Pristocera Klug 1808
Creators: name: Azevedo, Celso O.
name: Alencar, Isabel D. C. C.
name: Colombo, Wesley D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Bethylidae
Pristocera

description: Key to species of Pristocera from Madagascar for females
1. Median clypeal lobe tridentate (Fig. 6A)................................................................... 2
- Median clypeal lobe trapezoidal (Fig. 14A)................................................................. 6
2. First abdominal spiracle circular (Figs 8C; 20C)............................................................. 3
- First abdominal spiracle oval (Fig. 4C)..................................................................... 4
3. Mandible with distal teeth gradually wider ventrad (Fig. 8B); petiole with anterolateral corner subangulate (Fig. 8D).............................................................................................. P. gloriae sp. nov.
- Mandible with distal teeth subequals (Fig. 20B); petiole with anterolateral corner angulate (Fig. 20C–D)... P. zubai sp. nov.
4. Mandible with ventral tooth, dorsal view (Fig. 6B); petiole with anterolateral corner rounded (Fig. 6D).... P. martyi sp. nov.
- Mandible without ventral tooth, dorsal view (Fig. 4B); petiole with anterolateral corner never rounded (Fig. 18D)......... 5
5. Median clypeal lobe without rounded apical projection (Fig. 4B); petiole with anterolateral corner angulate (Fig. 4E)............................................................................................... P. alexi sp. nov.
- Median clypeal lobe with rounded apical projection (Fig. 18A); petiole with anterolateral corner subangulate (Fig. 18D)............................................................................................ P. teetsi sp. nov.
6. First abdominal spiracle circular (Fig. 14C)................................................. P. mauricei sp. nov.
- First abdominal spiracle oval (Fig. 24C).................................................................... 7
7. Mandible with upper three teeth subequals (Fig. 24B)........................................ P. cambouei Saussure
- Mandible with upper three teeth gradually wider ventrad (Fig. 22B).............................................. 8
8. Petiole with anterolateral never corner rounded (Fig. 22D)..................................... P. levicolllis (Kieffer)
- Petiole with anterolateral corner rounded (Fig. 24B).......................................................... 9
9. Clypeal margin crenulated (Fig. 16B)..................................................................... 10
- Clypeal margin not crenulated (Fig. 2B)................................................................... 11
10. Petiole with anterolateral corner broadly rounded (Fig. 16D)................................... P. makungai sp. nov.
- Petiole with anterolateral corner rounded (Fig. 10C)............................................ P. julieni sp. nov.
11. Mandible without small rounded ventral tooth, dorsal view (Fig. 12B)............................... P. morti sp. nov.
- Mandible with small rounded ventral tooth, dorsal view (Fig. 2A)................................ P. melmani sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Azevedo, Celso O., Alencar, Isabel D. C. C. & Colombo, Wesley D., 2018, Pairs in copulation of the highly dimorphic genus Pristocera Klug (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from Madagascar solve taxonomic problems of male-female associations, pp. 1-49 in Zootaxa 4433 (1) on page 4, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4433.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/1456068