Pherolepis Kulik

Zhang, Xu & Liu, Guo-Qing, 2009, Revision of the pilophorine plant bug genus Pherolepis Kulik, 1968 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae), Zootaxa 2281, pp. 1-20 : 4

Key to world species of Pherolepis Kulik

1 Body and corium dorsally covered with distinctly dense, erect or suberect, long simple setae .. P. longipilus sp. nov.

- Not as above.................................................................................................................................................................. 2

2 Hemelytron with silvery, decumbent, flattened scalelike setae .................................................................................... 3

- Hemelytron without scalelike setae as above ............................................................................................................... 4

3 Scalelike setae on hemelytron arranged into a broad and incompact band on mesial 1/3 of the corium; hemelytron without simple setae; basal half of antennal segment II yellow with remainder deep brown ... P. fasciatus (Kerzhner)

- Scalelike setae irregularly scattered on basal 2/3 of hemelytron, not forming a broad band; hemelytron with decum- bent simple setae; antennal segment II castaneous with distal apex weakly darkened ................. P. aenescens (Reuter)

4 Body black; sericeous setae arranged into small patches on hemelytron ........................................ P. nigrinus sp. nov.

- Body yellow-brown, brown or castaneous; shining sericeous setae widely scattered on hemelytron ......................... 5

5 Vertex, pronotum and hemelytron covered with short, dense, decumbent simple setae; sericeous setae on hemelytron sparse; femora and proximal half of tibiae red-brown ........................................................... P. kiritshenkoi (Kerzhner)

- vertex, pronotum and hemelytron covered with sparse simple setae; sericeous setae dense and widely scattered on hemelytron .................................................................................................................................................................... 6

6 Body deep brown; pronotum smooth and distinctly shining, only with extremely sparse simple setae ........................ ......................................................................................................................................................... P. robustus sp. nov.

- Body yellow-brown; pronotum with relatively dense, decumbent simple setae .................................. P. amplus Kulik