Pitambara Distant 1906
Creators: name: Wang, Menglin
name: Soulier-Perkins, Adeline
name: Wang, Yinglun
name: Bourgoin, Thierry
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Lophopidae
Pitambara

description: Key to the species of Pitambara Distant, 1906
1. Tegmina with a costal hyaline patch (Figs 1, 5, 16, 27, Chp)............................................................ 2
– Costal hyaline patch absent ............................................................................................................. 10
2. Apical hyaline patch of tegmina without any stripe inside......................... P. dawnana Distant, 1912
– Apical hyaline patch of tegmina with a sinuate stripe inside (Figs 3, 5, 16, 27, Ahp) ...................... 3
3. Apical hyaline patch of tegmina delineated by the B line (Fig. 2) ............... P. montana Distant, 1912
– Apical hyaline patch of tegmina delineated by the A line (Fig. 2) .................................................... 4
4. Frons with the area between sublateral carinae reddish ........................ P. rubrofasciata Liang, 2000
– Frons with the area between sublateral carinae not reddish .............................................................. 5
5. Vertex with three longitudinal stripes (Figs 8, 19, 30) ...................................................................... 6
– Vertex without stripe.................................................................................. P. assamensis Liang, 2000
6. Frons white, sublateral carinae brown, with two brown bands near lateral angles of frons (Fig. 31)... ...................................................................................................... P. tricorne Wang & Wang, sp. nov.
– Coloration of frons and carinae different........................................................................................... 7
7. Frons with a white transverse band at base (Fig. 9) .......................................................................... 8
– Frons without white transverse band at base ..................................................................................... 9
8. Longitudinal stripes on vertex extremely slim ......................................... P. interrupta Distant, 1906
– Longitudinal stripes on vertex thick (Fig. 8) ....... P. triremiprocta Wang & Soulier-Perkins, sp. nov.
9. Tegmina with a basal hyaline patch (Figs 1, 16, Bhp).......... P. impudica Wang & Bourgoin, sp. nov.
– Basal hyaline patch absent................................................................. P. tonkinensis Lallemand, 1942
10. Tegmina with median hyaline patch (Fig. 1, Mhp)...........................................................................11
– Median hyaline patch absent ........................................................................................................... 12
11. Frons reddish in median and lateral part.......................................................... P. tagalica (Stål, 1854)
– Frons yellowish, without any red colour .................................................... P. undulata Distant, 1906
12. Vertex with a longitudinal stripe...................................................................................................... 13
– Vertex without any marking............................................................................................................. 14
13. Apical hyaline patch of tegmina containing a thick stripe reaching the apical margin of tegmina by one end (Fig. 4); sublateral carinae of frons brownish .......................... P. nigrofuscata Liang, 2000
– Apical hyaline patch of tegmina containing a slim sinuate brownish line the apical margin of tegmina by both of its ends (Fig. 3); sublateral carinae of frons yellowish................... P. sinuata Distant, 1906
14. Tegmina mostly brownish, some discolorations are present on the basal and claval area; fore femora with basal half black, apical half yellowish with two fuscous stripes.......... P. radians (Kirby, 1891)
– Tegmina mostly black without any discoloration within the medo-basal and claval area; fore femora yellowish with several fuscous transverse stripes ..................................... P. borneensis Baker, 1925
description: Published as part of Wang, Menglin, Soulier-Perkins, Adeline, Wang, Yinglun & Bourgoin, Thierry, 2016, Taxonomic updates and descriptions of four new Lophopini planthopper species (Hemiptera, Fulgoroidea, Lophopidae) from Yunnan province, South China, pp. 1-25 in European Journal of Taxonomy 185 on pages 4-5, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.185, http://zenodo.org/record/3833136