Tagalis

Castro-Huertas, Valentina & Forero, Dimitri, 2014, First record of the genus Tag ali s Stål, 1860 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Saicinae) from Colombia with the description of two new species, Zootaxa 3838 (4), pp. 475-485 : 476

Key for Tagalis species, modified from Gil-Santana (2011)

1. Profemora incrassate, protibiae with four spines..................................................... T. femorata

1´. Profemora slender, protibiae with three spines............................................................... 2

2. Head and thorax dark brown............................................................................. 3

2´. Head and thorax mostly pale brown, sometimes with dark areas................................................. 5

3. Profemur pale brown, with subapical dark band; coxal cavities white............................... T. dichroa sp. nov.

3’. Profemur dark brown; coxal cavities dark brown............................................................. 4

4. Integument of hind lobe of pronotum smooth; sternites mostly orange; median process of pygophore in males long, acute; parameres with apical third beside the pygophore................................................... T. seminigra

4´. I ntegument of hind lobe of pronotum rugose; sternites brownish; median process of pygophore in males short, spiniform; body of parameres within pygophore rim............................................................. T. evavilmae

5. Forewing almost entirely grayish, without alternating markings................................................. 6

5´. Forewing with alternating darkened and brighter areas or darkened spots.......................................... 7

6. Upper region of post-ocular portion of head and humeral angles of hind lobe of pronotum usually darkened; pterostigma fuscous or discretely whitish at apex; male: length of longer ciliated hairs of first antennal segment approximately 2.5 times width of segment; median process of pygophore conspicuous, with large subtriangular base; parameres with little apical curvature, with apical middle beside pygophore and without an appendix at apical teeth.......................... T. inornata

6`. Head and pronotum testaceous, without darkened markings; pterostigma almost completely reddish; male: length of longer ciliated hairs of first antennal segment approximately 5 times width of segment; pygophore with conspicuous rounded lateral apophysis; median process of pygophore thin and digitiform; body of parameres within pygophore rim; parameres thinner and strongly curved apically, with short and curved appendix in distal portion of apical teeth...................... T. grossii

7. Forewing with a reddish area on pterostigma; mesoscutellar spine completely white.................. T. albispina sp. nov.

7’. Forewing without reddish areas; mesoscutellar spine either completely brown or just apically white.................... 8

8. Anteroventral and posteroventral spines of head subequal in length; hind lobe of pronotum blackish; middle and hind femora with pair of apical short spines; forewings brownish, with basal portion and two yellowish transverse bands in basal half, and pair of large whitish spots in distal half; male: length of longer ciliated hairs of first antennal segment approximately 5 times width of segment; paramere strongly curved apically; conspicuous triangular appendix on apical teeth; some endosoma projections with small acute spines...................................................................... T. baenai

8´. Anteroventral head spine shorter than posteroventral; hind lobe of pronotum yellowish; apices of middle and hind femora without spines; forewings yellowish with incomplete darkened markings, in which darkened veins stand out; male: length of longer ciliated hairs of first antennal segment approximately 6 times width of segment; paramere thinner, with little apical curvature; triangular appendix on apical teeth small; endosoma projections smooth............................ T. marquesi