Saphonecrus, Dalla-Torre & Kieffer

Kang, Minjoon, Jung, Sunghoon, Pujade-Villar, Juli & Lobato-Vila, Irene, 2022, A new species of the inquilinous gall wasp genus Saphonecrus Dalla-Torre & Kieffer (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Synergini) from South Korea, Saphonecrus jejuensis Kang & Lobato-Vila, sp. nov., Zootaxa 5195 (3), pp. 285-292 : 289

Key to species of the genus Saphonecrus found in South Korea

(Modified from Lobato-Vila et al. 2021b)

1 Lateral pronotal carina absent, sides of pronotum rounded in dorsal view......................................... 2

- Lateral pronotal carina present, sides of pronotum angled in dorsal view.......................................... 3

2 Body mainly brown; female antenna 14-segmented; mesoscutum with weak interrupted transverse carinae; radial cell 3.0 times as long as wide.......................................................................... S. chaodongzhui

- Body mainly black; female antenna 13-segmented; mesoscutum reticulate to delicately coriaceous; radial cell at most 2.5 times as long as wide............................................................................ S. symbioticus

3 Tarsal claws bidentate, with a basal lobe; POL 3.0 times as long as OOL; transfacial distance longer than height of eye; metasoma slightly incised posterodorsally....................................................... S. shirakashii

- Tarsal claws simple, without a basal lobe; POL 1.7 times as long as OOL; transfacial distance as long as height of eye; metasoma strongly incised posterodorsally................................................. S. jejuensis , sp. nov.