Mimotettix Matsumura 1914
Creators: name: Hu, Shangmi
name: Ran, Siyu
name: Xing, Jichun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Mimotettix

description: Checklist of Mimotettix species from China
M. alboguttulatus (Melichar, 1903)
Distribution: China (Guizhou, Sichuan, Fujian, Guangxi, Yunnan); Japan; India; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Vietnam; Africa.
M. articularis Xing & Li, 2013
Distribution. China (Guizhou).
M. curticeps Kwon & Lee, 1979
Distribution. China (Hunan, Hainan, Hubei, Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Guizhou, Taiwan); Japan; Korea; Russia M. distiflangentus Dai, Zhang & Webb, 2010
Distribution: China (Yunnan).
M. dorsocavatus Dai, Zhang & Webb, 2010
Distribution: China (Yunnan).
M. fanjingensis (Li & Wang, 2005)
Distribution. China (Guizhou).
M. fodingshanensis sp. nov.
Distribution: China (Guizhou).
M. multispinosus Wei & Xing, 2018
Distribution: China (Yunnan).
M. robustistylus Dai, Zhang & Webb, 2010
Distribution: China (Yunnan).
M. sinuatus Wei & Xing, 2018
Distribution: China (Yunnan).
M. slenderus (Li & Wang, 2005)
Distribution. China (Fujian, Guangdong); Thailand; Vietnam.
M. spinosus Li & Xing, 2010
Distribution: China (Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi); Malaysia.
M. tibetensis Dai, Zhang & Webb, 2010
Distribution. China (Tibet).
Key to Chinese species (males) of Mimotettix
1. Pygofer side without process............................................................................ 2 Pygofer side with process............................................................................... 8
2. Aedeagal process short, expanded apically with many fine spines.................................. M. multispinosus Aedeagal process elongate, tapered to apex, without spines.................................................... 3
3. Aedeagal shaft with a pair of distal triangular flanges on dorsal surface.............................. M. distiflangentus Aedeagal shaft without a pair of flanges on dorsal surface..................................................... 4
4. Aedeagal shaft deeply concave ventrally or dorsally.......................................................... 5 Aedeagal shaft not deeply concave ventrally or dorsally....................................................... 6
5. Aedeagal shaft deeply concave ventrally.......................................................... M. slenderus Aedeagal shaft deeply concave dorsally........................................................ M. dorsocavatus
6. Aedeagal shaft broadest at mid-length in lateral view, process with length about 2/3 length of shaft....... M. alboguttulatus Aedeagal shaft evenly tapered from base to apex in lateral view................................................ 7
7. Aedeagal process similar in length to that of shaft................................................... M. curticeps Aedeagal process about 1/2 length of shaft......................................................... M. sinuatus
8. Pygofer process movably articulated to ventral margin.............................................. M. articularis Pygofer side with process rigidly attached to ventral or dorsal margin............................................ 9
9. Pygofer side with process at dorsal margin...................................................... M. fanjingensis Pygofer side with process at ventral margin................................................................ 10
10. Subgenital plate very short, about 1/3 length of valve.................................... M. fodingshanensis sp. nov. Subgenital plate with length approximately equal that of valve................................................ 11
11. Aedeagal shaft without flanges on dorsal surface, pygofer side slightly protruding at ventroposterior angle.. M. robustistylus Aedeagal shaft with narrow flanges on dorsal surface, pygofer side acutely rounded posteriorly...................... 12
12. Pygofer side with ventral process at midlength of margin............................................. M. tibetensis Pygofer side with ventral process near caudal margin................................................ M. spinosus
description: Published as part of Hu, Shangmi, Ran, Siyu & Xing, Jichun, 2025, Description of a new species of the leafhopper genus Mimotettix Matsumura (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China, pp. 380-386 in Zootaxa 5570 (2) on pages 381-382, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5570.2.9, http://zenodo.org/record/14735196