Pediopsoides (Pediopsoides) Matsumura
Creators: name: Li, Hu
name: Dai, Ren-Huai
name: Li, Zi-Zhong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Pediopsoides

description: Key to species (³) of the subgenus Pediopsoides (Pediopsoides) Matsumura
P. (P.) formosanus (Matsumura) distributed in Taiwan, known only from the female, is excluded.
1. Clypellus black (Li et al. 2012: 536, Fig. 7)....................................... P. (P.) nigorolabium Li, Dai & Li
- Clypellus not black....................................................................................2
2. Aedeagal shaft with pair of processes...................................................................... 3
- Aedeagal shaft without pair of processes................................................................... 6
3. Shaft processes (Zhang 2010: 61, Figs 30–31) on apex of aedeagus, hooklike................. P. (P.) jingdongensis Zhang
- Shaft processes at base or middle of aedeagus, spinelike....................................................... 4
4. Shaft processes at base of aedeagus (Figs 16–17)................................... P. (P.) alba Li, Dai & Li sp. nov.
- Shaft processes at middle of aedeagus..................................................................... 5
5. Aedeagal shaft processes (Huang & Viraktamath 1993: 367, Fig. 28) pointed basally; dorsal connective (Huang & Viraktamath 1993: 367, Fig. 27) with apophysis twisted caudoventrally at middle........................ P. (P.) femorata (Hamilton)
- Aedeagal shaft processes (Viraktamath 1996: 188, Figs 32–33) pointed dorsally; dorsal connective (Viraktamath 1996: 188, Figs 34–35) without apophysis at middle............................................. P. (P.) kodaiana Viraktamath
6. Style with subapical toothlike process (Li et al. 2013: 20, Fig. 16); dorsal connective (Li et al. 2013: 20, Fig. 21) with furcated
process at middle, like species in genus Oncopsis .................................... P. (P.) tishetshkini Li, Dai & Li - Style without subapical toothlike process; dorsal connective without process, or with unbranched process at middle........ 7
7. Aedeagal shaft (Figs 24–25) slender, in ventral view apex strongly expanded laterally, lamelliform; pygofer ventral margin (Fig. 21) with 5 small teeth............................................... P. (P.) amplificata Li, Dai & Li sp. nov.
- Aedeagal shaft relatively stout, in ventral view apex not expanded laterally; pygofer ventral margin serrated, or with spines, or with wide process..................................................................................... 8
8. Pygofer ventral margin (Yang & Zhang 2013: 588, Figs 3 –A, 3–H) with single process widened at base and slanting inwards; apical half of aedeagal shaft (Yang & Zhang 2013: 588, Fig. 3 –E) strongly twisted dorsally, rectangular............................................................................................ P. (P.) anchorides Yang & Zhang
- Pygofer ventral margin serrated or with 2 small spines........................................................ 9
9. Dorsal connective (Fig. 31) with long process at middle twisted ventrally; apex of ventral margin of pygofer (Fig. 29) with 2– 3 small teeth....................................................... P. (P.) longiapophysis Li, Dai & Li sp. nov.
- Dorsal connective without process at middle; apex of ventral margin of pygofer with 2 spines, or not.................. 10
10. Ventral margin of pygofer with 2 spines................................................................... 11
- Ventral margin of pygofer (Li et al. 2013: 19, Fig. 7) without spines................... P. (P.) dainghanensis Li, Dai & Li
11. Dorsal connective (Hamilton 1980: 898, Fig. 71) clearly S shaped; pygofer lobe (Hamilton 1980: 898, Fig. 71) broad.................................................................................. P. (P.) satsumensis (Matsumura)
- Dorsal connective (Li et al. 2012: 537, Fig. 15) geniculate; pygofer lobe (Li et al. 2012: 537, Fig. 8) narrow, elongate..................................................................................... P. (P.) bispinata Li, Dai & Li
description: Published as part of Li, Hu, Dai, Ren-Huai & Li, Zi-Zhong, 2016, Additions to the leafhopper subgenus Pediopsoides (Pediopsoides) Matsumura, 1912 (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Macropsinae) from Southern China, pp. 341-350 in Zootaxa 4150 (3) on pages 347-348, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4150.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/257086