Catonidia Uhler 1896
Creators: name: Lv, Sha-Sha
name: Long, Jian-Kun
name: Yang, Lin
name: Chen, Xiang-Sheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Achilidae
Catonidia

description: Key to species of the genus Catonidia Uhler, 1896
1. Anterior margin of vertex angular or undulate ................................................................................. 2
– Anterior margin of vertex rounded ................................................................................................... 8
2. Forewing milk-white ........................................................................................................................ 3
– Forewing yellowish brown ............................................................................................................... 5
3. Clavus of forewing with only a few small markings; mesonotum pale yellowish brown (Chen & He 2009: fig. 13) .................................................................................................. C. lii Chen & He, 2009
– Clavus of forewing with large brown markings; mesonotum brown ............................................... 4
4. Clavus of forewing with a fuscous marking near apex; posterior margin of pronotum yellowish (Wang et al. 1991: fig. 3a, c) ...................................................... C. emeiensis Wang & Huang, 1991
– Clavus apex ½ to costal margin with a broad brown marking (Figs 13, 17); posterior margin of pronotum brown (Figs 13, 15) .............................................................................. C. saccata sp. nov.
5. Anterior margin of vertex undulate (Figs 36, 38); pronotum brown, posterior margin milk-white (Figs 36, 38) ........................................................................................................ C. uncinata sp. nov.
– Anterior margin of vertex angular; color of pronotum uniform ....................................................... 6
6. Mesonotum with central area fuscous; anterior margin of forewing with eight arcuate dark markings (Wang et al. 1990: fig. 2a–b) ................................................... C. fujianensis Wang & Huang, 1990
– Color of mesonotum not as above; forewing without above markings ............................................ 7
7. Mesonotum light yellowish brown at the top ⅓, ⅔ yellowish brown (Figs 24, 26); veins of forewing yellowish brown (Figs 24–25) ............................................................................ C. trilobata sp. nov.
– Mesonotum pale fulvous; veins of forewing pale .......................................... C. sobrina Uhler, 1896
8. Forewing without markings (Wang et al. 1991: fig. 2c) ........ C. guadunensis Wang & Huang, 1991
– Forewing with markings ................................................................................................................... 9
9. Costal area of forewing with two fuscous markings near apical angle (Wang et al. 1991: fig. 1c) ... ..................................................................................................... C. tibetensis Wang & Huang, 1991
– Costal area of forewing without above markings ........................................................................... 10
10. Medioventral process of pygofer concave at apex in ventral view ..................................................11
– Medioventral process of pygofer convex at apex in ventral view .................................................. 12
11. Forewing with a sinuate, broad, brown stripe from hind margin to apical angle; medioventral process relatively slender in ventral view (Chen & He 2009: figs 3, 6) .......................................................... .............................................................................................. C. wuyishanana Wang & Huang, 1990
– Forewing without above markings; medioventral process stout in ventral view (Chen et al. 1989: fig. 2d, g) ........................................................................ C. constricta (Chen, Yang & Wilson, 1989)
12. Medioventral process of pygofer in ventral view triangular, lateral margins straight (Fig. 8) ........... ............................................................................................................................ C. triangula sp. nov.
– Medioventral process of pygofer nearly rounded, lateral margins curved ..................................... 13
13. Posterior margin of pygofer with one broad process; dorsal lobe of phallobase stout and tooth-like (Long & Chen 2012: figs 7, 11) ........................................................... C. choui Long & Chen, 2012
– Posterior margin of pygofer with two small processes; dorsal lobe of phallobase vestigial (Chen & He 2009: figs 26, 30) .................................................................. C. daozhenensis Chen & He, 2009
description: Published as part of Lv, Sha-Sha, Long, Jian-Kun, Yang, Lin & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2024, Four new species of the planthopper genus Catonidia Uhler, 1896 from China (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Achilidae), pp. 127-143 in European Journal of Taxonomy 943 on page 130, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.943.2589, http://zenodo.org/record/12656822