Sphedanolestes Stal 1866
Creators: name: Cai, Wanzhi
name: Cai, Xinyan
name: Wang, Yunzhen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Reduviidae
Sphedanolestes

description: Sphedanolestes Stål, 1866
Key to the species of the genus Sphedanolestes Stål from China
1. Pronotum black or blackish brown or only posterior lobe with yellowish marking ............................................................ 2
– Pronotum paler or just with sculpture of anterior or/and marking on posterior lobe black .................................................... 9
2. Connexivum unicolorous, at least margin of connexivum unicolorous ........................................................................ 3
– Connexivum bicoloured ......................................................... 4
3. Body length over 15 mm, robust ............ S. pubinotus Reuter
– Body length less than 14 mm, elongate ........ S. gularis Hsiao
4. Femora with annuli, body robust ........ S. impressicollis (Stål)
– Femora without annuli, body elongate .................................. 5
5. Pronotum distinctly with granulates or mini processes ........ 6
– Pronotum without granulates or mini processes ................... 7
6. Body length lees than 13 mm, pronotum distinctly with granulates, femora not distinctly nodulous .................................................. S. granulipes Hsiao & Ren
– Body length over 13 mm, pronotum distinctly with processes, femora distinctly nodulous ........................... S. nodipes Li
7. Head beneath black, abdominal beneath with transverse black markings ............................................ S. subtilis (Jakovlev)
– Head beneath yellow, abdominal sterna with few transverse spots or markings ....................................................................... 8
8. Third to sixth abdominal sterna each with a few transverse spots, body black ............................................... S. pilosus Hsiao
– Lateral sides of abdominal beneath with longitudinal markings, pronotum tinged with metallic blue .......................................................... S. sinicus Cai & Yang
9. Femora unicolorous, reddish .. S. rubripes, new species (Fig. 1)
– At least one pairs of legs with femora bicoloured ............. 10
10. Femora pale with darker markings ..................................... 11
– Femora blackish brown, at least one pairs of legs with paler markings on femora ....................................................... 12
11. Body yellow, femur with 2 to 3 annuli, most portion of tibiae yellow, posterior pronotal lobe with 4 black spots .............................. S. quadrinotatus, new species (Fig. 11)
– Body reddish yellow, femur with 1 annulus, most portion of tibiae blackish, posterior pronotal lobe without black spots ......................................... S. xiongi, new species (Fig. 21)
12. Corium red or reddish brown ............................................. 13
– Corium blackish brown ....................................................... 14
13. Base of femur red, first antennal segment about twice as long as second antennal segment, first rostral segment subequal to the second rostral segment .................. S. trichrous Stål
– Middle part of femur with a yellowish annulus, first antennal segment nearly 3 times as long as second antennal segment, first rostral segment distinctly shorter than the second rostral segment .................................................... S. anellus Hsiao
14. Third antennal segment about twice as long as the second, mid and hind legs without annuli ..... S. bicoloroides Putshkov
– Third antennal segment slightly longer than the second, mid and hind legs with annuli ........................ S. annulipes Distant
description: Published as part of Cai, Wanzhi, Cai, Xinyan & Wang, Yunzhen, 2004, Notes On The Genus Sphedanolestes Stål (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) From China, With The Description Of Three New Species, pp. 379-388 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (2) on pages 379-380, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4619534