Neochauliodes sinensis Walker 1853
Creators: name: Liu, Xingyue
name: Hayashi, Fumio
name: Yang, Ding
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Megaloptera
Corydalidae
Neochauliodes
Neochauliodes sinensis

description: Key to males of the Neochauliodes sinensis species–group   
1. Wing with distal portion dark, usually brown or blackish brown (Fig. 3)................................................... 2  
– Wing with distal portion hyaline or dispersedly dotted (Fig.1)................................................................... 8  
2. Hindwing with basal half blackish brown (Liu & Yang 2005a: Fig. 1)...................................................... 3  
– Hindwing with basal half hyaline (Fig. 1)................................................................................................... 4  
 3. Pronotum black (Liu & Yang 2005a: Fig. 1); male tenth sternum in lateral view with acute tip (Liu & Yang 2005a: Fig. 11) ............................................................................ Neochauliodes acutatus Liu & Yang   
 – Pronotum pale yellow (Liu & Yang 2005a: Fig. 4); male tenth sternum in lateral view with blunt tip (Liu & Yang 2005a: Fig. 22) ........................................................................... Neochauliodes fuscus Liu & Yang   
 4. Head orange (Liu & Yang 2005a: Fig. 6) ............................................................ Neochauliodes latus Yang   
– Head blackish brown (Fig. 4)...................................................................................................................... 5  
5. Distal hyaline area of forewing large, subquadrate (Figs. 4, 6)................................................................... 6  
– Distal hyaline area small, separated into several tiny hyaline spots (Fig. 3; Liu & Yang 2005a: Fig. 10).. 7  
 6. Male tenth sternum wide and thick, in lateral view with blunt tip (Fig. 28)................................................. ................................................................................................................... Neochauliodes robustus sp. nov.   
 – Male tenth sternum narrow and slender, in lateral view with acute tip (Fig. 21).......................................... ..................................................................................................................... Neochauliodes koreanus Weele   
 7. Male tenth tergum asymmetric with each other (Figs. 18–19); male tenth sternum in ventral view with truncate tip (Fig. 20) .................................................................... Neochauliodes jiangxiensis Yang & Yang   
 – Male tenth tergum symmetric with each other (Liu & Yang 2005: Fig. 44); male tenth sternum in lateral view with rounded tip (Liu & Yang 2005: Fig. 45) .................... Neochauliodes wuminganus Yang & Yang   
8. Male tenth sternum in lateral view with apex inflated (Figs. 10, 14, 32).................................................... 9  
– Male tenth sternum in lateral view with apex not inflated (Figs. 18, 21, 24, 36)...................................... 16  
 9. Male tenth sternum in ventral view with arched proximal margin (Fig. 11)................................................. ..................................................................................................... Neochauliodes amamioshimanus sp. nov.   
– Male tenth sternum in ventral view with V–shaped proximal margin (Figs. 25, 33)................................ 10  
10. Male tenth sternum wide, 2.5 times as long as wide (Fig. 37).................................................................. 12  
– Male tenth sternum narrow, 4.0 times as long as wide (Liu & Yang 2006a: Figs. 22, 26)........................ 11  
 11. Wing with dense marks (Liu & Yang 2006a: Fig. 6); male tenth sternum in ventral view with distal lateral margin not expanded (Liu & Yang 2006a: Fig. 26) .................... Neochauliodes punctatolosus Liu & Yang   
 – Wing with sparse marks (Liu & Yang 2006a: Fig. 5); male tenth sternum in ventral view with distal lateral margin expanded outwards (Liu & Yang 2006a: Fig. 22) ...................... Neochauliodes parcus Liu & Yang   
12. Forewing with transverse band narrow or separated into scattered small marks (Fig. 2)......................... 13  
 – Forewing with transverse band wide and entire (Fig. 7).......................... Neochauliodes rotundatus Tjeder   
 13. Hindwing with median transverse band narrow and separated into sparse small marks (Liu & Yang 2005b: Fig. 5).................................................................................................... Neochauliodes sparsus Liu & Yang   
– Hindwing with median transverse band wide and entire (Fig. 2).............................................................. 14  
 14. Head yellow; male tenth sternum with distal margin incised in ventral view (Fig. 15)................................ ......................................................................................................... Neochauliodes formosanus (Okamoto)   
– Head dark; male tenth sternum with distal margin truncate in ventral view (Kimmins 1954: Fig. 19b; Liu & Yang 2005a: Fig. 37)............................................................................................................................. 15  
 15. Wing with dense marks at tip (Liu & Yang 2005a: Fig. 8); male tenth sternum in ventral view about 3.0 times as long as distal margin (Liu & Yang 2005a: Fig. 37) ................... Neochauliodes nigris Liu & Yang   
 – Wing with sparse marks at tip (Fig. 9); male tenth sternum in ventral view about 2.0 times as long as distal margin (Kimmins 1954: Fig. 19b) .......................................................... Neochauliodes truncatus Kimmins   
16. Pronotum orange without any marks (Liu & Yang 2005a: Fig. 7)............................................................ 17  
– Pronotum yellowish brown laterally with pair of blackish vittae (Liu & Yang 2005b: Fig. 1)................. 18  
 17. Forewing with median transverse band extended to Cu (Liu & Yang 2005a: Fig. 7); male tenth sternum wide with tip slightly incised (Liu & Yang 2005a: Fig. 33) .................. Neochauliodes meridionalis Weele   
 – Forewing with median transverse band extended to posterior margin (Liu & Yang 2005a: Fig. 5); male tenth sternum slender with tip not incised (Liu & Yang 2005a: Fig. 26)...................................................... ................................................................................................... Neochauliodes guangxiensis Yang & Yang   
18. Hindwing with median transverse band long, extending to Cu (Figs. 5, 8).............................................. 19  
– Hindwing with median transverse band short, extending to M (Liu & Yang 2005b: Fig. 3; Liu & Yang 2006a: Fig. 1)............................................................................................................................................. 21  
 19. Forewing with median transverse band separated into several small spots (Liu & Yang 2005b: Fig. 1); male tenth sternum in ventral view with apex strongly narrowed into a digitiform process (Liu & Yang 2005b: Fig. 8) .................................................................................. Neochauliodes digitiformis Liu & Yang   
– Forewing with median transverse band entire (Figs. 5, 8); male tenth sternum in ventral view with apex not narrowed into digitiform process (Figs. 25, 37).................................................................................. 17  
 20. Male tenth sternum in lateral view with median portion distinctly inflated (Fig. 36)................................... ................................................................................................................... Neochauliodes sinensis (Walker)   
 – Male tenth sternum in lateral view with median portion slightly inflated (Fig. 24)...................................... ................................................................................................................ Neochauliodes occidentalis Weele   
 21. Hindwing with median transverse band longitudinally separated into several small subquadrate spots (Liu & Yang 2006a: Fig. 1); male tenth sternum in ventral view wide lingulate with pair of small distal dents (Liu & Yang 2006a: Fig. 8) .......................................................... Neochauliodes bicuspidatus Liu & Yang   
 – Hindwing with median transverse band entire (Liu & Yang 2005b: Fig. 3); male tenth sternum in ventral view subtrapezoidal without distal dents (Liu & Yang 2005b: Fig. 12)........................................................ ....................................................................................................... Neochauliodes parasparsus Liu & Yang
description: Published as part of Liu, Xingyue, Hayashi, Fumio & Yang, Ding, 2007, Revision of the Neochauliodes sinensis species-group (Megaloptera: Corydalidae: Chauliodinae), pp. 29-54 in Zootaxa 1511 (1) on pages 30-32, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1511.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5087291