Deferunda
Creators: name: Chen, Xiang-Sheng
name: He, Ting-Ting
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2010
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Achilidae
Deferunda

description: Key to species of the genus Deferunda of the world
1 Frons centrally with a conversed V-shaped dark marking (Fig. 2) .......................................................................... 2
- Frons without any dark marking (Fig. 14) ............................................................................................................... 8
2(1) Hind tibiae without lateral spine (Distant 1912) ..................................................................... D. stigmatica Distant
- Hind tibiae with a lateral spine at middle near to base ............................................................................................. 3
3(2) Anterior margin of vertex truncate (Chen et al., 1989: Fig. 28: A); apical third of forewing without milky-white spots (Chen et al., 1989: Fig. 28: D) ................................................................... D. truncata Chen, Yang & Wilson
- Anterior margin of vertex acute (Fig. 1); apical third of forewing with milky-white spots (Fig. 3)....................... 4
4(3) Vertex subequal to pronotum in middle line (Melichar 1914) ........................................... D. philippina (Melichar)
- Vertex distinctly longer than pronotum in middle line (Fig. 1) ............................................................................... 5
5(4) Lateral margins of frons without narrow dark stripes (Fig. 2)....................................................... D. diana sp. nov.
- Lateral margins of frons with several narrow dark stripes (Matsumura 1914: Fig. 5: b; Chou & Wang 1985: Fig. 28: b; Chen et al. 1989: Fig. 27: B) ........................................................................................................................ 6
6(5) Vertex relatively short, as long in middle line as broad at base, median carina bordered with short longitudinal black stripes apically (Matsumura 1914) ............................................................................ D. lineola (Matsumura)
- Vertex relatively long, longer in median line than broad at base, median carina bordered with longitudinal dark stripes from apex to base (Matsumura 1914: Fig. 5: a; Chou & Wang 1985: Fig. 28: a; Chen et al. 1989: Fig. 27: A) ............................................................................................................................................................................. 7
7(6) Forewing with Cu1a deeply convex distad of clavus, reaching M (Chen et al. 1989: Fig. 27: D) ............................ ....................................................................................................................................... D. rubrostigma Matsumura
- Forewing with Cu1a straight or slightly convex distad of clavus, not reaching M (Figs 3, 15; Chou & Wang 1985: Fig. 28: a) .................................................................................................................... D. acuminata Chou & Wang
8(1) Forewing with irregular yellowish brown transverse markings (Wang et al. 2008: Figs 10, 20, 21) ........................ ................................................................................................................................................ D. striata Wang & Liu
- Forewing without above markings (Figs 3, 15; Wang et al. 2008: Figs 2, 18) ........................................................ 9
9(8) Lateral margins of frons with five narrow dark brown stripes (Wang et al. 2008: Fig. 1); forewing with costal margin red, apical region having three red triangular markings (Wang et al. 2008: Figs 2, 18) ..................................... ..................................................................................................................................... D. trimaculata Wang & Peng
- Lateral margins of frons without above stripes (Fig. 14); forwing without above marking (Figs 3, 15) .............. 10
10(9) Apex of clavus sanguineous with a large bluish-black spot; base of first apical cell sanguineous (Kirkaldy 1906) ................................................................................................................................................. D. majella (Kirkaldy)
- Forewing not as above ............................................................................................................................................ 11
11(10) Body relatively small, body length including forewing 3 4.5mm, Ƥ 4.7mm; pygofer with mediaoventral processes diverging apically (Dlabola 1961: Fig. 32) .................................................................... D. incompta Dlabola
- Body relatively large, body length including forewing 3 5.10-5.35mm, Ƥ 5.50-5.70 mm; pygofer with mediaoventral processes parallel apically (Fig. 18) ...................................................................................................... 12
12(11) Vertex with median carina bordered with dark brown stripes at apex (Fig. 13); frons and basal half of clypeus yellowish white (Fig. 14); gena with a dark brown spot near beneath antenna; hind tibiae with a brown marking apically; genital style in lateral view with two processes on outer margin apically and subapically (Fig. 20)............... ....................................................................................................................................................... D. qiana sp. nov.
- Vertex with median carina bordered with longitudinal dark brown stripes from apex to base (Muir 1922); frons light brown, clypeus dark brown (Muir 1922); gena without dark brown spot; hind tibiae with two brown mark-
description: Published as part of Chen, Xiang-Sheng & He, Ting-Ting, 2010, Two new species of genus Deferunda Distant (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Achilidae) from southwest China, pp. 59-68 in Zootaxa 2335 on page 61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.193169