Flata Fabricius
Creators: name: Peng, Ling-Fei
name: Fletcher, Murray J.
name: Zhang, Ya-Lin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Flatidae
Flata

description: Key to the Oriental species of the genus Flata Fabricius
1. Tegmina without spots.................................................................................. 2
-. Tegmina with scattered spots............................................................................ 3
2. Overall length about 12 mm, genitalia as illustrated (Fig. 1 B).................................. F. ferrugata Fabricius
-. Overall length more than 17 mm ..................................................... F. coromandelica (Spinola)
3. Overall length about 12 mm ............................................................................. 4
-. Overall length at least 16 mm ............................................................................ 5
4. Tegmina with black spots, sutural angle convex; apex of male anal segment oval inflated (Fig. 1 C).... F. guttularis (Walker)
-. Tegmina with red, orange or black spots, sutural angle acute; apex of male anal segment not inflated (Fig. 1 D).................................................................................................. F. stellaris (Walker)
5. Metatibia bearing six spines apically; tegmina with apical margin elongate convex, apical and sutural angles rounded (Fig. 7 D)................................................................................. F. punctipennis (Distant)
-. Metatibia bearing seven spines apically; tegmina with apical margin convex or truncate, apical and sutural angles truncate or rounded............................................................................................. 6
6. Tegmina with apical margin elongate convex, apical angle rounded.............................................. 7
-. Tegmina with apical margin truncate, apical angle acute angled................................................. 9
7. A paired long lateral lobe positioned at the apical third of thecal flank (Fig. 4 D)..................... F. orientala sp. nov.
-. A paired short lateral lobe or a paired long ridge positioned at thecal flank........................................ 8
8. Dorsolateral lobe of phallobase with two pairs of processes at apex, outer long and recurved, inner short (Fig. 12 C); subapical lateral portion of theca with a long ridge (Fig. 12 B)............................................. F. taiwana sp. nov.
-. Dorsolateral lobe of phallobase with two pairs of processes at apex, both pairs very short (Fig. 6 E); theca with a paired small lateral lobe (Fig. 6 F)...................................................................... F. pinga sp. nov.
9. Male anal tube not inflated and sinuate at apex (Fig. 10 D); ventral lobe of phallobase with three processes (Figs. 10 E, G).......................................................................................... F. sinuata sp. nov.
-. Male anal tube inflated and not sinuate at apex (Fig. 14 E); ventral lobe of phallobase, with only one process (Fig. 14 G).......................................................................................... F. truncata sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Peng, Ling-Fei, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2012, Review of the Oriental planthopper genus Flata Fabricius (Hemiptera: Fulgoroidea: Flatidae) with the description of five new species, pp. 1-22 in Zootaxa 3399 on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.281824