Pediopsoides
Creators: name: Yang, Liyuan
name: Zhang, Yalin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Pediopsoides

description: Key to males of species of the genus Pediopsoides from China
1. Body form resembles Oncopsis, elongate................................................................... 2
- Body form resembles Pedionis, short and stout.............................................................. 5
2. Face marked with black spots; pygofer with one process at caudoventral margin.............. P. (S.) kurentsovi (Anufriev)
- Face unmarked with spots or with small punctations; pygofer with several processes or teeth at caudoventral margin....... 3
3. Pygofer with several small teeth at caudoventral margin.................................. P. (S.) dilatus Dai & Zhang
- Pygofer with several distinct processes at caudoventral margin.................................................. 4
4. Pygofer with three or four processes subequal in length ranked regularly at caudoventral margin; aedeagal shaft with pair of ventral processes at apex.............................................................. P. (S.) aomians (Kuoh)
- Pygofer with one long and three short processes ranked irregularly at caudoventral margin; aedeagal shaft without ventral pro- cesses at apex............................................................ P. (S.) heterodigitatus Dai & Zhang
5. Dorsal connective fused to tenth tergite.................................................................... 6
- Dorsal connective freely articulated against tenth tergite...................................................... 10
6. Male pygofer process with 2 or 3 stout spines............................................................... 7
- Male pygofer process with trifurcated apex................................................................. 8
7. Gonopore subapical, shaft surrounded by distinctly serrate margin............................ P. (C.) membrana Zhang
- Gonopore apical, shaft with two pairs of lamellate processes.............................. P. (C.) undata Li, Dai & Li
8. Aedeagal shaft slender, with one pair of processes..................................... P. (C.) trifurcata Li, Dai & Li
- Aedeagal shaft robust, with two pairs of processes........................................................... 9
9. Aedeagal shaft with fingerlike apical processes and pair of asymmetrical serrate preapical longitudinal flanges........................................................................................ P. (C.) montaninversa sp. nov.
- Aedeagal shaft with sinuated processes at midlength and around gonopore................. P. (C.) rhombica Li, Dai & Li
10. Aedeagal shaft without processes or spines................................................................ 11
- Aedeagal shaft with paired symmetrical processes........................................................... 15
11. Pygofer broad, ventral margin with relatively obvious processes................................................ 12
- Pygofer broad, ventral margin without obvious process....................................................... 14
12. Style with subapical toothlike process............................................ P. (P.) tishetshkini Li, Dai & Li
- Style without subapical toothlike process.................................................................. 13
13. Pygofer ventral margin with long dichotomous or trichotomous process, apex of aedeagal shaft lobe-shaped.......................................................................................... P. (P.) nigrolabium Li, Dai & Li
- Pygofer ventral margin with unbranched slender process, apex of aedeagal shaft evenly tapered... P. (P.) anchorides sp. nov.
14. Aedeagus in lateral view with apex truncate, in ventral view broad basally, widened subapically............................................................................................... P. (P.) damingshanensis Li, Dai & Li
- Aedeagus in lateral view with tapering apex, in ventral view broader basally, shaft tapering..... P. (P.) bispinata Li, Dai & Li
15. Aedeagal shaft with paired symmetrical processes apically................................ P. (P.) jingdongensis Zhang
- Aedeagal shaft with paired symmetrical processes subapically............................. P. (P.) femorata (Hamilton) Pediopsoides (Celopsis) montaninversa sp. nov. (Figs. 1 A–D, 2A–H)
description: Published as part of Yang, Liyuan & Zhang, Yalin, 2013, Leafhopper genus Pediopsoides Matsumura (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Macropsinae), with descriptions of two new species from China, pp. 583-590 in Zootaxa 3734 (5) on pages 584-585, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3734.5.7, http://zenodo.org/record/221308