completely dark medially, except prosternum; mesonotum without yellow stripes; light markings, if present, poorly defined, on lower pleural region of mesonotum............................. C. minimus Polhemus & Polhemus
- Entire venter not completely dark, mesosternum with light markings............................................ 2
2. Basal one fourth of fore femur yellowish, rarely basal one third in females; base of mid femur narrowly yellowish........ 3
- Basal half of fore femur yellowish; base of mid-femur broadly yellowish (Figs. 1 F, 2F, G)............................ 6
3. Mesonotal yellow stripe absent or barely present..................................... C. kopi Polhemus & Polhemus
- Mesonotal yellow stripe broad........................................................................... 4
4. Mesonotal yellow stripe widely separated, not fused anteriorly, in males the stripes are linear................................................................................................... C. jourama Polhemus & Polhemus
- Mesonotal yellow stripe fused anteriorly................................................................... 5
5. Mesonotal yellow stripe fused anteriorly in both sexes.............................. C. rubidus Polhemus & Polhemus
- Mesonotal yellow stripe broad and fused anteriorly in males, but in females widely separated................................................................................................... C. simplex Polhemus & Polhemus
6. Mesonotal yellow stripe fused anteriorly......................................... C. kamoro Polhemus & Polhemus
- Mesonotal yellow stripe widely separated anteriorly (Figs. 1A, B, 2A, B)......................................... 7
7. Mesosternal median dark mark indistinctly or not confluent with the posterior transverse dark mark (Figs. 2F, G).......... 8
- Mesosternal median dark mark distinctly confluent with the posterior transverse dark mark.......................... 9
8. Mesopleural dark stripe broad, mostly reaching posterior margin (Fig. 1C); hind trochanters of female not convergent, when specimens are in dry condition, apex not produced and without fringe of long hairs, (Fig. 1B).................................................................................................. C. andaman Polhemus & Polhemus
- Dark longitudinal stripe on mesopleura absent (Figs. 2C, D), hind trochanter of female convergent, when specimens are in dry condition, apex slightly bluntly produced and fringed with long hairs (Figs. 1 E, 2B, G)................. C. rajani sp. nov.
9. Light markings on mesonotum absent or linear and parallel....................... C. samarinda Polhemus & Polhemus
- Light markings on mesonotum broad, diverge posteriorly........................... C. amboina Polhemus & Polhemus
description: Published as part of Jehamalar, E. Eyarin & Chandra, Kailash, 2014, On the genus Calyptobates Polhemus & Polhemus (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Gerridae) from India with description of a new species and a key to the species of World, pp. 285-292 in Zootaxa 3873 (3) on page 286, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3873.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/227057