Bhatia
Creators: name: Lu, Lin
name: Zhang, Yalin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Bhatia

description: Key to species of Bhatia (males) (B. lituriceps, known only from female, excluded)
1. Vertex shorter medially than next to eyes (Zhang & Webb 1996, Figs. 485, 486, 489)................................ 2
- Vertex slightly longer medially than next to eyes (Zhang & Webb 1996, Figs. 483–484).............................. 5
2. Style with apical process greatly expanded (Zhang & Webb 1996, Figs. 135)................................ B. javana
- Style with apical process slightly expanded or hook-like....................................................... 3
3. Aedeagus with shaft lateral serrations (Viraktamath & Murthy 2009, Fig. 24)............................... B. serrata
- Aedeagus with shaft smooth............................................................................. 4
4. Style with apical process truncate apically; aedeagal shaft C-shaped curved dorsally; gonopore apical (Zhang & Webb 1996, Figs. 121, 124).............................................................................. B. guamensis
- Style with apical process hook-like; aedeagal shaft strongly curved to a right angle dorsally; gonopore subapical on ventral sur- face (Zhang & Webb 1996, Figs. 118, 120)......................................................... B. metcalfi
5. Pygofer with an internal posterior ledge (Zhang & Webb 1996, Fig. 105).......................................... 6
- Pygofer without internal posterior ledge (Zhang & Webb 1996, Fig. 139)......................................... 8
6. Aedeagal basal processes smooth, without areoles or sinuate ridges (Zhang & Webb 1996, Figs. 111, 131)............... 7
- Aaedeagal basal processes areolate or with sinuate ridges (Zhang & Webb 1996, Figs. 114–115)..................................................................................................................... B. distanti
7. With additional sclerite between connective and aedeagus (Zhang & Webb 1996, Fig. 129)................ B. satsumensis
- Without sclerite between connective and aedeagus (Zhang & Webb 1996, Fig. 110)......................... B. olivacea
8. Aedeagal dorsal apodeme with lateral serrate processes (Viraktamath & Murthy 2009, Fig. 9)............. B. radhamaniae
- Aedeagal dorsal apodeme without lateral processes.......................................................... 9
9. Aedeagus without pair of basal processes (Shang et al. 2006, Fig. 50)................................... B. unicornis
- Aedeagus with one or two pair of basal processes........................................................... 10
10. Aedeagus with one pair of basal processes (Shang et al. 2006, Figs. 15, 17, 21, 23)................................. 11
- Aedeagus with two pairs of basal processes (Figs. 1G–H)..................................................... 14
11. Aedeagus with shaft short and robust (Shang et al. 2006, Fig. 31).............................................. 12
- Aedeagus with shaft elongate (Shang et al. 2006, Figs. 15, 21)................................................. 13
12. Aedeagal shaft with apical process sagittate; style with apical process bilobed (Cai & Shen 1999, Figs. 3E–G).... B. sagittata
- Aedeagal shaft with apex globular bearing some spines; style with apical process hook-like (Shang et al. 2006, Figs. 27, 30)............................................................................................. B. digitata
13. Style with rectangular preapical lobe (Shang et al. 2006, Fig. 16)........................................ B. koreana
- Style without preapical lobe (Shang et al. 2006, Fig. 20)................................................ B. hastata
14. Aedeagus with two pairs of basal processes and one unpaired process (paraphysis) between the connective and aedeagus (Figs. 1E, I)............................................................................ B. multispinosa sp. nov.
- Aedeagus with only two pairs of basal processes, without paraphysis............................................ 15
15. Style with apical extension beyond laterally directed apical process (Zhang & Zhang 1998, Fig.1; Shang et al. 2006, Fig. 3)........................................................................................... B. biconjugara
- Style without apical extension beyond laterally directed apical process (Shang et al. 2006, Fig. 44)........ B. quadrispinosa
description: Published as part of Lu, Lin & Zhang, Yalin, 2015, A new species of the leafhopper genus Bhatia Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae) from China, pp. 145-150 in Zootaxa 3911 (1) on pages 147-148, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3911.1.10, http://zenodo.org/record/235649