Sophonia Walker
Creators: name: Gou, Guangli
name: Xing, Jichun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Sophonia

description: Key to Chinese species (males) of Sophonia (Modified from Li et al., 2020)
1. Anterior margin of crown with a black spot (Figs 17,21,29,30,35,36,40,47)....................................... 2
Anterior margin of crown without black spot.............................................................. 10
2. Middle of body with pale longitudinal stripe (Fig. 17)................................................ S. adorana
Middle of body with black longitudinal stripe (Figs 30,35)..................................................... 3
3. Black longitudinal line of body in single line on crown (Fig. 35)................................................ 4
Black longitudinal line of body double or forked on crown (Figs 30,36).......................................... 5
4. Aedeagus with three pairs of processes (Li, Li & Xing, 2020: 426, Fig. 285c,d).......................... S. nigrilineata
Aedeagus with two pairs of processes (Li, Li & Xing, 2020: 440, Fig. 295b)............................. S. unilineata
5. Black longitudinal line of body double on crown (Fig. 30)......................................... S. longitudinalis
Black longitudinal line of body forked on crown (Figs 21,29,36,40,47)........................................... 6
6. Black longitudinal line of the pronotum and scutellum bordered with blood red (Fig. 36).................... · S. orientalis
Black longitudinal line of the pronotum and scutellum not bordered with blood red................................. 7
7. Body bright yellow (Fig. 40)................................................................... S. spathulata
Body pale yellow (Figs 21,29,47)....................................................................... ·8
8. End of male pygofer side without process (Li, Li & Xing, 2020: 443, Fig. 298a)............................. S. zhangi
End of male pygofer side with process................................................................... ·9
9. Aedeagal shaft tube-shaped, its end with a pair of long processes (Li, Li & Xing, 2020: 417, Fig. 279c,d)·....... S. hairlinea
Aedeagal shaft not tube-shaped, its end with a pair of short processes (Li, Li & Xing, 2020: 407, Fig. 271c,d)·... S. bilineara
10. Middle of dorsum with black longitudinal stripe (Fig. 27,31)·................................................. 11
Middle of dorsum without black longitudinal stripe......................................................... 12
11. Black longitudinal line of body irregular in width (Fig. 31)............................................ · S. lushana
Black longitudinal line of body uniform in width (Fig. 27)............................................... · S. flanka
12. Middle of body or crown with red longitudinal stripe (Figs 19,20,26,38)........................................ ·13
Middle of body or crown without red longitudinal stripe..................................................... 16
13. Middle of body with orange wide longitudinal stripe (Fig. 38).............................................. S. rufa
Middle of body with red thin longitudinal stripe (Fig. 20).................................................... 14
14. Aedeagus with four pairs of spine-shaped processes arising from atrium (Li, Li & Xing, 2020: 405, Fig. 270c,d)... S. arcuata
Aedeagus three or fewer pairs of processes arising from atrium............................................... 15
15. Aedeagal shaft with one pair of processes on atrium and two pairs at shaft apex (Li, Li & Xing, 2020: 404, Fig. 269c,d)............................................................................................. S. anushamata
Aedeagal shaft with three pairs of processes on atrium and unpaired ventral process near shaft base (Li, Li & Xing, 2020: 413, Fig. 276c,d)............................................................................... S. erythrolinea
16. Forewing caudal margin with a black round spot (Figs 24,32,34)............................................... 17
Forewing caudal margin without a black round spot (Figs 41,43)............................................... 32
17. Forewing inner margin orange (Fig. 24)......................................................... S. contrariesa
Forewing inner margin not orange....................................................................... 18
18. Black round spot of forewing caudal margin small (Fig. 32).......................................... S. microstaina
Black round spot of forewing caudal margin large.......................................................... 19
19. Face black (Fig. 34).......................................................................... S. nigrifrons Face not black....................................................................................... 20
20. Apex of forewing dark brown (Figs 28,33)................................................................ 21
End margin of forewing not dark....................................................................... 22
21. Pygofer side with ventral process (Fig. 33)...................................................... S. nigricostana
Pygofer side without ventral process (Fig. 28).................................................. S. fuscomarginata
22. Forewing with middle of inner margin with half-moon shaped marking (Fig. 46)........................ S. yunnanensis
Forewing with middle of inner margin without half-moon shaped marking (Figs 37,42)............................. 23
23. Longitudinal stripe of crown dark brown (Fig. 42)................................................... S. tortuosa
Longitudinal stripe of crown not dark brown (Fig. 37)....................................................... 24
24. Forewing yellow (Fig. 37)..................................................................... · S. pointeda
Forewing not yellow·................................................................................. 25
25. Aedeagus with more than 3 pairs of protrusions (Li, Li & Xing, 2020: 441, Fig. 296c, d; 402, Fig. 268c)............... 26
Aedeagus without 3 or fewer pairs of protrusions·.......................................................... 27
26. Base of aedeagus with a ventrally directed spine; atrium with two pairs of processes (Li, Li & Xing, 2020: 441, Fig. 296c, d)........................................................................................... S. yingjianga
Base of aedeagus without a ventral spine; atrium with one pair of processes (Li, Li & Xing, 2020: 402, Fig. 268c)·. S. albuma
27. Aedeagal atrium with a papilla-shaped or branch-shaped process (Li, Li & Xing, 2020: 408, Fig. 272c,d; 409, Fig. 273c,d) ·28
Aedeagal shaft without a papilla-shaped or branch-shaped process............................................. 29
28. Aedeagal shaft without ventral spine near base (Li, Li & Xing, 2020: 408, Fig. 272c,d)·.................... · S. biramosa
Aedeagal shaft with ventral spine near base (Li, Li & Xing, 2020: 409, Fig. 273c,d)...................... S. branchuma
29. Aedeagus with pair of long processes near midlength extended laterad; atrial arms of atrium each with two short distal projections (Figs 7,8,9)............................................................................. S. furcata sp. nov.
Aedeagus with medial processes of shaft absent or extended along shaft; atrial arms not as above.................... 30
30. Pygofer with a bent apical process (Li, Li & Xing, 2020: 412, Fig. 275a; 432, Fig. 289a)............................ 31
Pygofer with a straight apical process (Li, Li & Xing, 2020: 438, Fig. 294a)............................... S. unicolor
31. Anterior lateral edge of crown yellow (Fig. 25).................................................... · S. cyatheana
Anterior lateral edge of crown not yellow (Fig. 39)...................................................... S. rosae
32. Forewing with black transverse stripe near midlength (Fig. 43)....................................... S. transvittata
Forewing without black transverse stripe (Fig. 41).................................................... S. spinula
description: Published as part of Gou, Guangli & Xing, Jichun, 2024, Description of a new leafhopper species of the genus Sophonia Walker (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Evacanthinae) from China, pp. 411-421 in Zootaxa 5405 (3) on pages 413-414, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5405.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/10603554