Cofana Melichar
Creators: name: Krishnankutty, Hu. M.
name: Viraktamath, Ra. A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Cofana

description: Key to the species of the genus Cofana Melichar from India based on adult males and females   
1. Pronotum with median longitudinal fuscous line extending onto scutellum (Fig. 9)..................................2  
- Pronotum without median longitudinal fuscous line or, if line present, not extending onto scutellum (Fig. 35)................................................................................................................................................................5  
 2. Aedeagal shaft with two short acute processes anteapically (Figs. 10, 11); female seventh sternite rounded..................................................................................................................................... C. bidentata sp. nov.   
- Aedeagal shaft without two short anteapical processes; female seventh sternite with bi- or trilobed caudal prolongation (Figs. 26, 34)..........................................................................................................................3  
 3. Dark brown (Fig. 6); aedeagal shaft triangular in lateral aspect (Fig. 45) .................... C. spiculata sp. nov.   
- Pale ochraceous (Fig. 3); aedeagal shaft not triangular in lateral aspect (Fig. 19)......................................4  
 4. Aedeagal shaft broadest near base, strongly tapering distally, dorsal apodeme separated from shaft by less than maximum width of shaft in lateral aspect (Fig. 28); female seventh sternite with caudal projection undulate (Fig. 34) ............................................................................................................ C. nigrilinea (Stål)   
 - Aedeagal shaft gradually broadened to near apex and then narrowed (Fig. 19), dorsal apodeme separated from shaft by more than maximum width of shaft in lateral aspect; female seventh sternite with caudal projection bilobed (Fig. 26) ............................................................................................ C. lineata (Distant)   
5. Anterior margin of head broadly rounded, with median apical spot (Figs. 35, 52), large species measuring> 7 mm..........................................................................................................................................................6  
 - Anterior margin of head narrowly rounded, without median apical spot (Fig. 60), small species measuring 5.9–7.0 mm .......................................................................................................... C. unimaculata (Signoret)   
 6. Forewing white, with appendix and surrounding areas of same texture as rest of wing; aedeagus in lateral aspect narrowly V-shaped (Fig. 36); apex of style acutely pointed (Fig. 41); female seventh sternite broadly convex with margin undulate (Fig. 43) ............................................................ C. spectra (Distant)   
 - Forewing greenish (Fig. 7); appendix and surrounding area membranous; aedeagus in lateral aspect broadly V-shaped (Fig. 53); apex of style bluntly pointed (Fig. 57); hind margin of female seventh sternite distinctly tridentate (Fig. 59) ...................................................................................... C. subvirescens (Stål)
description: Published as part of Krishnankutty, Hu. M. & Viraktamath, Ra. A., 2008, Notes on the leafhopper genus Cofana Melichar (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellinae) from India with description of two new species, pp. 35-49 in Zootaxa 1874 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1874.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/5133660