Empoasca (Matsumurasca) thapae Dworakowska 1994
Creators: name: Liu, Yang
name: Qin, Dao-Zheng
name: Fletcher, Murray J.
name: Zhang, Ya-Lin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Empoasca
Empoasca thapae

description: Empoasca (Matsumurasca) thapae Dworakowska, 1994
(Figs 128–137)
Empoasca (Matsumurasca) thapae Dworakowska, 1994: 104
Type locality. Rumtek, Sikkim, India. (SMTD). Distribution. India (Sikkim).
Key to species of the subgenus Empoasca (Matsumurasca Anufriev) (3)
1. Aedeagal shaft very short, less than half length of preatrium................................................... 2
- Aedeagal shaft long, nearly as long as, or even longer than, preatrium............................................ 3
2. Ventral pygofer appendage bent caudodorsad in basal third and adorned with tufted hairs in apical third, apex smooth on ven- tral side (Fig. 27)........................................................................ E. (M.) clypealata
- Ventral pygofer appendage slightly curved dorsad in middle portion and adorned with sparse minute hairs subterminally, apex delicately serrated on ventral side (Figs 93, 94)................................................ E. (M.) parvifacia
3. Aedeagal shaft with ventral processes..................................................................... 4
- Aedeagal shaft without ventral processes................................................................... 9
4. Aedeagal shaft with teeth on dorsal side (Fig. 123)........................................ E. (M.) spinalis, sp. nov.
- Aedeagal shaft without teeth on dorsal side................................................................. 5
5. Aedeagal shaft with two pairs of ventral processes........................................................... 6
- Aedeagal shaft with one pair of ventral processes............................................................ 7
6. Aedeagal shaft with both pairs of ventral processes at base (Fig. 132)................................. E. (M.) thapae
- Aedeagal shaft with one pair of ventral processes at base and second pair subapically (Fig. 114)........ E. (M.) quadrialata
7. Aedeagal shaft curved in lateral view (Fig. 71), gonopore subterminally on ventral side (Fig. 70)............ E. (M.) dolichi
- Aedeagal shaft nearly straight in lateral view, gonopore terminal................................................ 8
8. Ventral pygofer appendage slightly S-shaped, directed caudad (Fig. 53)............................... E. (M.) diversa
- Ventral pygofer appendage nearly straight, bent and directed dorsad at its base (Fig. 2)...................... E. (M.) aino
9. Aedeagal shaft with pair of processes at apex............................................................... 10
- Aedeagal shaft without pair of processes at apex............................................................ 11
10. Anal tube process of almost the same width throughout and distinctly toothed at apex (Fig. 44).... E. (M.) dentalis, sp. nov.
- Anal tube process strongly narrowed apically and not toothed at apex (Fig. 19)................ E. (M.) biprocessa, sp. nov.
11. Ventral pygofer appendage smooth, not serrated or coarsely sculptured.......................................... 12
- Ventral pygofer appendage serrated terminally or subterminally, or coarsely sculptured subterminally.................. 13
12. Aedeagal shaft arcuate in lateral view, with acute ventroapical projection (Figs 11, 12); anal tube process straight through most of length (Fig. 9)............................................................................ E. (M.) biloba
- Aedeagal shaft straight in lateral view, without acute ventroapical projection (Figs 83–86); anal tube process evenly curved (Fig. 81)................................................................................... E. (M.) onukii
13. Ventral pygofer appendage serrated terminally or subterminally................................................ 14
- Ventral pygofer appendage coarsely sculptured subterminally, not serrated............................. E. (M.) schima
14. Ventral pygofer appendage serrated terminally, exceeding caudal margin of pygofer lobe (Figs 35, 36)...... E. (M.) conifera
- Ventral pygofer appendage serrated subterminally at ventral side, not exceeding caudal margin of pygofer lobe (Figs 72, 73)........................................................................................ E. (M.) latissima
description: Published as part of Liu, Yang, Qin, Dao-Zheng, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Ya-Lin, 2011, Review of Empoasca (Matsumurasca) Anufriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Empoascini), with description of three new species from China, pp. 22-42 in Zootaxa 3003 on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.207054