Pleurocerinella BRUNETTI 1923
Creators: name: Stuke, Jens-Hermann
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Conopidae
Pleurocerinella

description: Key to the species of the genus Pleurocerinella BRUNETTI, 1923   
 1 Wing cell r1 with at least the basal half lacking microtrichia; all femora uniformly black or dark brown; distribution: Palaearctic and Oriental regions.......................................... 2   
 - Wing cell r1 completely or mostly covered with microtrichia; fore and middle femora orange brown or clearly paler than the hind femur; distribution: Afrotropical region............... 5   
 2 Anterior anepisternum shining, with a dense dusted stripe posteriorly (Fig. 18); ♂ -genitalia: epandrium margins fused completely distal to the cerci; lacks a robust single tooth at the tip of the aedeagus (Fig. 28)...............................  srilankai STUKE &SAMRAS spec. nov.    
 - Anepisternum completely dusted, or if shining, then without a dense dusted stripe; ♂ - genitalia: epandrium margins separated distal to the cerci (character state remains unknown in tibialis); may have an obvious robust single tooth at the tip of the aedeagus (at present, only known in dioctriaeformis).................................................................................... 3   
 3 Anepisternum, postpronotum, edges of the mesoscutum and upper part of the frons shining; wing apex not clearly brownish-tinged; last segment of the male abdomen (tergite 6) elongated (Fig. 22); structure of the aedeagus remains unknown.................  violaceae KRÖBER, 1930    
 - Anepisternum, postpronotum, edges of the mesoscutum and upper part of the frons obviously dusted; wing apex clearly brownish tinged; last segment of the male abdomen (tergite 6) of dioctriaeformis not elongated (Fig. 23), ♂ of tibialis remains unknown............... 4   
 4 Mesoscutum only dusted laterally, shining medially; ♂ -genitalia: single robust tooth at the tip of the aedeagus as in Fig. 26..................................  dioctriaeformis BRUNETTI, 1923    
 - Mesoscutum completely dusted; ♂ -genitalia remains unknown.....  tibialis CHEN, 1939    
 5 Wing completely covered with microtrichia; femora and tibiae orange; hind femur lacking black spines ventrally; mesoscutum shining laterally; ♂ -genitalia: epandrium margins fused completely distal to the cerci; tooth at the tip of the aedeagus as in Figur 25...............................................................................................................  albohalterata SMITH, 1960    
 - Wing cells bm and br lacking microtrichia basally; at least hind femur dark-brown to lightbrown; hind femur with or without black spines ventrally; mesoscutum dusted laterally; ♂ -genitalia: epandrium margins separated or fused distal to the cerci.......................... 6   
 6 Mesoscutum dusted laterally and medially, submedially shining; tooth at the tip of the aedeagus as in Fig. 30..........................................................  copelandi STUKE spec. nov.    
 - Mesoscutum only dusted laterally, medially shining.................................................... 7
description: Published as part of Stuke, Jens-Hermann, 2009, Vier neue Arten der Gattung Pleurocerinella B, 1923 und Anmerkungen zu weiteren Arten der Gattung (Diptera: Conopidae), pp. 211-231 in Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 59 (1) on page 230, DOI: 10.21248/contrib.entomol.59.1.211-231, http://zenodo.org/record/5364706