Goniaspis
Creators: name: Mlynarek, Julia J.
name: Wheeler, Terry A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chloropidae
Goniaspis

description: Key to described species of Goniaspis
1. Fore coxa and all femora black; tibiae and tarsi yellow; abdomen black laterally, yellow medially ......... G. truncata
- Legs yellow, or hind tibia with a central dark band; abdomen entirely black or yellow.............................................. 2
2. Scutum black................................................................................................................................................................. 3
- Scutum yellow .............................................................................................................................................................. 6
3. Scutellum and thoracic pleurites yellow................................................................................................... G. s c u t e l l a r i s
- Scutellum and thoracic pleurites black ......................................................................................................................... 4
4. Frons, face and postpronotum yellow ................................................................................................................. G. lucia
- Frons, face and postpronotum black ............................................................................................................................. 5
5. Sides of epandrium parallel in posterior view; excavated area between cerci semicircular (Fig. 15)............. G. opaca
- Sides of epandrium diverging ventrally in posterior view; excavated area between cerci wider than high (Fig. 13).... .................................................................................................................................................................... G. obscurata
6. Frons and gena at least partly black, frontal triangle and occiput black, contrasting with yellow scutum .................. 7
- Frons, gena and most of frontal triangle yellow, occiput usually at least partly yellow (black in G. r u b r a)............... 8
7. Frons and gena entirely black. Abdomen yellow ........................................................................................... G. equalis
- Frons and gena partly yellow. Abdomen black .......................................................................................... G. versicolor
8. Occiput entirely yellow, ocellar tubercle yellow ............................................................................................. G. lurida
- Occiput entirely or partly black, ocellar tubercle black or with a dark spot ................................................................ 9
9. Occiput yellow with 2 black lines extending posteroventrally from frontal triangle. Hind tibial spur apical .............. ................................................................................................................................................................. G. subaequalis
- Occiput entirely black. Hind tibial spur slightly subapical .............................................................................. G. rubra
description: Published as part of Mlynarek, Julia J. & Wheeler, Terry A., 2009, Revision of the Neotropical genus Goniaspis Duda (Diptera: Chloropidae), pp. 26-40 in Zootaxa 2033 on page 28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.186327