Fistulatus
Creators: name: Hassan, Muhammad Asghar
name: Shah, Bismillah
name: Xing, Jichun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Fistulatus

description: Key to species (males) of Fistulatus (modified from Lu & Zhang, 2014)
1 Pygofer with two pairs of processes (Fig. 35)............................................................... 2
- Pygofer with one pair of processes (Fig. 6)................................................................. 5
2 Aedeagal shaft with one or more processes in distal half; pygofer processes extended mesad......................... 3
- Aedeagal shaft without processes in distal half (Figs 38–39); pygofer processes extended distad (Fig. 35)....... F. luteolus
3 Aedeagal shaft with pair of short, slender preapical processes (Figs 57–59)......................... F. quadrispinosus
- Aedeagal shaft with process or process flangelike............................................................ 4
4 Aedeagal shaft with a pair of short apical lateral processes (Figs 28–29); ventral process of pygofer side extended toward base (Fig. 25)................................................................................. F. biconjugara
- Aedeagal shaft with one dorsal preapical process (Figs 33–34); ventral process of pygofer extended toward apex (Fig. 30)........................................................................................ F. brevimarginalis
5 Aedeagal shaft with one pair of processes or flanges.......................................................... 6
- Aedeagal shaft with two pairs of processes (Fig. 24)................................................ F. bidentatus
6 Aedeagal shaft with spikelike lateral preapical processes (Figs 10–13)........................................... 7
- Aedeagal shaft not as above (Figs 17–18, 42–43, 48)......................................................... 8
7 Aedeagal shaft with hammer-shaped apex in lateral view (Fig. 12)............................. F. motuoensis sp. nov.
- Aedeagal shaft with somewhat digitate apex in lateral view (Fig. 54).................................... F. sinensis
8 Pygofer with processes directed medially (Fig. 45); aedeagus with shaft relatively straight in lateral view (Fig. 49).................................................................................................. F. rectilineus
- Pygofer with processes directed ventrally (Fig. 40); aedeagus with shaft curved dorsally in lateral view (Fig. 44).......... 9
9 Connective with lateral processes (Fig. 16); style with apical process slightly curved laterally, digitate (Fig. 15)... F. athena
- Connective without lateral processes; style with apical process strongly curved laterally, foot-like (Fig. 41)..................................................................................................... F. monkoboensis
description: Published as part of Hassan, Muhammad Asghar, Shah, Bismillah & Xing, Jichun, 2024, Key to species of the leafhopper genus Fistulatus Zhang, Zhang & Chen (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Drabescini) with description of a new species, pp. 363-372 in Zootaxa 5481 (3) on pages 364-365, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5481.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/12758855