Baeochila, Drake & Poor, 1937

Souma, Jun, 2020, Discoveries of the genera Baeochila and Idiocysta from Japan, with descriptions of two new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Tingidae), Zootaxa 4731 (3), pp. 388-402 : 393

Key to the species of Baeochila

The key below is based on a comparison of the type material of the new species with the photographs of the holotypes (National Museum of Natural Science Taiwan 2019; United States National Museum of Natural History 2019), the illustrations ( United States National Museum of Natural History 2019), the original descriptions ( Distant 1903a; Drake 1948; Drake & Maa 1954) and the key ( Cho et al. 2018) of other congeners.

1 Hood roof-shaped, lower than pronotal disk at highest part; costal area of hemelytron indistinct................................................................................................... B. dehrana Drake & Maa, 1954

- Hood semi-globose or semi-ellipsoid, higher than pronotal disk at highest part; costal area of hemelytron distinct......... 2

2 Lateral carinae of pronotum close to each other in anterior part; costal area of hemelytron with 3 rows of areolae at widest part............................................................................... B. nexa (Distant, 1903)

- Lateral carinae of pronotum nearly parallel to each other in anterior part; costal area of hemelytron with a single row of areolae throughout its length................................................................................... 3

3 Hood semi-ellipsoid; lateral carinae of pronotum concealed by paranota in anterior part........ B. elongata (Distant, 1903)

- Hood semi-globose; lateral carinae of pronotum not concealed by paranota throughout their length..................... 4

4 Rostrum reaching posterior margin of metasternum; subcostal area of hemelytron with 2 rows of areolae throughout its length.................................................................................... B. horvathi sp. nov.

- Rostrum reaching middle part of metasternum; subcostal area of hemelytron with a single row of areolae throughout its length............................................................................. B. scitula Drake, 1948