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We reassess the palpal bulb morphology and taxonomy of Neischnocolus Petrunkevitch, 1925 based on the examination of several types of previously described species and the description of three new species (N. moraspungo Cisneros-Heredia, Pe\u00f1aherrera-R., Guerrero-Campoverde, Le\u00f3n-E., Gabriel\u00a0&amp;#38; Sherwood sp.\u00a0nov., N. samonellaacademy Pe\u00f1aherrera-R., Le\u00f3n-E., Guerrero-Campoverde, Gabriel, Sherwood\u00a0&amp;#38; Cisneros-Heredia sp.\u00a0nov., and N. tiputini Guerrero-Campoverde, Pe\u00f1aherrera-R., Le\u00f3n-E., Gabriel, Sherwood\u00a0&amp;#38; Cisneros-Heredia sp.\u00a0nov.) from Ecuador. A new keel structure is named and herein considered as a valid diagnostic feature for the genus, previously identified as a prolateral inferior keel. The rest of the keel identification of Neischnocolus is also relabelled in concordance with Bertani\u2019s (2000) keel homology hypothesis. 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