Leocratides Ehlers, 1908

Salazar-Vallejo, Sergio I., 2020, Revision of Leocrates Kinberg, 1866 and Leocratides Ehlers, 1908 (Annelida, Errantia, Hesionidae), Zootaxa 4739 (1), pp. 1-114 : 74

Key to species of Leocratides Ehlers, 1908

1 Peristomial dorsolateral tubercles with 2–5 thick, digitate lobes................................................. 2

- Peristomial dorsolateral tubercles with margin smooth or with 1–2 thick, low, round lobes; venter with some pigmentation.. 3

2(1) Venter with a wide longitudinal band, darker in middle segments, paler in posterior ones, none along a few anterior segments; neuracicular lobes long, wide, globose, blunt................................ L. jimii n. sp. Madagascar, Indian Ocean

- Venter without pigmentation; neuracicular lobes longer than wide, tapered into small mucro................................................................................................ L. filamentosus Ehlers, 1908 Malaysia

3(1) Neuracicular lobe as long as wide, mucronate; midventral pigmentation with paired larger spots per segment and irregular smaller spots............................................... L. kimuraorum Jimi, Tanaka & Kajihara, 2017 , Japan

- Neuracicular lobes twice longer than wide, triangular, not mucronate; midventral pigmentation continuous brownish longitudinal band (if faded off, darker than adjacent integument), rarely with round spots in some anterior to middle segments.......................................................................... L. ehlersi ( Horst, 1921) reinst., Indonesia