Taxonomical notes on Oriental and Pacific jewel bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Scutelleridae) Author Tsai, Jing-Fu Author Rédei, Dávid text Zootaxa 2010 2572 25 47 journal article 47670 10.5281/zenodo.197410 89f036aa-8119-4bf2-96e8-1494770a4d6e 1175-5326 197410

TABLE 3. Diagnostic characters of Brachyaulax cyaneovitta (Walker, 1867) and B. oblonga (Westwood, 1837).

	Brachyaulax cyaneovitta (Walker, 1867) (Figs. 45–47, 57–65, 69–70)	Brachyaulax oblonga (Westwood, 1837) (Figs. 41–43, 49–56, 66–68, 71–72)
1.	pronotum widely margined with orange to red laterally (Fig. 45, 58)	lateral margin of pronotum metallic green, concolorous with disk (Fig. 41, 50)
2.	head short, strongly declivous (Fig. 46, 58)	head much longer (Fig. 42, 50)
3.	eye of male more or less subpedunculate (Fig. 45, 57)	eye (♂, Ψ) never subpedunculate (Fig. 49)
4.	evaporatorium widely extending to mesopleuron (Fig. 59)	evaporatorium extending to mesopleuron only as a very narrow stripe at its posterior margin (Fig. 51)
5.	posterior margin of pygophore broadly rounded, narrowly produced medially (Figs. 60, 61)	posterior margin of pygophore more or less prominent, deeply excised medially (Fig. 52, 53)
6.	paramere more strongly curved, inner margin of hook without teeth (Fig. 62–63)	paramere less curved, inner margin of hook with minute tooth-like processes (Fig. 54–56)
7.	dorsoapical part of phallotheca without tubercles (Fig. 64)	dorsoapical part of phallotheca with 1+1 small, triangular tubercles (Fig. 66, arrow)
8.	proximal portions of lateral conjunctival processes (CP- I I) me mbr ano us o r p artly sclerotized, distal membranous portion with a stout apical sclerotization (Fig. 64–65)	proximal portions of lateral conjunctival processes (CP- II) strongly sclerotized, shell-like, distal membranous portion with a long and sharp apical sclerotization (Fig. 66–68)
9.	ventrolateral conjunctival processes (CP-III) smaller and broadly separated (Fig. 65)	ventrolateral conjunctival processes (CP III) larger and more broadly separated (Fig. 68)
10.	fecundation sclerite broad, with an Y-shaped bifurcation apically (Fig. 69: fec)	fecundation sclerite narrow, with an Y-shaped bifurcation apically (Fig. 71: fec)
11.	dorsal wall of vagina with 1+1 small, ear-shaped membranous lobes laterad of fecundation sclerite (Fig. 69: ml)	dorsal wall of vagina with 1 +1 large, elongate membranous lobes laterad of fecundation sclerite, covering greatest part of the lateral vaginal pouches (Fig. 71: ml)