Carvalhygia Brailovsky 1995
Creators: name: Brailovsky, Harry
name: Barrera, Ernesto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Coreidae
Carvalhygia

description: Key to the known species of Carvalhygia
1. Femora yellow, scattered with brown discoidal spots, and apical third brown; labial segment II yellow (Figs. 7, 14).............................................................................................. C. stellata sp. nov.
- Femora black, or dark brown or pale reddish brown or dull orange with basal area yellow and without brown to black discoidal spots; labial segment II shiny castaneous orange to black...................................................... 2
2. Hemelytral membrane bicolorous........................................................................ 3
- Hemelytral membrane unicolorous....................................................................... 4
3. Hemelytral membrane dark brown with inner portion creamy yellow; anterolateral margins of pronotal disk dark orange (Figs. 2, 9, 16)...................................................................... C. carvalhoi Brailovsky, 1995
- Hemelytral membrane creamy yellow with inner angle black; anterolateral margins of pronotal disk black (Figs. 3, 10)....................................................................................... C. complanus sp. nov.
4. Hemelytral membrane extremely reduced, reaching posterior third of abdominal tergite III........................... 5
- Hemelytral membrane reaching anterior margin or posterior third of abdominal tergite IV............................ 6
5. Anterior angles of pronotum obtuse, rounded, not exposed; pleural margins of abdominal sternites III–VII reddish brown with posterior margin dark yellow; female metafemur ventrally armed (Figs. 1, 8, 15, 18).................................................................................................. C. camarinesa Brailovsky & Barrera, 2002
- Anterior angles of pronotum produced anteriad as short conical teeth; pleural margins of abdominal sternites III–VII yellow, tinged with chestnut orange (Figs. 6, 13)............................................... C. nigra Brailovsky, 1995
6. Hemelytral membrane white, wider, reaching posterior margin of abdominal tergite IV; female total body length longer than 11.90 mm (male unknown); connexiva of abdominal segments III–VII reddish brown with posterior margin yellow; connexiva of abdominal segments VIII–IX and laterotergites VIII–IX yellow (Figs. 5, 12)............... C. milzae Brailovsky, 1995
- Hemelytral membrane white, narrow, reaching anterior margin of abdominal tergite IV; female total body length shorter than 11.00 mm; connexiva of abdominal segments III–VII black to dark brown, with posterior margin dark orange; connexiva of abdominal segments VIII–IX and laterotergites VIII–IX black (Figs. 4, 11)........................ C. herczekia sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Brailovsky, Harry & Barrera, Ernesto, 2023, Description of three new species of Carvalhygia Brailovsky, 1995 from The Republic of the Philippines and a key to species (Heteroptera: Coreidae: Colpurini), pp. 18-26 in Zootaxa 5382 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5382.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/10280227