Busonia Distant
Creators: name: Xue, Qingquan
name: Zhang, Yalin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Busonia

description: Key to species of Busonia Distant (males)
(B. insularis Schmidt not included as males are not known)
1. Mesoscutum and scutellum brown or light brown, sometimes lateral margin yellowish (Fig. 2 G)....................... 2
- Mesoscutum brown, scutellum yellowish or light yellow (Fig. 1 K)...............................................6
2. Aedeagus with gonopore margins finely serrate (Fig. 5 E)........................................ B. serrata sp. nov.
- Aedeagus with gonopore margins not serrate................................................................ 3
3. Crown and most of pronotum yellowish or yellowish white; aedeagal shaft tapering apically in ventral view (Maldonado- Capriles, 1977: Fig. 21)...................................................... B. javanensis Maldonado-Capriles
- Crown ochraceous or brown; pronotum brownish, sometimes lateral margin yellowish (Fig. 2 C); aedeagal shaft not tapering apically (Fig. 4 F)...................................................................................... 4
4. Aedeagus with atrial region broad, extending to apex of aedeagus in lateral view (Maldonado-Capriles, 1977: Fig. 39).............................................................................. B. albilateralis Maldonado-Capriles
- Aedeagus with atrial region not extending to apex of aedeagus (Fig. 4 G)..........................................5
5. Aedeagus slightly compressed basally, dorsal margin straight with a smaller angular process in lateral view (Figs. 4 F–G)......................................................................................... B. micrata sp. nov.
- Aedeagus obviously compressed, dorsal margin concave (Maldonado-Capriles, 1977: Figs. 44–45)..................................................................................................... B. thai Maldonado-Capriles
6. Aedeagus lateral margin curved anteriorly, with median tooth (Figs. 3 D–E).......................... B. curvata sp. nov.
- Aedeagus lateral margin not curved anteriorly and without median tooth (Figs. 3 F–G)................................ 7
7. Apex of aedeagus pointed in lateral view (Maldonado-Capriles, 1977: Fig. 18)...................... B. scutellaris Baker
- Apex of aedeagus not pointed (Figs. 4 D–E)................................................................. 8
8. Aedeagus tapering apically in lateral view (Fig. 4 E)..........................................................9
- Aedeagus not tapering apically in lateral view (Fig. 3 G)......................................................10
9. Aedeagus dorsal margin smooth in lateral view (Maldonado-Capriles, 1977: Fig. 33)........ B. apicalis Maldonado-Capriles
- Aedeagus dorsal margin concave in lateral view (Fig. 4 E)........................................ B. lactata sp. nov.
10. Aedeagus broad subapically in lateral view (Maldonado-Capriles, 1977: Fig. 13).................... B. amentata Distant
- Aedeagus not broad anteriorly in lateral view (Fig. 3 G)....................................................... 11
11. Aedeagus broad medially, slender in basal half (Maldonado-Capriles, 1977: Figs. 25–26).... B. dorsalis Maldonado-Capriles
- Aedeagus broad and rounded in basal half (Fig. 3 F)............................................. B. fusca sp. nov.
description: Published as part of Xue, Qingquan & Zhang, Yalin, 2015, Five new species in the idiocerine genus Busonia Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Idiocerinae) from Thailand and Malaysia, with one new record from China, pp. 541-552 in Zootaxa 4021 (4) on page 543, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4021.4.4, http://zenodo.org/record/241680