Sandersellus DeLong 1945
Creators: name: Nielson, M. W.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Sandersellus

description: Key to species of Sandersellus (males)
1. Male pygofer in lateral view with caudoventral process nearly reaching to or exceeding apex of caudodorsal lobe or process...........................................................................................................................................................................2
- Male pygofer in lateral view with caudoventral process not reaching apex of caudodorsal lobe or process.............. 6
2. Aedeagus with prominent spines or processes on shaft................................................................................................ 3
- Aedeagus glabrous or with small serrations or teeth on shaft ...................................................................................... 4
3. Aedeagus with paired ventral processes on middle of shaft. (Bolivia) ....................................... S. bigladius sp. nov.
- Aedeagus with single digitate process on apex of shaft ...................................................(Brazil) S. digitatus sp. nov.
4. Style with subapical spine or process (Nielson 1975: Figs 35, 40) .............................................................................. 5
- Style glabrous (Nielson 1975: Figs 50, 51) ................................................................ (Bolivia) S. linnavuorii Nielson
5. Aedeagus with shaft narrow in lateral and dorsal views, lateral margins parallel or nearly so (Nielson 1975: Figs. 37, 38) ...................................................................................................................................... (Bolivia) S. delongi Nielson
- Aedeagus with shaft broad in lateral and dorsal views, lateral margins not parallel (Nielson 1975: Figs 43, 44)......... ............................................................................................................................................... (Peru) S. ornatus Nielson
6) Aedeagus with distinctive processes on shaft............................................................................................................... 7
- Aedeagus glabrous, without processes ........................................................................................................................ 8
7. Aedeagus with paired long, distal processes ...................................................................... (Peru) S. bilanceus sp. nov.
- Adeagus with paired medial processes ......................................................................................................................... 9
8. Adeagus with serrated processes apically (Nielson 1975: Figs. 55, 56); style with row of teeth in distal 1/3 (Nielson 1975: Fig. 57)..................................................................................................................... (Peru) S. peniculus Nielson
- Aedeagus with glabrous processes (Fig. 62); style with subapical spine (Nielson 1975: Fig. 60)................................. .........................................................................................................................................(Bolivia) S. retrorsus Nielson
9. Style with distinctive subapical spine (Nielson 1975: Figs. 25, 29)......................................................................... 10
- Style with serrated flange subapically (Nielson 1981: Figs. 2, 3) ........................... (Panama) S. panamensis Nielson
10. Aedeagus with very broad shaft (Nielson 1975: Figs. 31, 32) .............................................. (Peru) S. simplex Nielson
- Aedeagus with very narrow shaft (Nielson 1975: Fig. 26)............................................... (Peru) S. carinatus DeLong
description: Published as part of Nielson, M. W., 2010, New leafhopper species and distribution records of Gabrita Walker, 1858 and Sandersellus DeLong, 1945 with revised keys to species (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Coelidiinae), pp. 39-47 in Zootaxa 2531 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2531.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5304683