Neobelocera
Creators: name: Hou, Xiao-Hui
name: Chen, Xiang-Sheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Delphacidae
Neobelocera

description: Key to known species of Neobelocera
1. Frons with pale transverse stripe below level of lower margin of eyes (Figs 3, 18; Ding et al. 1986: Fig. 6: 2; Ding 2006: Fig. 98: B) .......................................................................................................................................................... 2
- Frons without pale transverse stripe (Fig. 10; Zhu 1988: Fig. 2; Ding 2006: Fig. 99: B, Fig. 100: B; Qin & Yuan 1998: Fig. 1: B) ............................................................................................................................................................. 3
2(1) Frons without dark transverse stripes, genae without light brown spots (Fig. 3); pygofer with medioventral processes, median one short and tapering, lateral ones slender, long (Figs 4, 5); aedeagus as thick as process of phallobase, aedeagus with node and 4 long processes at apex (Fig. 7); genital styles without process, tapering apically (Fig. 8) .......................................................................................................................................... N. lanpingensis Chen
- Frons with some short, dark transverse stripes along inner margin of lateral carina, genae with 2–3 light brown spots (Ding et al. 1986: Fig. 6: 2; Ding 2006: Fig. 98: B); pygofer without medioventral process (Ding et al. 1986: Fig. 6: 3, 7; Ding 2006: Fig. 98: C, G); aedeagus markedly thicker than process of phallobase, apex of aedeagus rounded, without process (Ding et al. 1986: Fig. 6: 4; Ding 2006: Fig. 98: D); genital styles stick-shape, apical part rounded, with a nipple-like process at subapical 1/3 (Ding et al. 1986: Fig. 6: 5; Ding 2006: Fig. 98: E) .................................. ......................................................................................................................................... N. asymmetrica Ding & Yang
3(1) Ventral margin of pygofer without any process (Qin & Yuan 1998: Fig. 1: D; Ding 2006: Fig. 100: C, G).............. 4
- Ventral margin of pygofer with 2 lateral processes (Figs 12, 23, 24) .......................................................................... 5
4(3) Frons longer at midline than wide at widest part, ratio about 1.8:1; aedeagus slender, long, compressed, not forked at apex (Qin & Yuan 1998: Fig. 1: C, E); genital styles broad, with branch-like processes near apex (Qin & Yuan 1998: Fig. 1: C, F, G) ................................................................................................................. N. hanyinensis Qing & Yuan
- Frons longer at midline than wide at widest part, ratio about 1.6:1; aedeagus compressed, forked at apex (Ding 2006: Fig. 100: E); genital styles slender, without branch-like processes (Ding 2006: Fig. 100: I) .... N. zhejiangensis (Zhu)
5(3) Ventral margin of anal segment without process (Fig. 12); pygofer with 2 slender, long, lateral processes (Fig.12); process of phallobase absent (Fig. 14); genital styles with a long process subapically (Figs 15, 16) ........................... ........................................................................................................................................ N. laterospina Chen & Liang
- Ventral margin of anal segment with a short, stout process medially (Figs 20, 21, 24); pygofer with 2 small, stout, lateral processes (Figs 23, 24); processes of phallobase developed (Figs 25, 26) .................................... N. lii sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Hou, Xiao-Hui & Chen, Xiang-Sheng, 2010, Review of the Oriental bamboo delphacid genus Neobelocera Ding & Ya n g (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Delphacidae) with the description of one new species, pp. 39-50 in Zootaxa 2387 on page 42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.275835