Loxocephala Schaum
Creators: name: Wang, Menglin
name: Wang, Yinglun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Eurybrachidae
Loxocephala

description: Key to the species of Loxocephala Schaum
1. Tegmina with irregular transverse black network of stripes in basal half........................................... 2
- Tegmina without such network of stripes in basal half......................................................... 3
2. The network of stripes on tegmina robust, apical half without white patches; wings with a round spot near apex of costal mar- gin (Fig. 47); China (Xizang)........................................................... L. retinata Chou & Lu
- The network of stripes on tegmina delicate, apical half with three obvious white patches; wings without any spot near apex of costal margin (Fig. 49); China (Xizang)............................................. L. neoretinata Chou & Huang
3. Tegmina ornamented with one central transverse black fascia in apical part........................................ 4
- Tegmina without any central transverse black fascia in apical part............................................... 6
4. Wings without any markings before black apical margin (Fig. 39); India ........................... L. castanea Distant
- Wings with one subround spot or transverse fascia before black apical margin...................................... 5
5. Wings with one subround black spot before apical margin (Fig. 40); India, Bengal..................... L. decora Walker
- Wings with one transverse black fascia before apical margin (Fig. 45); China (Xizang)........... L. lisiera Huang & Wang
6. Tegmina with veins distinctly elevated and obviously reticulate, apical part suffused with fusco-piceous between areolate cells and veins yellow (Figs 78, 81); China (Xizang)......................................... L. mangkangensis sp. nov.
- Tegmina with veins flattened, apical part with one or more black spots........................................... 7
7. Tegmina with one round black spot in apical part............................................................. 8
- Tegmina with many round black spots in apical part.......................................................... 9
8. Tegmina with virescent spots in basal part intensively dense and concatenated into transverse fascia (Fig. 38); India ............................................................................................. L. aeruginosa Hope
- Tegmina with greyish spots in basal part relatively sparse and separated (Fig. 43); China (Yunnan).................................................................................................. L. unipunctata Chou & Huang
9. Costal margin of tegmen with one large nebulose white marking at middle, extending down to the center (Figs 55, 57); China (Gansu)........................................................................ L. nebulata Chou & Huang
- Costal margin of tegmen without such nebulose white marking at middle........................................ 10
10. Tegmina with apical margin black, black spots in apical half extremely large, forming two transverse bands (Fig. 15); Tonkin ................................................................................... L. maculata Lallemand
- Tegmina without apical margin black, black spots in apical half of tegmina relatively small, not forming two transverse bands................................................................................................... 11
11. The size and distribution of black spots on tegmina extremely irregular.......................................... 12
- The size and distribution of black spots on tegmina mainly uniform............................................. 13
12. Tegmina pale greenish brown in basal half with inconspicuous white spots, apical half tawny with three obliquely transverse macular fascia (Fig. 51); China (Yunnan)............................................ L. seropuntata Chou & Huang
- Tegmina wholly tawny, basal half with inconspicuous white spots, apical half with black spots not forming transverse fascia (Fig. 53); China (Yunnan)...................................................... L. semimaculata Chou & Huang
13. Tegmina with white spots restricted from basal 1/3 of costal margin to tip of clavus................................ 14
- Tegmina with an atrovirens or black subtriangular area restricted from basal 1/4–1/5 of costal margin to tip of clavus..... 16
14. Aedeagus with about seven transverse sclerotized wrinkles at basal part on each side in ventral view (Fig. 72); China (Shaanxi)...................................................................................... L. rugosa sp. nov.
- Aedeagus without any wrinkles at basal half in ventral view................................................... 15
15. Dorsal margin of eminence at base of aedeagus deeply excavate at basal third (Fig. 19); apical processes of aedeagus directed obviously outward in ventral view (Fig. 20); China (Shaanxi, Henan, Gansu)................... L. sinica Chou & Huang
- Dorsal margin of eminence at base of aedeagus slightly sinuate, with two very shallow incisions near base and apex (Fig. 31); apical processes of aedeagus directed inward in ventral view (Fig. 32); China (Sichuan)................................................................................................... L. sichuanensis Chou & Huang stat. nov.
16. Aedeagus with dorsal processes inserted between apical processes and shaft in apical part (Fig. 36); China (Yunnan)........................................................................................... L. perpunctata Jacobi
- Aedeagus with dorsal processes directed vertically upward in apical part in side view (Fig. 76); China (Yunnan)............................................................................................... L. verticalis sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Wang, Menglin & Wang, Yinglun, 2013, Review of the genus Loxocephala Schaum, 1850 (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Eurybrachidae) with description of three new species from China, pp. 176-198 in Zootaxa 3664 (2) on page 178, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3664.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/216735