Two new species of the genus Cicadatra Kolenati (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) from Pakistan
Author
Ahmed, Zubair
Department of Zoology, Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science & Technology, Karachi, Pakistan. & Department of Biology, Barry University, Miami Shores, 33161, USA. E-mail: asanborn @ barry. edu
Author
Akhter, Muhammad Atique
Department of Zoology, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan. E-mail: atiq. m. akhter @ gmail. com
text
Zootaxa
2013
2013-12-18
3750
2
176
184
journal article
4770
10.11646/zootaxa.3750.2.5
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1175-5326
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Key to the males of
Cicadatra
Kolenati
of
Pakistan
The key was produced by appending the new species to the key produced by
Ahmed
et al.
(2012)
.
1. Body length more than
24mm
, pronotal collar almost or entirely black............................................ 2
- Body length less than
24mm
, pronotal collar heavily marked with ochraceous, olivaceous or tawny..................... 4
2. Pronotal disk black.................................................................
C. acberi
(
Distant, 1888
)
- Pronotal disk ochraceous................................................................................ 3
3. Supra-antennal plate, cruciform elevation, and costal margin tawny..........................
C. persica
Kirkaldy, 1909
- Supra-antennal plate and cruciform elevation black, costal margin castaneous.....................
C. gingat
China
, 1926
4. Head castaneous.....................................................................
C. raja
(
Distant, 1906
)
- Head black...........................................................................................5
5. Radial and radiomedial crossveins not infuscated............................................................6
- Radial and radiomedial crossveins infuscated............................................................... 7
6. Pronotum castaneous marked with black, cruciform elevation black, male opercula overlapping medially, small marginal spot on hind wing.....................................................................
C. sankara
(
Distant, 1904
)
- Pronotum dark ochraceous marked with black, cruciform elevation marked with ochraceous, male opercula almost meeting medially, hind wing hyaline..................................................
C. karachiensis
Ahmed et al. 2010
7. Postclypeus black............................................................ ..
C. ziaratica
Ahmed
et al.
2012
- Postclypeus tawny marked with castaneous, black or light brown................................................ 8
8. Aedeagus with four spines..............................................................................9
- Aedeagus with more than or less than four spines........................................................... 10
9. Postclypeus marked with broad chestnut brown patch at base, radial and radiomedial crossveins lightly infuscated, pygofer broad, basal lobe of pygofer triangular, aedeagus with one long, two intermediate and one short spine, meracanthus pointed apically, timbal cover covering the greater part of the timbal.......................................
C. ashrafi
sp. n.
- Postclypeus without patch at base, radial and radiomedial crossveins darkly and broadly infuscated, pygofer narrow, basal lobe of pygofer not developed, aedeagus with three short and one long spine, meracanthus rounded apically, timbal cover covering a small part of timbal.................................................................
C. tandojamensis
sp. n.
10. Postclypeus with transverse grooves black...............................................
C. walkeri
Metcalf, 1963
- Postclypeus with medial castaneous or black stripe........................................
C. xantes
(Walker, 1850)