Eiphosoma Cresson 1865
Creators: name: Fernández-Triana, José L.
name: Ravelo, Horacio Grillo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Ichneumonidae
Eiphosoma

description: Key to the Cuban species of Eiphosoma   
 1 Metapleuron uniformly punctate over entire surface (Fig. 1B), forewing hyaline (dentator speciesgroup)....................................................................................................................................................... 2   
- Metapleuron smooth and impunctate or only punctate dorsally (Fig. 1A), forewing variously coloured3  
 2 (1) Forewing with distal abscissa of M and Cu1 spectral or absent (Fig. 1C), malar space 0.60–0.80X as long as basal mandibular width............................................................................. E. dentator (Fabricius)   
 - Forewing with distal abscissa of M and Cu1 pigmented to margin (Fig. 1D), malar space 0.35–0.40X as long as basal mandibular width ..................................................................................... E. bioeco sp. nov.   
 3 (1') Forewing without any trace of areolet (Fig. 1F) (nigrovittatum species-group)...................................... 4   
- Forewing with areolet enclosed (Fig. 1E)............................................................................................... 6  
 4 (3) Head and mesosoma orange-brownish, without black markings ..................................... E. lutteum Brues   
- Head and mesosoma yellowish, with several black and/or brown markings.......................................... 5  
 5 (4') Mesopleuron with diagonal black stripe; metatibia yellow-brown centrally, black basally and apically. ............................................................................................................................ E. nigrovitattum Cresson   
 - Mesopleuron completely yellow; metatibia yellow centrally, brown basally and apically....................... ................................................................................................................................... E. dearmasi sp. nov.   
 6 (3') Submetapleural carina weakly raised (as in Fig. 1B), propodeum yellow with median and lateral longitudinal black stripes, forewing with infumate distal apex (macrum species-group).................................. .............................................................................................................................. E. atrovittatum Cresson   
 - Submetapleural carina strongly raised and sharp (as in Fig. 1A), propodeum yellow with median black stripe only, forewing uniformly hyaline (viticolle species-group)........................................................... 7   
 7 (6') Metacoxa yellow and/or reddish without black/brown marks dorsally ........................ E. nelitae sp. nov.   
- Metacoxa red with black/brown mark dorsally...................................................................................... 8  
 8 (7') Mesopleuron more or less entirely yellow, at most with obscure black spot near posterior margin......... .................................................................................................................................... E. vitticolle Cresson   
 - Mesopleuron with conspicuous black markings, with more or less complete diagonal black line from below subalar prominence to mesepisternal scrobe .......................................... E. laphygmae Costa Lima
description: Published as part of Fernández-Triana, José L. & Ravelo, Horacio Grillo, 2007, A taxonomic review of Cuban Eiphosoma Cresson (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae), with biogeographical notes, pp. 49-61 in Zootaxa 1655 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1655.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5104080