Glenosema Kieffer 1905

Key to Afrotropical species of Glenosema (♀)

1. Fully winged forms (Fig. 7B)............................................................................ 2

- Micropterous or brachypterous forms (Fig. 1B).............................................................. 4

2. Head barrel-shaped, distinctly longer than wide; median clypeal lobe trapezoidal (Fig. 7C)........... G. umphanda sp. nov.

- Head progressively widening anterad, distinctly wider than long; median clypeal lobe pointed......................... 3

3. Forewing with two distinct infuscate areas, 2r-rs&Rs vein much shorter than M+Cu vein; median clypeal lobe not crenulate............................................................................................... G. durum

- Forewing not bifasciate, 2r-rs&Rs vein about as long as M+Cu vein; median clypeal lobe crenulate.......... G. denteatum

4. Body robust, head and metapectal-propodeal disc much wider than long (Fig. 3B, C)..................... G. deki sp. nov.

- Body slender, head and metapectal-propodeal disc longer than wide (Fig. 6B, C)................................... 5

5. Head barrel-shaped, distinctly longer than wide, at least 1.2 × as long as wide; eye small, VOL at least 2.0 × HE (Fig. 6C)....................................................................................... G. umphanda sp. nov.

- Head wider at eye level, at most 1.1 × as long as wide; eye large, VOL at most 1.5 × HE (Fig. 5C)..................... 6

6. Mesoscutum-mesoscutellar suture absent (Fig. 4B).......................................................... 7

- Mesoscutum-mesoscutellar suture present (Fig. 1B).......................................................... 8

7. WF ~1.2 × HE; OOL ~3.6 × WOT; VOL ~1.0 × HE (Fig. 5C); mesoscutellum bulging, surface convex in profile (Fig. 5B)........................................................................................... G. tyaba sp. nov.

- WF ~1.6 × HE; OOL ~4.1 × WOT; VOL ~1.3 × HE (Fig. 4C); mesoscutellum flat, surface straight in profile (Fig. 4B).......................................................................................... G. ebazileyo sp. nov.

8. Head and mesosoma light castaneous (Fig. 1A); metapectal-propodeal disc strigate (Fig. 1B)................. G. niloticum

- Head and mesosoma dark castaneous, black or nearly so (Fig. 2A); metapectal-propodeal disc areolate (Fig. 2B).......... 8

9. Metapostnotal-propodeal carina irregular and incomplete; paraspiracular carina short....................... G. elevatum

- Metapostnotal-propodeal and paraspiracular carinae absent (Fig. 2B)............................. G. qaqambile sp. nov.