Mimotettix
Creators: name: Dai, Wu
name: Zhang, Yalin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Mimotettix

description: Key to species of the genus Mimotettix based on male adults
[Note: Male genitalia, either in part or complete are unknown for Mimotettix facialis (Distant) and Mimotettix hieroglyphicus (Distant) respectively, and these two species are therefore omitted from the key]
1. Pygophore with processes............................................................................................................................................. 2
- Pygophore without processes........................................................................................................................................ 6
2. Pygophore with process at dorsal margin (Figs 4 A, 9A).............................................................................................. 3
- Pygophore with process at ventral margin (Figs 6 A, 12A, 15A) ................................................................................. 4
3. Pygophore with process at mid-dorsal margin (Fig. 9 A), style apical process very short (Fig.9 B), aedeagal shaft with a pair of triangular-shape flanges dorsally on each side (Fig. 9 E) .................................... M. fanjingensis (Li & Wang)
- Pygophore with process at dorsal-posterior margin (Fig. 4 A), style apical process long (Fig. 4 C), aedeagal shaft without triangular-shape flanges dorsally (Fig. 4 F) ................................................................... M. brevicornis sp. nov.
4. Pygophore with ventral process near caudal margin (Figs 6 A, 12A)........................................................................... 5
- Pygophore with ventral process at mid margin (Fig. 15 A) ........................................................... M. tibetensis sp. nov.
5. Aedeagal shaft robust, with pair of triangular-shape flanges on dorsal surface (Fig. 12 F) ....... M. spinosus Li & Xing
- Aedeagal shaft thin, without triangular-shape flanges on dorsal surface (Fig. 6 E)....................... M. dietrichi sp. nov.
6. Aedeagal shaft with a pair of distal triangular-shape flanges on dorsal surface (Figs 7 D, 10A) ................................. 7
- Aedeagal shaft with or without a pair of narrow flanges on dorsal surface .................................................................8
7. Aedeagal process with length more than 2/3 length of shaft (Fig. 10 A) ...................................... M. lateralis (Walker)
- Aedeagal process with length approximately 1/2 length of shaft (Fig. 7 D) ........................ M. distiflangentus sp. nov.
8. Pygophore with a row macrosetae at anterior dorsal margin (Fig. 11 G); aedeagal shaft straight (Fig. 11 D) ................ ........................................................................................................................................................ M. rectatus sp. nov.
- Pygophore without a row macrosetae at anterior dorsal margin; aedeagal shaft curved dorsally................................ 9
9. Aedeagal shaft deeply concave ventrally or dorsally ................................................................................................. 10
- Aedeagal shaft not deeply concave ventrally or dorsally ........................................................................................... 11
10. Aedeagal shaft deeply concave ventrally (Fig. 14 E) ............................................................ M. slenderus (Li & Wang)
- Aedeagal shaft deeply concave dorsally (Fig. 8 E) ................................................................. M. dorsocavatus sp. nov.
11. Aedeagal shaft without flanges on dorsal surface (Fig. 13 E); pygophore slightly protruding at ventroposterior angle (Fig. 13 A) ................................................................................................................................. M. robustistylus sp. nov.
- Aedeagal shaft with narrow flanges on dorsal surface (Figs 3 B–E, 5F); pygophore acutely rounded posteriorly (Figs 3 A, 5C)........................................................................................................................................................................ 12
12. Aedeagal shaft broadest at mid-length in lateral view, process with length about 2/3 length of shaft (Fig.1 B–E)........ ......................................................................................................................................... M. alboguttulatus (Melichar)
- Aedeagal shaft evenly tapered from base to apex in lateral view, process similar in length to that of shaft (Fig. 5 F) .. .............................................................................................................................................. M. curticeps Kwon & Lee
description: Published as part of Dai, Wu & Zhang, Yalin, 2010, Review of the Old World leafhopper genus Mimotettix Matsumura (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) with description of new species, pp. 1-26 in Zootaxa 2651 on pages 3-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.198836