Idona
Creators: name: Pinedo-Escatel, J. A.
name: Blanco-Rodríguez, E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Idona

description: Key to Mexican species of Idona (males)
1 Aedeagus without basal processes (Ruppel & DeLong 1952, fig. 4).................. eborolora Ruppel & DeLong 1952
- Aedeagus with basal processes...........................................................................2
2 Aedeagal shaft with posterior margin arcuate and distant from base of basal processes; atrium large (Ruppel & DeLong 1952, fig. 6)................................................................... .. ferrugina Ruppel & DeLong 1952
- Aedeagal shaft curved dorsal and close to base of basal processes; atrium short.................................... 3
3 Aedeagal shaft very broad in lateral view through most of length with thin, arcuate apical extension (Ruppel & DeLong 1952, fig. 7)..................................................................... reflexa Ruppel & DeLong 1952
- Aedeagal shaft relatively narrow and without thin arcuate apical extension........................................4
4 Pygofer without apical hooks............................................................................ 5
- Pygofer with apical hooks (Figs. 1 and 13)..................................................................6
5 Aedeagal shaft in lateral view more than 3 times longer than wide; processes not twisted (Ruppel & DeLong 1952, fig. 1)................................................................................ usitata Ruppel & DeLong 1952
- Aedeagal shaft in lateral view less than 2 times longer than wide; processes with apices broad, twisted (Ruppel & DeLong 1952, fig. 5)............................................................... parallela Ruppel & DeLong 1952
6 Aedeagus in lateral view with posterior margin between shaft and basal processes either very narrow or linear, not angulate (Fig. 6, and Ruppel & DeLong 1952, fig. 3)................................................................7
- Aedeagus in lateral view with posterior margin between basal processes and shaft broad and distinctly angulate (Ruppel & DeLong 1952, fig. 2)......................................................... biforma Ruppel & DeLong 1952
7 Aedeagus without posterior process arising near shaft midlength (Fig. 14)........................................ 8
- Aedeagus with posterior process arising near shaft midlength (Fig. 6).................................................................................................... .. dmitrievi Pinedo-Escatel & Blanco-Rodríguez, sp. nov.
8 Body length> 3 mm; pygofer apex falcate, process elongate (Ruppel & DeLong 1952, fig. 3).................................................................................................... gigantica Ruppel & DeLong 1952
- Body length <3 mm; pygofer apex rounded, process short (Fig. 14, and Young 1952, fig. 59)........ minuenda (Ball 1921)
description: Published as part of Pinedo-Escatel, J. A. & Blanco-Rodríguez, E., 2016, A new species of Idona DeLong (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from Mexico, with an annotated list of species, pp. 320-330 in Zootaxa 4114 (3) on page 325, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/265584