Mitjaevia
Creators: name: Song, Yuehua
name: Li, Zizhong
name: Xiong, Kangning
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Mitjaevia

description: Key to species of the genus Mitjaevia
1 Aedeagus with one or two pairs of processes............................................................... 2
- Aedeagus without any process.......................................................................... 12
2 Paired processes arising from preatrium of aedeagus............................... M. narzikulovi Korolevskaja, 1976
- Paired processes arising from aedeagal shaft................................................................ 3
3 Aedeagal shaft with pair of processes at base ventrally........................................................4
- Aedeagal shaft with distal or sub-distal processes........................................................... 10
4 Aedeagal shaft bifurcate at apex.......................................................................... 5
- Aedeagal shaft not bifurcate at apex.......................................................................6
5 Processes at base of aedeagal shaft ventrally thin, needle-like............................ M. aurea Dworakowska, 1994
- Processes at base of aedeagal shaft ventrally thick, sickle-like............................... M. diana (Distant, 1918)
6 Apical part of style bilobate.................................................... M. callosa Dworakowska, 1980
- Apical part of style not bilobate.......................................................................... 7
7 Gonopore at apex of shaft............................................................................... 8
- Gonopore at about middle of shaft........................................................................ 9
8 Aedeagal shaft with pair of small, triangle-like processes subapically (Figs. 8, 9)................ M. protuberanta sp. nov.
- Aedeagal shaft without pair of processes subapically............................... M.elegantula Dworakowska, 1994
9 Aedeagal shaft with basal processes ventrally, short and slim, thorn-like.............. M. sikkimensis Dworakowska, 1994
- Aedeagal shaft with basal processes ventrally, long and strong, finger-like................ M. aurantiaca (Mitjaev, 1969)
10 Aedeagal shaft with pair of long appendages at subapex...................................................... 11
- Aedeagal shaft with pair of short distal appendages.............................. M. notata (Ahmed & Khokhar, 1971)
11 Paired long processes curved dorsally............................................. M. bibichanae (Dlabola, 1961)
- Paired long processes curved ventrally (Fig. 18)......................................... M. wangwushana sp. nov.
12 Aedeagus with gonopore situated at subapex of aedeagal shaft................................................. 13
- Aedeagus with gonopore situated near median of aedeagal shaft........................... M. maculata (Ahmed, 1970)
13 Aedeagal shaft expanded distinctly in lateral view........................................ M. amseli (Dlabola, 1961)
- Aedeagal shaft not expanded distinctly in lateral view........................................................ 14
14 Preapical lobe enormously large............................................. M. tappana Chiang & Knight, 1990
- Preapical lobe quite small.............................................................................. 15
15 Aedeagus dorsal apodeme obvious in lateral view............................. M. korolevskayae Dworakowska, 1979
- Aedeagus dorsal apodeme absent or vestigial................................. M. nanaoensis Chiang & Knight, 1990
description: Published as part of Song, Yuehua, Li, Zizhong & Xiong, Kangning, 2011, Two new species of the genus Mitjaevia Dworakowska from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae), pp. 26-30 in Zootaxa 2805 on page 27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201915