Natalicolinae Stål, 1865


Key to genera:

1
Antennae of five articles
2
2
second antennomere less than half as long as the first, African genus
Encosternum Spinola

second antennomere longer than the first, Indian genus Empysarus Martin
3
second and third antennomere subequal in length, abdomen ovoid 5

Second antennomere about 1.5 times longer than third, abdomen broadly rounded 4
4
Antennae slender, long, ocellae close to each other (interocellar distance about 1/4 of diatone), anterior margins of pronotum slightly concave, not produced.
Cyclogastridea Reuter


Antennae stouter, shorter, ocellae distant, closer to the eyes (interocellar distance about 1/3 of diatone), anterior margins of pronotum broadly concave, produced. Natalicola Spinola
5
Coria dotted with small white callous tubercles
Elisabetha Schoudeten

Not as above
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6
Metasternal carina broad, extending laterally between between meso- and metacoxae
Haplosterna Westwood

Metasternal carina thin, elevated, not extending between meso- and metacoxae
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7
Mesosternal carina broader posteriorely
Selenymenum Montandon

Mesosternal carina narrow and tapering posteriorely
Stevesonius Rider,

comment: This key is diverging from the one given by Kumar (1974), which would give an opposite result concerning Selenymenum and Stevesonius. But examination of Jeannel type of Stevesonius acutus and of his descriptive drawings clearly agrees with a narrow mesosternal carina. It is not so clear relatively to Selenymenum, and in fact, one could ask if the distinction between those two genera is justified or not.

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