Epidaus Stål

Zhang, Wenjie, Zhao, Ping, Cao, Liangming & Cai, Wanzhi, 2010, Description of a new species of genus Epidaus Stål (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) from China, with a key to Chinese species, Zootaxa 2517, pp. 62-68 : 63

Key to the Chinese species of the genus Epidaus Stål

1. Pronotum with postero-lateral angles with short tubercles or short spines, median area of posterior lobe with two tubercles ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2

-. Pronotum with postero-lateral angles with long spines, median area of posterior pronotal lobe with two tubercles or spines............................................................................................................................................................................. 3

2. Posterior margin of each connexival segment light, female connexivum evenly extended .................. E. nebulo (Stål)

-. Fifth connexival segment totally puce in dorsal view, other segments light, female connexivum unevenly extended in rhomboid shape............................................................................................................................. E. tuberosus Yang

3. Scutellum except apical part black ................................................................................................ E. atrispinus Distant

-. Scutellum light.............................................................................................................................................................. 4

4. Postocular part of head puce ......................................................................................................................................... 5

-. Postocular part of head yellow or reddish yellow......................................................................................................... 6

5. Body henna, clothed with dense white wax spots, female abdomen conspicuously extended bilaterally ..................... ............................................................................................................................................................ E. famulus (Stål)

-. Body filemot, without wax spots, female abdomen slightly extended ............................................. E. sexspinus Hsiao

6. Head, pronotum, scutellum reddish yellow ....................................................................................... E. bicolor Distant

-. Head, pronotum (except transverse strip), scutellum canary or beige..........................................................................7

7. Posterior pronotal lobe without black transverse band near posterior margin, with only four long black spines.......... ....................................................................................................................................................... E. insularis sp. nov.

-. Posterior pronotal lobe with only black transverse band near posterior margin ........................... E. longispinus Hsiao