Cnemomis

Key to the known species of Cnemomis 1. Scutellum entirely black (Brazil) (Fig. 12).............................................. C. nigroscutellata sp. nov. - Scutellum yellow, orange or red colors, and never black....................................................... 2 2. Scutellar disk dull orange with two basal spots creamy yellow lateral to midline or basal margin entirely creamy yellow, never green (Brazil, Ecuador, French Guyana, Surinam) (Fig. 17)......................... C. ticinensis Brailovsky & Barrera - Scutellar disk basally without creamy yellow area............................................................ 3 3. Head green; pronotum shiny green with a continuous, yellow, median longitudinal stripe, extending from anterior to posterior border (Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Surinam) (Fig. 9)............................................... C. gracilis (Dallas) - Head yellowish to orange; pronotum reddish brown or yellow or orange, with or without yellow or black median longitudinal stripe, contrasting with the surface........................................................................ 4 4. Pronotum with a yellow, orange or black, median longitudinal stripe contrasting with the surface...................... 5 - Pronotum without yellow, orange, or black, median longitudinal stripe........................................... 6 5. Pronotal with central black digitiform spot surrounded anteriorly and laterally with yellow, then darker laterally; head yellow; clavus brown with claval vein and posterior margin yellow (Bolivia, Brazil, Peru) (Fig. 13)............... C. cognata St��l - Pronotal disk pale orange with a yellow, median longitudinal stripe; head pale castaneous orange with a pale yellowish longitu- dinal stripe across the middle; clavus shiny red with claval vein and posterior margin yellow (Peru) (Fig. 15).................................................................................................. C. primigena sp. nov. 6. Yellowish transverse fascia on corium always present; posterior half of corium dark reddish with apical angle and apical mar- gin yellow; pronotum pale brown with all marginal areas yellow (Brazil, Ecuador) (Fig. 8)....................................................................................................... C. fasciata Brailovsky & Barrera - Yellowish transverse fascia on corium absent; posterior half of corium and pronotum with another color combinations..... 7 7. Humeral angles tapering into medium-sized spine, pointing laterally and barely posteriad; pronotal disk yellow with humeral angles and wide rectangular area at posterior lobe dark reddish brown (French Guyana) (Fig. 11)......... C. lepida sp. nov. - Humeral angles obtuse or barely exposed; pronotal disk without dark reddish brown rectangular area................... 8 8. Antennal segments II and III entirely dark castaneous, or dark reddish brown to black............................... 9 - Antennal segments II and III yellowish or not entirely dark castaneous or dark reddish brown to black................. 11 9. Basal angle of hemelytral membrane yellow, translucent (Brazil, French Guiana) (Fig. 10).......... C. kondratieffi sp. nov. - Basal angle of hemelytral membrane black................................................................ 10 10. Antennal segments II���III dark reddish brown; humeral angles rounded; total body length longer than 16.00 mm; length of antennal segment I longer than 4.00 mm, and IV longer than 4.50 mm; female genital plates black (Venezuela).................................................................................................. C. refulgens sp.nov. - Antennal segments II���III pale castaneous orange; humeral angles subacute; total body length less than 13.00 mm; length of antennal segment I less than 3.00 mm, and IV less than 4.40 mm; male genital capsule yellowish orange (Brazil) (Fig. 7).............................................................................. C. excavata Brailovsky & Barrera 11. Antennal segments II and III reddish brown with apical joint yellow; connexival segment VII dark brown (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru) (Fig. 13)....................................................... C. nodulosa Brailovsky & Barrera - Antennal segments II and III yellow with apical joint pale brown or entirely dark to pale castaneous orange; connexival seg- ment VII yellowish orange.............................................................................. 12 12. Antennal segment IV yellowish with basal joint and distal half brown (Brazil) (Fig. 14).................. C. pallens (St��l) - Antennal segment IV entirely dark to pale castaneous orange (Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela) (Fig. 6).... C. dubia (Dallas)
Published as part of Brailovsky, Harry, 2015, Description of five new species of Cnemomis, with a key to the known species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Coreidae: Discogastrini), pp. 413-422 in Zootaxa 3931 (3) on pages 421-422, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/241209