Revision of the Oriental leafhopper genus Parallygus Melichar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) with description of new species
Author
Dai, Wu
Author
Zhang, Yalin
text
Zootaxa
2012
3157
41
53
journal article
45676
10.5281/zenodo.210583
e6ee161c-0e9a-461b-bec9-ef251bf6cd8e
1175-5326
210583
Key to species of
Parallygus
Melichar
1. Aedeagal shafts with basal and ventral processes (
Figs 4
F, 5F–G)............................................... 2
- Aedeagal shafts without basal and ventral processes (
Figs 3
D–E, 6B–C, 7J–K)..................................... 3
2. Ventral process of aedeagal shaft strongly curved in distal 0.2 (
Fig. 4
F) (
Sri Lanka
)...............
P. divaricatus
Melichar
- Ventral process of aedeagal shaft straight (
Fig. 5
F) (
China
: Zheijiang, Guangxi, Hunan,
Taiwan
;
India
: Matheran)............................................................................................
P. guttatus
Matsumura
3. Aedeagal shafts gradually narrowed to attenuated apex (
Figs 6
C, 7K)............................................ 4
- Aedeagal shafts abruptly narrowed at midlength and with caudally projecting conical process (
Fig. 3
D)..................................................................................
P. burmindicus
Viraktamath & Webb
,
sp. nov.
4. Pygofer with membranous rounded dorsally directed lobe (
Fig. 7
D); aedeagal shafts strongly convoluted, each shaft in lateral aspect slender at base then gradually narrowed distally (
Figs 7
J–K) (
India
: Himachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, West Bengal)....................................................................
P. rameshi
Viraktamath & Webb
,
sp. nov.
- Pygofer lacking dorsally directed membranous lobe but with subcaudal and caudal processes in lateral aspect (
Fig. 6
A); aedeagal shaft less strongly convoluted, each shaft stout basally in lateral view, more strongly narrowed in distal 0.33 length (
Figs 6
B–C) (
China
: Anhui).....................................................
P. jiuhuaensis
Dai & Zhang
,
sp. nov.