Pedionis
Creators: name: Yang, Liyuan
name: Zhang, Yalin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Pedionis

description: Key to male species of the genus Pedionis from China
1. Dorsal connective elaborate, ribbon like....................................................................2
- Dorsal connective variously armed, shaped like “∏”.......................................................... 3
2. Pygofer caudal margin with several blunt teeth subdorsally.............................................. P. (P.) lii
- Pygofer caudal margin with some sharp spinae subdorsally......................................... P. (P.) sagittata
3. Aedeagal shaft with 1–2 paired processes................................................................... 4
- Aedeagal shaft without process.......................................................................... 16
4. Aedeagal shaft with 1 pair of processes.................................................................... 5
- Aedeagal shaft with 2 pairs of processes...................................................................9
5. Aedeagus with paired processes pointed laterally................................................ P. (P.) contrasta
- Paired aedeagal processes pointed dorsally................................................................. 6
6. Paired aedeagal processes small and apical.................................................................7
- Paired aedeagal processes broad and occupying nearly half of shaft.............................................. 8
7. Paired aedeagal processes with serrated margins.............................................. P. (P.) longiaxonica
- Paired aedeagal processes triangular with smooth margins........................................... P. (P.) stigma
8. Apex of aedeagus stout, paired processes with serrated margins.................................... P. (P.) clypellata
- Apex of aedeagus truncate, paired processes with acerate margins.................................... P. (P.) acerosa
9. Subapical pair of aedeagal processes close to apical ones..................................................... 10
- Subapical pair of aedeagal processes distant from apical ones.................................................. 12
10. Apical processes of aedeagus serrated, connected with subapical ones......................... P. (P.) nankunshanensis
- The apical processes of aedeagus small, not connected with subapical ones....................................... 11
11. Subapical processes of aedeagus narrow, digitiform............................................... P. (P.) yunnana
- Subapical processes broad, lamelliform........................................................ P. (P.) tabulatus
12. Pygophore without caudo-dorsal spine.................................................................... 13
- Pygophore with 1 or 3 caudo-dorsal spines................................................................14
13. Aedeagus broad basally in posterior view with shaft abruptly narrowed beyond base............ P. (P.) dentiforma sp. nov.
- Aedeagus narrow basally in posterior view with shaft evenly tapered through most of length................ P. (P.) spinata
14. Pygophore caudo-dorsal angle with 3 obtuse dendritic spines........................... P. (P.) tribrachyblasta sp. nov.
- Pygophore caudo-dorsal angle with 1 spine................................................................ 15
15. Pair of subapical processes perpendicular to the shaft, and have a large falcate medial process on the dorsal connective.......................................................................................... P. (P.) rufoscutallata
- Pair of processes ventrally directed, and lacks the falcate process on the dorsal connective....... P. (P.) dinghuensis sp. nov.
16. Apex of aedeagus in posterior view acute, lancelike............................................... P. (P.) mecota
- Apex of aedeagus in posterior view stout, rounded............................................... P. (P.) obtusata
description: Published as part of Yang, Liyuan & Zhang, Yalin, 2014, Three new species in the leafhopper genus Pedionis Hamilton (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Macropsinae) from China, with a key to Chinese species, pp. 587-595 in Zootaxa 3760 (4) on page 588, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3760.4.8, http://zenodo.org/record/225936