Homoporus FROM
Creators: name: Xiao, Hui
name: Zhang, Yan-Zhou
name: Huang, Da-Wei
name: Polaszek, Andrew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2004
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Pteromalidae
Homoporus

description: KEY TO THE SPECIES OF HOMOPORUS FROMCHINA   
1. Body stout; ovipositor beyond the apex of the metasoma (ovipositor stylets exserted occasionally). Female............... 2  
– Body relatively slim, aedeagus beyond the apex of the metasoma. Male...................................................................................... 10  
 2. Antennae with 3 anelli (Fig. 8); each funicular segment transverse; mandibles 4-toothed; thorax relatively long, about 1.3-1.4 x breadth..................................... H. pulchripes Erdös   
– Antennae with 2 anelli; each funicular segment elongate or quadrate; mandibles either 4-toothed or left 3-toothed and right 4-toothed; thorax short, at most 1.2 x breadth..................... 3  
3. Both anelli transverse (Figs. 1, 3, 11, 7)............................... 5  
– First anellus longer than wide, second broadly transverse (Figs. 5, 10)...................................................................................... 4  
 4. Clypeal margin sharply 2-toothed (Fig. 4), distinctly excised in middle; funicular segments 3-6 quadrate (Fig.5); POL 1.6 x OOL; marginal vein 1.6 x stigmal vein; fore wing with brown infuscation........................................... H. japonicus Ashmead   
 – Clypeal margin broadly truncate (Fig. 9), without sharp tooth; each funicular segment longer than broad (Fig.10); POL 1-1.11 x OOL; marginal vein 2.3 x stigmal vein; fore wing without infuscation........................................ H. sinensis, new species   
 5. Gaster yellow, sometimes a brown area appearing on both sides of base of gaster.................................. H. fulviventris (Walker)   
– Gaster brown or dark green................................................... 6  
 6. Marginal vein shorter than postmarginal vein (0.92 x), about 1.5 x as long as stigmal vein; mandibles 3-toothed.................................................................. H. apharetus (Walker)   
– Marginal vein at least as long as postmarginal vein; mandibles 4-toothed or left 3-toothed and right 4-toothed.................... 7  
7. Pronotal collar not margined................................................. 8  
– Pronotal collar margined medially.......................................... 9  
 8. Left mandible 3-toothed, right 4-toothed; malar space half or slightly more than half as long as eye height (Fig. 6); gaster 2 x as long as broad......................................... H. luniger (Nees)   
 – Both mandibles 4-toothed; malar space 1/3 or slightly more than 1/3 as long as eye height; gaster 1.4 x as long as broad...................................................................... H. destructor (Say)   
 9. Clava bearing a narrow spicula; left mandible 3-toothed and right 4-toothed; marginal vein 1.7-1.9x as long as broad; thorax dark green; gaster 1.6-2.0 x as long as broad...................................................................... H. arestor (Walker)   
 – Clave distinctly acuminate apically, without a narrow spicula; both mandibles 4 toothed; marginal vein 2 or more than 2x as long as broad; thorax green; gaster 2 x as long as broad................................................................... H. subniger (Walker)   
 10. Clypeal margin sharply 2-toothed........ H. japonicus Ashmead   
– Clypeal margin truncate, without sharp tooth..................... 11  
 11. Antenna with 3 anelli................................ H. puchripes Erdös   
– Antenna with 2 anelli.......................................................... 12  
 12. Antenna yellow, first anellus slightly longer than broad and the second slightly transverse (as in female), each funicular segment slightly longer than broad; propodeum with plica complete; gaster about 2 x as long as broad.............................................................. H. sinensis, new species   
– Antennae brown, both anelli transverse; propodeum without plica; others different........................................................... 13  
13. Pronotum as broad as mesoscutum..................................... 14  
– Pronotum distinctly narrower than mesoscutum................... 15  
 14. Sixth funicular segment 1.5 x as long as broad; marginal vein 1.2 x stigmal vein, marginal vein slightly thickened................................................................. H. apharetus (Walker)   
 – Sixth funicular segment at most 1.1 x as long as broad; marginal vein 1.6-1.7 x stigmal vein, marginal vein not thickened........................................................................ H. luniger (Nees)   
 15. Pronotal collar not margined....................... H. destructor (Say)   
– Pronotal collar distinctly margined..................................... 16  
 16. The sixth funicular segment at least 1.8x as long as broad (Fig.2); gaster 4 x as long as broad...................... H. arestor (Walker)   
– The sixth funicular segment at most 1.5 x as long as broad; gaster 1.8-3.0 as long as broad....................................................... 17  
 17. Antennae with scape yellow; sixth funicular segment as long as broad; scape slightly expanded above the middle; gaster brown dorsally, yellow ventrally................... H. fulviventris (Walker)   
 – Antennae with scape brown; sixth funicular segment 1.2-1.5x as long as broad; scape not expanded above middle; gaster dark brown or metallic dark green................ H. subniger (Walker)
description: Published as part of Xiao, Hui, Zhang, Yan-Zhou, Huang, Da-Wei & Polaszek, Andrew, 2004, A Revision Of Homoporus (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) Of China, pp. 59-65 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 52 (1) on page 60, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4618919