Empoascanara Distant 1918
Creators: name: SONG, YUE-HUA
name: LI, ZI-ZHONG
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Empoascanara

description: Key to males of Empoascanara from China   
1 Aedeagal shaft without processes........................................................................ 2  
– Aedeagal shaft with processes........................................................................... 5  
2 Aedeagus dorsal apodeme large, expanded................................................................. 3  
 – Aedeagus dorsal apodeme small, indistinct........................................................... E. alami   
 3 Gonopore apical............................................................................... E. sonani   
– Gonopore subapical or median........................................................................... 4  
 4 Aedeagal shaft with apex broad; gonopore subapical.................................................... E. lata   
 – Aedeagal shaft with apex narrow; gonopore median................................................ E. kotoshonis   
5 Aedeagus with basal atrial processes...................................................................... 6  
– Aedeagus without basal atrial processes.................................................................. 12  
6 Aedeagal shaft with apex bifurcate...................................................................... 7  
– Aedeagal shaft with apex not bifurcate.................................................................... 8  
 7 Basal atrial processes of aedeagus bifurcate.......................................................... E. penta   
 – Basal atrial processes of aedeagus not bifurcate..................................................... E. limbata   
8 Aedeagal shaft short and preatrium long................................................................... 9  
– Aedeagal shaft long and preatrium short.................................................................. 11  
 9 Basal atrial processes of aedeagus with lateral margin serrate apically.................................................................................................................................... E. circumscripta   
– Basal atrial processes of aedeagus with lateral margin smooth apically.......................................... 10  
 10 Pygofer dorsal appendage expanded at base, then narrowed abruptly and bifurcate at apex............ E. nigrobimaculata   
 – Pygofer dorsal appendage broad and short, nearly equal to width and bifurcate at apex........................ E. sipra   
 11 Gonopore apical on ventral surface....................................................... E. conchata sp. nov.   
 – Gonopore sub-basal on ventral surface............................................................... E. mai   
12 Aedeagal shaft with paired apical processes............................................................... 13  
– Aedeagal shaft with unpaired apical processes............................................................. 14  
 13 Gonopore at apex............................................................................. E. dwalata   
 – Gonopore at sub-apex............................................................................ E. mana   
 14 Pygofer dorsal appendage not branched apically.......................................... E. longiaedeaga sp. nov.   
– Pygofer dorsal appendage branched apically............................................................... 15  
 15 Apical processes of aedeagal shaft lamella-like...................................................... E. fumigata   
– Apical processes of aedeagal shaft band-like............................................................... 16  
 16 Aedeagal shaft with 3 asymmetrical apical processes............................................. E. hongkongica   
 – Aedeagal shaft with 2 asymmetrical apical processes.............................................. E. maculifrons
description: Published as part of SONG, YUE-HUA & LI, ZI-ZHONG, 2013, Two new species of Empoascanara Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from Yunnan Province, China, pp. 89-93 in Zootaxa 3637 (1) on page 90, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3637.1.11, http://zenodo.org/record/10097711