Dashymenia
Creators: name: Wolski, Andrzej
name: Gorczyca, Jacek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Dashymenia

description: Key to species of Dashymenia
1. Body smaller than 3.5 mm; antennal segment I short, shorter than half width of vertex, narrowed basally, strongly broadened
towards apex, nearly triangular in outline; sensory lobe of left paramere with characteristically curved process (see Gorczyca & Wolski 2006: Fig 3)......................................................... D. kerzhneri Gorczyca & Wolski - Body larger than 3.5 mm; antennal segment I longer than half width of vertex, usually cylindrical or slightly narrowed basally (Fig. 74); sensory lobe of left paramere usually flattened or indistinctly convex..................................... 2
2. Scutellum entirely dark brown to black (Fig. 7); antennal segment IV with relatively broad, dark brown or reddish annulation basally and apically (Fig. 7)............................................................................. 3
- Scutellum with more or less developed, yellowish or orange tinge apically (Figs. 5–6, 10–12); antennal segment IV entirely yellow to dirty yellowish............................................................................... 4
3. Antennal segment II with numerous brown spots (Fig. 7)..................................... D. conspersa sp. nov.
- Antennal segment II brown, paler basally................................................ D. macgillavryi Poppius
4. Pronotum orange with broad, black patch along midline of posterior lobe and with broad, orange transverse stripe on corium apically; scutellum entirely orange......................................................... D. croesus (Distant)
- Pronotum dark brown to blackish, only with yellowish or orange tinge laterally, if pronotum entirely blackish, then dorsum is blackish with contrasting orange patch on scutellum and hemelytron apically; hemelytron entirely dark brown or with relatively narrow, orange patch on corium apically.............................................................. 5
5. Head entirely dark brown................................................................ D. remus (Distant)
- Head varying from yellow, sometimes with brownish tinges to reddish or brownish (Figs. 5–6, 9–12)................... 6
6. Antennal segment I uniformly reddish or dark red (Figs. 10–11); DSS long, straight, and sharply pointed (D. tenmalai) (Fig. 80)................................................................................................. 7
- Antennal segment I yellowish, with reddish rings: one situated beyond base and other situated apically (Figs. 5–6, 12), if reddish rings absent, then yellow stripes at sides of pronotum well developed (Fig. 9); DSS more or less distinctly curved, not sharply pointed (Figs. 57, 60, 84)......................................................................... 8
7. Scutellum orange, with distinct dark brown patch medially, originating from base (Figs. 10–11)....... D. tenmalai sp. nov.
- Scutellum black brown basally, yellow red apically........................................ D. convexicollis Poppius
8. Antennal segment I entirely yellow without reddish annulations; yellow stripes at sides of pronotum well developed, occupying nearly one third of its surface (Fig. 9)............................................ D. kotejai Wolski & Gorczyca
- Antennal segment I yellowish, with reddish rings: one situated beyond base and other situated apically (Figs. 5–6, 12); yellow stripes at sides of pronotum distinctly narrower, hardly visible in dorsal view (Figs. 5–6, 12).......................... 9
9. Lateral yellow stripe on pronotum narrow, not visible in dorsal view (Fig. 12); MES and PES almost straight and relatively small (Fig. 84)........................................................................... D. webbi sp. nov.
- Lateral yellow stripe on pronotum broader, well visible in dorsal view (Figs. 5–6); MES strongly curved, sharply pointed apically; PES composed of two sclerites: one large and hook-shaped, other distinctly narrowed toward apex (Figs. 57, 60).... 10
10. PES with smaller sclerite obtuse and large hook-shaped sclerite without swelling posteriorly (Figs. 60–61, arrows)............................................................................................. D. colubrina sp. nov.
- PES with smaller sclerite sharply pointed, hook-shaped sclerite with swelling posteriorly (Figs. 57–58, arrows)................................................................................................. D. cognata sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Wolski, Andrzej & Gorczyca, Jacek, 2012, Plant bugs of the tribe Bothriomirini (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Cylapinae) from the Oriental Region: descriptions of eight new species and keys to Oriental genera and species of Bothriomiris Kirkaldy, Dashymenia Poppius, and Dashymeniella Poppius, pp. 1-41 in Zootaxa 3412 on pages 18-19, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.214715