Mayawa Fletcher 2000
Creators: name: Dietrich, Christopher H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Mayawa

description: Key to species of Mayawa
1. Crown of head with pair of large submedial black spots (Fig. 3B)............................................... 2
-. Crown of head without large spots, with broken transverse line or multiple pairs of small spots (Fig. 2B), or without distinct markings (Fig. 4B).................................................................................... 3
2. Spots on crown extended onto face (Fig. 3B)................................................ bimaculata sp. nov.
-. Spots on crown not extended onto face, face usually with separate pair of black spots below crown margin................................................................................................... capitata (Kirkaldy)
3. Head without distinct brown markings on crown (Fig. 4B).................................................... 4
-. Head with small brown spots or lines near anterior margin of crown (Fig. 2B)..................................... 6
4. Male style apophysis slender and evenly curved laterad (Fig. 5G)................................... kathyae sp.nov.
-. Male style apophysis broad, posteromedial margin abruptly bent laterad (Fig. 4G)................................. 5
5. Crown between eyes approximately as long as wide; aedeagal shaft curved dorsad in lateral view........... flava Fletcher
-. Crown between eyes much shorter than wide (Fig. 4B); aedeagal shaft arcuate in lateral view (Fig. 4H).................................................................................................... brevicephala sp. nov.
6. Male style apophysis slender and evenly curved, posteromedial margin not distinctly angulate (Fig. 6F)................ 7
-. Male style apophysis usually broad, posteromedial margin distinctly angulate (Fig. 4G)............................. 9
7. Aedeagal shaft in posterior view distinctly tapered distad of preapical processes, distal processes less than one fifth as long as gonopore (Fig. 6H)....................................................................... vestigia sp. nov.
-. Aedeagal shaft in posterior view parallel-sided distad of preapical processes, distal processes at least one third as long as gonopore (Fig. 2G)....................................................................................... 8
8. Subgenital plate more than twice as long as maximum width; aedeagus with gonopore extended basad beyond distal process more than length of process (Fig. 2H); style apophysis more than 6x longer than basal width (Fig. 2F)..................................................................................................... affinifacialis sp. nov.
-. Subgenital plate distinctly less than twice as long as maximum width; aedeagus with gonopore extended only slightly basad of distal process; style apophysis approximately 4x longer than basal width............................. facialis Fletcher
9. Male style apophysis with lateral projection oriented basolaterad.................................... fusca Fletcher
-. Male style apophysis with lateral projection oriented distolaterad or laterad (Fig. 4G).............................. 10
10. Male subgenital plate with posteromedial notch................................................ neoflava Fletcher
-. Male subgenital plate truncate apically, without posteromedial notch................................ carolae Fletcher
description: Published as part of Dietrich, Christopher H., 2021, New species of Mayawa Fletcher and description of a related new Australian leafhopper genus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Paralimnini), pp. 575-585 in Zootaxa 4933 (4) on page 578, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4933.4.8, http://zenodo.org/record/4556765