Microsargane
Creators: name: Andrew Hamilton, K. G.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphrophoridae
Microsargane

description: Key to species of Microsargane (* male unknown)
1. Head with paired dark lines traversing ocelli (Figs 9 H–K); male theca with strongly curving spines arising from a flat basal plate (Figs 55 A–C)............................................ ….. Microrhaphe subg. nov. ... M. martialis sp.nov.
- Head dark (Figs 9 A–G), or with pale margins (Fig. 1 A); male theca with laterally compressed shaft and nearly straight proc- esses (Figs 56–58 B–C)................................................................................ 2
2. Tegmina dark brown to reddish; male theca with 3–5 pairs of slender processes (Figs 56–58 B–C).................................................................................................... Microtholia subg. nov. ...10
- Tegmina with red patch across anteapical cells (Fig. 1 A); male theca with 1 pair of branching, serrate processes (Figs 50–54 C).................................................................................. nominate subgenus...3
3. Head dark (pronotum and tegmina may have pale areas)...................................................... 7
- Head marked with yellow spots or bands along margins (Fig. 1 A)............................................... 4
4. Crown with yellow spots before eyes, paler than orange bands along margins of pronotum; Paraguay............................................................................................... * insignis (Melichar), comb.nov.
- Crown with yellow marginal bands extending across eyes to margins of pronotum (Fig. 1 A); Ecuador north to Central America................................................................................................... 5
5. Red patch on tegmen narrow; male thecal processes with furcate processes subequal (Fig.52 C); style tip truncate with strongly projecting setae (Fig. 52 E)........................................................... ornatipennis Lallemand
- Red patch on tegmen broad (Fig. 1 A); male thecal processes unequal, outer branch less than half length of inner branch (Fig. 54 C); style tip pointed, scarcely exceeded by apical setae (Fig. 54 E)............................................ 6
6. Transverse arm of theca expanded at base, serrate (Fig. 54 C)....................................... cristata sp.nov.
- Transverse arm of theca straight, parallel-margined, smooth (Fig. 50 C)................................. vittata Fowler
7. Head as wide as pronotum; crown as long as midline of pronotum................................. splendida sp.nov.
- Head narrower than pronotum; crown shorter than midline of pronotum.......................................... 8
8. Pale spots at apex of tegmen forming narrow lines directed towards tip of red spot...................* procera Lallemand
- Large pale spot on costa in addition to 2 pale lines on dark wing tip, the latter remote from transverse red streak.......... 9
9. Male thecal processes longer than half length of shaft (Fig. 53 C)................................... mutans (Walker)
- Male thecal processes shorter than half length of shaft (Fig. 51 C)................................... apicata sp.nov.
10. Chocolate brown to reddish, with 5 yellow lines (Figs 9 F–G)...................................... habrotes sp.nov.
- Blackish brown with not more than 3 yellow lines (Figs 9 A–E)................................................ 11
11. Crown as long as pronotum (Fig. 9 E).......................................................... sobria sp.nov.
- Crown half as long as midline of pronotum (Figs 9 A–D)..................................................... 12
12. Dark brown except for faint streak on pronotum and 2 small, pale spots on tegmen (Fig. 9 D); length 12 mm ...................................................................................................* bipunctura sp.nov.
- With more extensive pale markings, especially on venter; length 6.5–8.5 mm ..................................... 13
13. Entirely brown except for reddish veins and small costal spot (Fig. 9 A).................................. ios sp.nov.
- Brown, dorsum with pale streaks and spots (Figs 9 B–C)........................................ karykroua sp.nov.
description: Published as part of Andrew Hamilton, K. G., 2016, Neotropical spittlebugs related to Neaenini (Hemiptera, Cercopidae) and the origins of subfamily Cercopinae, pp. 201-250 in Zootaxa 4169 (2) on page 212, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4169.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/262585