Epacanthaclisis
Creators: name: Ao, Weiguang
name: Wan, Xia
name: Wang, Xinli
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Neuroptera
Myrmeleontidae
Epacanthaclisis

description: Key to species of Epacanthaclisis from China
1. Wings with obvious dense brown spots and short stripes; venation color pale brown; pronotum without black medial stripes ............................................................................................................................................................................ 2
- Wings without obvious markings except for the rhegma and anastomosis of CuA and CuP+1A; venation color alternating between pale and dark; pronotum with black medial strips .............................................................................. 3
2. Forewing maculation more pronounced basally; pronotum dark brown, spots on anterior part weak........................... ............................................................................................................................................. E. maculosa (Yang, 1986).
- Forewing maculation homogeneous along length; pronotum yellow with two large dark spots anteriorly................... .............................................................................................................................................. E. maculata (Yang, 1986).
3. Forewing maculation of rhegma and anastomosis of CuA and CuP+1A not linear..................................................... 4
- Forewing maculation of rhegma and anastomosis of CuA and CuP+1A linear........................................................... 5
4. Spurs extending to apex of the 2nd tarsomere in fore- and midleg, spurs as long as basitarsus in hindleg; pronotum with two pairs of longitudinal black stripes, the lateral stripes straight and almost equal width to the medial stripes, interrupted at the middle ........................................................................................................... E. amydrovittata n. sp.
- Spurs extending to apex of the 3rd tarsomere in fore- and midleg, and spurs as long as two (1st and 2nd) segments of tarsi in hindleg; pronotum with two pairs of longitudinal black stripes, the lateral stripes bent, obviously narrower than the medial stripes ............................................................................................................ E. minana (Yang, 1999).
5. Male with a pair of abdominal hair-pencils ................................................................................................................ 6
- Male without a pair of abdominal hair-pencils ........................................................................................................... 8
6. Stripes on the area of rhegma and the anastomosis place of CuA and CuP+1A equal to or longer than hypostigmal cell; the lateral longitudinal dark brown stripes on pronotum straight and thin ............ E. banksi Krivokhatsky, 1998.
- Stripes on the area of rhegma and the anastomosis place of CuA and CuP+1A shorter than hypostigmal cell; the lateral longitudinal dark brown stripes on pronotum curly .............................................................................................. 7
7. Vertex and occiput dark brown without spot; a pair of medial longitudinal dark brown stripes on pronotum almost completely united, the lateral stripes wider; female posterior gonapophysis as long as 1/3 anterior gonapophysis ..... ......................................................................................................................................................... E. ningshana n. sp.
- Vertex and occiput dark brown with yellow spots; a pair of medial longitudinal dark brown stripes on pronotum united posteriorly and separated anteriorly, the lateral stripes curly line shape; female posterior gonapophysis shorter than 1/4 of anterior gonapophysis .................................................................... E. continentalis Esben-Petersen, 1935.
8. Pronotum yellow with two pair of black stripes, male 5th abdominal segment inflated ................................................ ..................................................................................................................................... E. moiwana (Okomoto, 1906).
- Pronotum brown with a big yellow spot on each posterior angle, male without inflated segment ................................ ............................................................................................................................................. E. batangana Yang, 1992.
description: Published as part of Ao, Weiguang, Wan, Xia & Wang, Xinli, 2010, Review of the genus Epacanthaclisis Okamoto, 1910 in China (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae), pp. 47-57 in Zootaxa 2545 on page 48, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.293879