Identification key to the genus Pseudocrebotra

PSEUDOCREOBOTRA (Saussure,, 1870) 

Family HYMENOPODIDAE 
Subfamily HYMENOPODINAE 
Tribe HYMENOPODINI 

1. The pronotum is nearly as wide as it is long. - P. occelata 
The pronotum is wider than it long. - Go to 2. 

2. The tubercles of the hind part of the pronotum are sharp and the extension of the top of the head is longer than the height of the scutellum. The costal edges of the forewings are 3mm - 4mm wide. - P. wahlbergii 
The tubercles of the hind part of the pronotum are very small and the extension of the top of the head is shorter than the height of the scutellum. The costal areas of the fore wings are only 1mm wide. P. amarae 

The species are then described 

Pseudocreobotra occelata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1805) 

Green and white in colour. The antennae are ringed with black. The extension of the head is very finely split at the tip. The fore wings are longer than the abdomen and the costal areas are yellowish, the discoidal areas are opaque in the females but are more translucent in the males and are transparent in the last third in both sexes. There is a band near the base and 2 triangular spots against the yellow radial veins. There is a large eyespot formed by a large yellow circle with a green centre and a black point. The yellow circle is surrounded by 2 black spots and a crescent. The hind wings are transparent in the males and and lemon yellow in the females with a transparent hind edge. The abdominal segments have lobes at the sides. The front coxae are toothed. All of the femora have three green or brown bands. 

Length of the body M 25mm F 27 - 32mm 
Length of the pronotum M 5mm F 5.5 - 6mm 
Width of the pronotum M 5mm F 6 - 6.5mm 
Length of the forewings M 29mm F23 - 27mm 

Distribution 

Angola, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinea, Cameroon, Kenya, Zaire, Liberia, Mosambiqe, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, 

Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii (Stal, 1871) 

This species is similar to P. ocellata and has much longer extensions to the clypeus and scutellum. The extension of the top of the head is more divided at the tip and the pronotum is wider than it is long. The yellow spots and eye spots of the fore wings are larger and the spines on the front coxae are stronger. 

Length of the body M 29mm F 40mm 
Length of the pronotum M 7mm F 8mm 
Width of the pronotum M 8.5mm F 10.5mm 
Length of the fore wings M 34mm F 38mm 

Distribution 

Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Zaire, Malawi, Mosambique, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa 

Pseudocreobotra amarae (from a description of the female only)(Rehn, 1901) 

This species is very similar to P. wahlbergii but the tubercles on the back of the pronotum are much less defined. The extension of the top of the head is shorter than the height of the scutellum. The costal areas of the frore wings are only 1mm wide. 

Length of the body F 33mm 
Length of the pronotum F 6.75mm 
Width of the pronotum F 9mm 
Length of the fore wings F 32.5mm 

Distribution 

Somalia