Spurostigma Eertmoed
Creators: name: Neto, Alberto Moreira Da Silva
name: García, Alfonso N.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Psocodea
Spurostigmatidae
Spurostigma

description: Key to the species of Spurostigma Eertmoed
(modified from García Aldrete, 2009)
1. Forewing Rs-M joined by a crossvein...................................................................... 2
-. Forewing Rs-M diverging from a point or fused for a distance.................................................. 7
2. Forewing with a pigmented pattern........................................................................ 3
-. Forewing without a pigmented pattern..................................................................... 4
3. No brown areolae on setal bases of veins on proximal half of forewing; forewing veins R2+3 to areola postica distinctly angu- late distally. Central Bolivia ........................................................ S. boliviana García Aldrete
-. With brown areolae on setal bases of veins on proximal half of forewing; veins R2+3 to areola postica not angulate distally. Puerto Rico ...................................................................... S. portoricensis Eertmoed
4. Forewing areola postica with a pigmented spot on apex....................................................... 5
-. Forewing areola postica without a pigmented spot on apex..................................................... 6
5. Brown areolae at the base of setae on veins R, M-Cu, Cu1, A1, and A2; female epiproct with a black spot at each antero-lateral corner and at the distal tip. Puerto Rico .................................................... S. nesiotis Eertmoed
-. Without brown areolae at the base of setae on veins indicated above, female epiproct without black spots as above. Cuba ........................................................................................... S. cuba Eertmoed
6. A light brown spot on proximal angle of areola postica. Southern Mexico ........................ S. epirotica Eertmoed
-. Without a light brown spot on areola postica. Surinam ...................................... S. mesembria Eertmoed
7. Forewing venation caeciliusid (Rs with two branches, M with three branches)...................................... 8
-. Forewing vein M3 five branched and joined to areola postica. Dominican Republic .............. S. hispaniola Eertmoed
8. Areola postica with a pigmented spot on apex............................................................... 9
-. Areola postica without a pigmented spot on apex............................................................ 12
9. Forewing membrane with a distinct pigmented spot on Rs-M junction, and basally above A2 and A1. Cuba ................................................................................................... S. jimenezi Badonnel
-. Forewing membrane without pigmented spots as above...................................................... 10
10. Brown areola at setal bases on R, M-Cu, Cu1, A1, and A2. Dominica .............................. S. insula Eertmoed
-. Without brown areola at setal bases on veins indicated above.................................................. 11
11. Frontal sutures distinct, frons uniformly brown; subgenital plate brown, not bordered posteriorly with black. Dominica ........................................................................................ S. dominica Eertmoed
-. Frontal sutures indistinct, frons markings indistinct; subgenital plate brown, bordered posteriorly with black. Guyana ............................................................................................ S. guyana Eertmoed
12. Phallosome anteriorly straight, with a mid, longitudinal fissure that divides in two the anterior half. Endophallus well defined. Canal Zone, Panama ........................................................................ S. panamensis.
- Phallosome anteriorly concave in the middle, without a mid, longitudinal fissure. Endophallus not well defined. Bahia, Brazil ....................................................................................... S. caatinga n. sp.
description: Published as part of Neto, Alberto Moreira Da Silva & García, Alfonso N., 2012, A new species of Spurostigma Eertmoed (Psocodea: ' Psocoptera': Spurostigmatidae) from Brazil, pp. 83-87 in Zootaxa 3501 on pages 85-86, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.210329