Mukaria Distant 1908
Creators: name: Zhao, Yong-Tao
name: Luo, Qiang
name: Yang, Lin
name: Chen, Xiang-Sheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Mukaria

description: Key to Chinese species of Mukaria Distant, 1908 and Mukariella Viraktamath & Webb, 2019 (males)
1. Face flat or with slight convexity in lateral view; aedeagus with one shaft and one gonopore............... .. Mukariella, 2 Face thick in lateral view; aedeagus with two shafts and two gonopores.................................. Mukaria, 5
2. Body yellow; crown with a black spot in anterior margin.................................. .. Mu. testacea comb. nov. Body black; crown without black spot in anterior margin...................................................... 3
3. Body sides subparallel in dorsal view; clavus with irregular yellow stripes at commissural margin Mu. yanheensis comb. nov. Body widened posteriorly in dorsal view; clavus without stripes at commissural margin.............................. 4
4. Crown with a tawny vertical stripe at middle; subgenital plate apex constricted into membranous rods...... Mu. bambusana Crown without stripe; subgenital plate apex not membranous................................ Mu. pallipes comb. nov.
5. Pronotum black, outer margin of forewings or clavus mottled................................................... 6 Pronotum and forewings with bright yellow irregular stripes..................................... M. striola sp. nov.
6. Forewing black....................................................................................... 7 Forewing yellow or claval area yellow or claval area with white spots............................................ 9
7. Outer margin of forewing with two slightly transparent oblique spots, ventral margin of pygofer with protrusion.......... 8 Outer margin of forewing with yellow oblique spot, dorsal margin of pygofer with tiny spines...................... M. lii
8. Style bifurcate at terminal part, aedeagus branched at base, subterminal branches bifurcate into two lamellar processes............................................................................................... M. albinotata Style acute at terminal part, aedeagus branched near midlength, branching tip trumpet-shaped.................. M. nigra
9. Forewing clavus with white spots at commissural margin..................................................... 10 Forewing yellow or claval area yellow....................................................................11
10. Pygofer protrusion spine-like in lateral view, aedeagus branch tips hook-like and pointing towards each other.................................................................................................. M. creagra sp.nov. Pygofer protrusion fork-like in lateral view, aedeagus branch tips foot-like, with short median heel and longer lateral toe.............................................................................................. M. splendida
11. Forewing clavus yellow, remainder mostly black; ventral margin of pygofer with pair of small projections.............. 12 Forewing almost entirely yellow; ventral margin of pygofer with pair of long protrusions pointing to the base. M. hainanensis
12. Aedeagus broadly flattened at the base, branching tips curved dorsolaterad, terminal part of each branch acute, base of branch with pair of long spikes......................................................................... M. flavida Aedeagus narrow and thin, aedeagus branch wide to sides and flared, end bifurcated........................ M. maculata
description: Published as part of Zhao, Yong-Tao, Luo, Qiang, Yang, Lin & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2024, Review of bamboo-feeding leafhoppers of the genus Mukaria (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) in China, with description two new species, pp. 259-270 in Zootaxa 5474 (3) on page 260, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5474.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/12567715