Pityocera
Creators: name: Krolow, Tiago Kütter
name: Henriques, Augusto Loureiro
name: Gorayeb, Inocêncio De Sousa
name: Limeira-De-Oliveira, Francisco
name: Buestán, Jaime
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Tabanidae
Pityocera

description: Key to subgenera and species of Pityocera
1. Flagellomeres with digitiform projections (pectinate or bipectinate)............................................ 2
- First flagellomere with at most a small apical projection, or enlarged, other flagellomeres without projections............ \.................................................................................. P. (Pseudelaphella)...3
2 Flagellum pectinate........................................................ P. (Elaphella) cervus (Wiedemann)
- Flagellum bipectinate......................................................... P. (Pityocera) festai Giglio-Tos
3 Wing patterned, proximal third dark brown........................................... P. (Ps.) nigribasis Fairchild
- Wing infuscated, without patterns or spots................................................................. 4
4 Face and clypeus shiny................................................................................ 5
- Face pruinose and clypeus shiny or partially pruinose....................................................... 6
5 Face and clypeus light brown, completely smooth and shiny, almost translucent; antenna with eight visible flagellomeres................................................................................... P. (Ps.) rhinolissa sp. nov.
- Face and clypeus dark brown almost black, smooth and shiny, not translucent; antenna with seven or eight visible flagellom- eres........................................................................ P. (Ps.) ecuadorensis sp. nov.
6 Beard yellowish brown.............................................................. P. (Ps.) barrosi sp. nov.
- Beard white......................................................................................... 7
7 Clypeus and inferior half of the face smooth and shiny; antenna with the first flagellomere modified, elongated, with a small dorso-apical projection........................................................... P. (Ps.) nana (Walker) (♂)
- Clypeus smooth and shiny or partially pruinose, face pruinose; antenna with first flagellomere widened, without dorso-apical projection........................................................................................... 8
8 Thorax, abdomen and legs dark brown; occiput hairs predominantly white.................. P. (Ps.) pernaquila sp. nov.
- Thorax and abdomen light brown; legs yellow; occiput hairs predominantly orange or brown........................ 9
9 First flagellomere higher than long; all flagellomeres orange; clypeus smooth and shiny......... P. (Ps.) gorayebi sp. nov.
- First flagellomere longer than high or subequal; distal flagellomeres darkened; clypeus partially pruinose............................................................................................. P. (Ps.) patellicornis (Kröber)
description: Published as part of Krolow, Tiago Kütter, Henriques, Augusto Loureiro, Gorayeb, Inocêncio De Sousa, Limeira-De-Oliveira, Francisco & Buestán, Jaime, 2015, Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Pityocera Giglio-Tos, 1896 (Diptera: Tabanidae: Scionini), pp. 301-333 in Zootaxa 3904 (3) on page 304, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3904.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/253414