Danuriella Westwood 1889
Creators: name: Roy, Roger
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Mantodea
Mantidae
Danuriella

description: KEY FOR THE SPECIES OF DANURIELLA WESTWOOD, 1889
D. viettei and D. madagascariensis can be differentiated with certainty only by male genitalia, which are also important for the distinction of the other species. The hypophallus is the most important to consider.
1. Fore femora with a dorsal process ................................................................................................................ 2
— Fore femora without dorsal process ............................................................................................................. 4
2. Fore femora with a large dorsal process at level of the last two posteroventral spines and a smaller one near their basis .................................................................................................................................. D. griveaudi n. sp.
— Fore femora with only a lobule at level of the last posteroventral spine (Comoros) ...................................... 3
3. Hind femora with a posterior subapical lobule ............................................................... D. mayottensis n. sp.
— Hind femora without lobule ......................................................................................... D. anjouanensis n. sp.
4. Mid femora with posterior lobules .............................................................................................................. 5
— Mid femora without lobules .................................................................................................. D. tigrina n. sp.
5. Mid femora with a single lobule .................................................................................................................. 6
— Mid femora with two lobules ...................................................................................................................... 7
6. Hind tibiae with lobules, larger for females ...................................................................... D. andapensis n. sp
— Hind tibiae without lobules, large body size ...................................................................... D. merigueti n. sp.
7. Hind femora with posterior lobules ............................................................................................................. 8
— Hind femora without lobules .................................................................................................................... 10
8. Hind femora with only a subapical lobule; hind tibiae with only small bulges ............................................. 9
— Hind femora with a small median lobule and a subapical lobule; hind tibiae with two acute lobules ............... ......................................................................................................................... D. marojejyensis Paulian, 1961
9. Mid femora with its lobules separated by twice their width; mid tibiae with an external expansion with two points ........................................................................................................... D. altera (Beier, 1929) n. comb.
— Mid femora with its lobules widely separated; mid tibiae with two separate lobules ................. D. sogai n. sp.
10. Mid femora with the lobules separated by about their width; hind tibiae as long as or a little shorter than the metazone of pronotum .............................................................................................................................. 11
— Mid femora with the lobules small, distant from about twice their width; hind tibiae longer than the metazone of pronotum .................................................................................................. D. irregularis Westwood, 1889.
11. Metazone about 2.4 times as long as prozone; hind wings brown ......................................... D. andriai n. sp.
— Metazone 2.0-2.3 times as long as prozone; hind wings of males beige .................................................... 12
12. Size larger, coloration darker, tubercles above ocelli longer ..................................................... D. viettei n. sp.
— Size weaker, coloration lighter, tubercles above ocelli shorter ..................... D. madagascariensis (Beier, 1929).
Annexe 2. — Traduction en anglais de la clé des espèces de Danuriella Westwood, 1889, d’après les genitalia mâles (hypophallus)
KEY FOR THE SPECIES OF DANURIELLA WESTWOOD, 1889 BASED FROM MALES GENITALIA (HYPOPHALLUS)
Male genitalia are not known for D. mayottensis n. sp. and D. tigrina n. sp.
1. Hypophallus with a single triangular process ................................................................... D. andapensis n. sp.
— Hypophallus with two processes .................................................................................................................. 2
2. The two processes not spaced apart, the median one triangular ......................................... D. merigueti n. sp.
— The two processes spaced apart..................................................................................................................... 3
3. The two processes narrow ............................................................................................................................ 4
— The two processes of different widths.. ........................................................................................................ 5
4. The two processes short, the median one a little longer ............................... D. madagascariensis (Beier, 1929)
— The median process about twice longer ................................................................................ D. andriai n. sp.
5. The median process wider ........................................................................................................................... 6
— The lateral process wider .............................................................................................................................. 7
6. The median process more or less long, rounded .............................................. D. irregularis Westwood, 1889
— The median process triangular ...................................................................... D. altera (Beier, 1929) n. comb.
7. The lateral process rounded ......................................................................................................................... 8
— The lateral process with posterior edge almost straight ............................................................................... 10
8. The median process sloping to the right ................................................................................. D. viettei n. sp.
— The median process not sloping ................................................................................................................... 9
9. The lateral process large, with wide base, the median narrow .............................................. D griveaudi n. sp.
— The lateral process longer than wide at its base, the median with a wide base ................ D. anjouanensis n. sp.
10. The lateral process rectangular with straight edge ............................................ D. marojejyensis Paulian, 1961
— The lateral process flat, with irregular edge ............................................................................... D. sogai n. sp.
description: Published as part of Roy, Roger, 2020, Révision du genre Danuriella Westwood, 1889 (Mantodea), pp. 399-432 in Zoosystema 42 (21) on pages 431-432, DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a21, http://zenodo.org/record/3979796