Kapsa (Rigida) Cao & Zhang
Creators: name: Yang, Meixia
name: Cao, Yanghui
name: Zhang, Yalin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Kapsa

description: Key to males of Kapsa (Rigida) Cao & Zhang sgen. n.
1. Anal tube appendage rudimentary, small, not hooked at apex...................... K. apicispina Yang & Zhang sp. nov.
- Anal tube appendage well developed, hooked apically (Figs 5 b, 6b, 8b, 9b, 10e, 11c, 12c, 13c)........................ 2
2. Anal tube appendage curved cephalad in larteral view................................ K. maculata Sohi & Mann, 1992
- Anal tube appendage curved caudad in lateral view (Figs 5 b, 6b, 8b, 9b, 10e, 11c, 12c, 13c)........................... 3
3. Aedeagus without ventral process near base of shaft (Figs 5 h, 6g, 11i, 13g)........................................ 4
- Aedeagus with unpaired ventral process near base of shaft (Figs 8 h, 9g, 10j, 12i)................................... 7
4. Aedeagal shaft with ventral process near apex (Figs 6 g, 13g)................................................... 5
- Aedeagal shaft without process (Figs 5 h, 11i)............................................................... 6
5. Paramere forked apically, with apical and basal branch, aedeagal shaft with small thornlike process ventro-apically (Fig. 6 e, g)...................................................................... K. aculeiformis Cao & Zhang sp. nov.
- Paramere bifurcated apically, with dorsal and ventral branch, aedeagal shaft with large serrated protrusion ventro-medially (Fig. 13 e, g)................................................................ K. serrata Cao & Zhang sp. nov.
6. Apex of paramere straight, aedeagal shaft expanded in lateral view (Fig. 11 f, i)......... K. imminuta Yang & Zhang sp. nov.
- Apex of paramere sinuate, aedeagal shaft not expanded in lateral view (Figs 5 e, f, h).......... K. alba Dworakowska, 1981
7. Ventral process not extended to midlength of aedeagal shaft (Figs 8 h, 9g)......................................... 8
- Ventral process surpassing midlength of aedeagal shaft (Figs 10 j, 12i)........................................... 10
8. Paramere footlike apically, heel expanded, ventral processes of aedeagus rounded in lateral view (Fig. 9 e, g)...................................................................................... K. explanata Cao & Zhang sp. nov.
- Paramere with second extension apically, ventral processes of aedeagus pointed in lateral view (Fig. 8 h, i)............... 9
9. Aedeagal shaft expanded in lateral view, almost straight............................... K. minuta Dworakowska, 1994
- Aedeagal shaft not expanded in lateral view, obviously curved ventrad (Fig. 8 h)........... K. brevis Cao & Zhang sp. nov.
10. Ventral process of aedeagus with broadened and concave apex in caudal view....... K. borealis Dworakowska & Sohi, 1978
- Ventral process of aedeagus pointed apically in caudal view (Figs 10 k, 12j)....................................... 11
11. Paramere forked apically (Fig. 10 h).............................................. K. furcata Cao & Zhang sp. nov.
- Paramere not forked apically (Fig. 12 g)................................................................... 12
12. Aedeagus with base of ventral process broader than that of shaft in lateral view (Fig. 12 i).................................................................................................. K. megaprocessa Cao & Zhang sp. nov.
- Aedeagus with base of ventral process slightly narrower than that of shaft in lateral view......................................................................................... K. simlensis Dworakowska, Nagaich & Singh, 1978
description: Published as part of Yang, Meixia, Cao, Yanghui & Zhang, Yalin, 2013, Taxonomic study of the genus Kapsa Dworakowska with a new subgenus, and new combinations and records for Tautoneura Anufriev (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae: Erythroneurini), pp. 117-142 in Zootaxa 3630 (1) on page 128, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3630.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/222870