Tylospilus Stal 1870
Creators: name: Brugnera, Ricardo
name: Paim, Marcelo Reginato
name: Roell, Talita
name: Dellapé, Gimena
name: Grazia, Jocelia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pentatomidae
Tylospilus

description: Key to the species of Tylospilus Stål, 1870 (modified from Thomas, 1992)
1. Longitudinal pale yellow stripe on clypeus and midline of pronotum present; humeral angles concolour with disc of pronotum................................................................................................ 2
- Longitudinal pale yellow stripe on clypeus and midline of pronotum absent (if present, never in both clypeus and pronotum); humeral angles discolour with disc of pronotum............................................................. 3
2. Humeral angles length distinctly greater than diameter of eye............................ T. distans Bergroth (Fig. 42)
- Humeral angles length subequal to the eye diameter................................ T. peruvianus (Horváth) (Fig. 43)
3. Humeral angles distinctly forwardly directed......................................... T. acutissimus Stål (Fig. 44)
- Humeral angles laterally directed......................................................................... 4
4. Clypeus contrastingly black or fumose; pro-, meso-, and metapleura lacking pale callosities.. T. chilensis (Spinola) (Fig. 45)
- Clypeus concolour with mandibular plates; pro-, meso-, and/or metapleura with pale callosities....................... 5
5. Anterior half of anterolateral margins of pronotum pale calloused, smooth......................................... 6
- Anterolateral margins of pronotum not calloused, crenulated................................................... 7
6. Scutellum with an entire black macula on the constriction portion; urosternites with pale calloused spots on all segments.............................................................................. T. megaspilus (Walker) (Fig. 47)
- Scutellum with 1+1 black bands on the constriction portion; urosternites pale yellow, without callosities.................................................................................................. T. cloelia Stål (Fig. 46)
7. Humeral angles strongly developed with apices dorsally directed; black spots on apices of radial veins equal to eye diameter; 1+1 pale calloused spots posterior to ostiolar peritremes present; a mesial row of black spots on urosternites IV–VII............................................................................... T. nigrobinotatus Berg (Figs 17–19)
- Humeral angles developed more laterally; black spots on apices of radial veins smaller than eye diameter; pale calloused spots posterior to ostiolar peritremes absent; VII urosternite with a mesial black spot..................................................................................... T. armatusimilis Brugnera, Paim & Grazia sp. nov. (Figs 20–22)
description: Published as part of Brugnera, Ricardo, Paim, Marcelo Reginato, Roell, Talita, Dellapé, Gimena & Grazia, Jocelia, 2020, Taxonomic modifications in Tylospilus Stål (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae: Asopinae) redescription of T. nigrobinotatus (Berg), description of a new species and an updated identification key for the genus, pp. 128-138 in Zootaxa 4766 (1) on pages 135-136, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4766.1.6, http://zenodo.org/record/3762612