Monecphora
Creators: name: Carvalho, Gervásio Silva
name: Sakakibara, Albino Morimasa
name: Webb, Michael D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cercopidae
Monecphora

description: Key to species of Monecphora
1. Forewing unicolorous or with a distal spot or transverse band................................................... 5
1’. Forewing with one or two longitudinal bands................................................................ 2
2(1’). Pronotum completely dark-brown; forewing with a yellow longitudinal band from clavus base up to last fourth of corium (Fig. 17)......................................................................................... M. sipolisi
2’. Pronotum not dark-brown............................................................................... 3
3(2’). Forewing with basal half of clavus and a longitudinal band in corium gradually narrowing towards apex, pale ochraceous (Fig. 9)............................................................................................. M. fryi
3’. Forewing with longitudinal band of corium not narrowing towards apex.......................................... 4
4(3’). Pronotum light brown with a longitudinal medial band and another band on latero-anterior margin, ocher-yellow; forewing with costal margin with a band along anterior half and a large quadrate macula opposite to tip of clavus, ocher-yellow.................................................................................................. M. opulenta
4’. Pronotum ocher-yellow with a transverse median stripe and the posterior margin, dark-brown; forewing with a longitudinal ocher-yellow band at middle of corium not reaching tip (Fig. 18)................................... M. longitudinalis
5(1). Forewing unicolorous, opaque basally, becoming transparent distally (Fig. 19).............................. M. pallida
5’. Forewing not unicolorous............................................................................... 6
6(5’). Forewing with a narrow transverse band at level of scutellum tip (Fig. 7)................................ M. cingulata
6’. Forewing without narrow transverse band at level of scutellum tip............................................... 7
7(6’). Forewing broadly marked with brown distally............................................................... 8
7’. Forewing translucent grey with a brown spot distally (Fig. 15)........................................ M. nigritarsis
8(7). Forewing with distal 4/5 of corium dark-brown (Fig. 16)............................................. M. semilutea
8’. Forewing with distal one or two-thirds of corium brown....................................................... 9
9(8’). Pronotum with paired thick brown longitudinal bands (Figs 1–2).............................. M. broomfieldi sp. nov.
9’. Pronotum without longitudinal brown bands, may have transverse band.......................................... 10
10(9’). Forewing with distal two-thirds of corium light-brown and proximal third yellow (Fig. 10).......... M. machadoi sp. nov.
10’. Forewing with distal third of corium dark-brown and proximal two-thirds ochraceous (Fig. 20)............ M. nigroapicata
description: Published as part of Carvalho, Gervásio Silva, Sakakibara, Albino Morimasa & Webb, Michael D., 2016, Two new species of the Neotropical spittlebug genus Monecphora Amyot & Serville (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) with key and notes of species of the genus, pp. 143-152 in Zootaxa 4078 (1) on page 144, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4078.1.13, http://zenodo.org/record/255186