Exphora
Creators: name: Junkiert, Łukasz
name: Walczak, Marcin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Tropiduchidae
Exphora

description: Key to species of Exphora
1. Metope long, 2.5 times as long as wide........................................................ E. longipennata
- Metope less than 2 times as long as wide...................................................................2.
2. Metope distinctly enlarged over clypeus at almost right angle, with 2 rows of black spots (between keels)..... E. fumivenosa
- Metope enlarged over clypeus with board obtuse, without black spots............................................ 3
3. Body greenish, fore wing with 15 apical cells....................................................... E. succinae
- Body yellowish-brown, fore wing with 18–19 apical cells...................................................... 4
4. Fore wing with dark brown transvers veins...................................................... E. perinetensis
- Fore wings uniformly coloured, without darker veins......................................................... 5
5. Apical part of aedeagus without long needle-like processes. Aedeagal processes obtuse curved or almost stright and prolonged.................................................................................................... 6
- Apical part of aedeagus with long needle-like processes directed dorsally.........................................7
6. Apical processes of aedeagus well developed, falcate, with denticles directed to each other...........................8
- Apical processes of aedeagus without denticles directed to each other. Aedeagus long and thin or wide and robust....... 10
7. Anal column short, placed in basal part of anal tube.................................................... E. similis
- Anal column long, placed in apical part of anal tube................................................. E. succinae
8. Apical process of aedeagus twice longer than subapical....................................................... 9
- Apical process of aedeagus as long as subapical...................................................... E. guerini
9. Aedeagus with 2 distinct bulges dorsally, ventral process weekly developed......................... E. constanti sp. n.
- Aedeagus without bulges, ventral process bird-head shaped...................................... E. stroinskii sp. n.
10. Aedeagus comparatively short, robust; apical margin of anal tube with deep incision..................... E. ifanadiensis
- Aedeagus very long; anal tube twice longer than wide with apical margin almost stright............................ 11
11. Aedeagal processes with abundant small denticles....................................... E. ambatolaonaensis sp. n.
- Aedeagal processes without small denticles...................................................... E. perinetensis
description: Published as part of Junkiert, Łukasz & Walczak, Marcin, 2015, Three new species of the genus Exphora Signoret, 1860 (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Tropiduchidae) from Madagascar, pp. 129-136 in Zootaxa 3926 (1) on page 130, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.1.7, http://zenodo.org/record/235518