Cercopidae Leach 1815
Creators: name: Bucher, Manon
name: Bouteille, Emilien
name: Cesne, Maxime Le
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cercopidae

description: Key to the genera of Cercopidae Leach, 1815 known from Madagascar   
 1. Hindlegs with two spines.................................................................. Alluaudensia Lallemand, 1920   
– Hindlegs with one spine.................................................................................................................... 2  
2. Presence of a triangular dimple below the frons-postclypeus suture (Fig. 1A)................................ 3  
– Absence of a triangular dimple below the frons-postclypeus suture (Fig. 1B)................................ 4  
 3. Small parameres, which almost do not exceed the pygofer margin (Fig. 3E)......................................................................................................................................................... Amberana Distant, 1908   
 – Large parameres exceeding clearly the pygofer margin (Fig. 7E).. Paramioscarta Lallemand, 1949   
 4. Body dorsoventrally flattened, aedeagus with a thumb-shaped process on the anterior margin.......................................................................................................... Bourgoinrana Soulier-Perkins, 2012   
– General shape not flattened dorsoventrally, aedeagus without thumb-shaped process on the anterior margin............................................................................................................................................... 5  
 5. Tegmina with a fully embossed surface; pygofer with a lobe on the posterior margin above the anal tube; lateral margin of postclypeal furrow marked by two strong carinae.................................................................................................................................... Soulierana Bucher & Bouteille gen. nov.   
– Tegmina relatively flat; posterior margin of pygofer straight; lateral margin of the postclypeus furrow without carina................................................................................................................................... 6  
 6. Postclypeus strongly curved, largely exceeds the anterior margin of the head; aedeagus very slender, 3 times as long as pygofer height..................................................... Pogonorhinella Schmidt, 1910   
– Postclypeus not exceeding the anterior margin of the head; aedeagus wide, 2 times as long as pygofer height................................................................................................................................................ 7  
 7. Apex of the aedeagus bifid; males with wide and short sub-genital plate............ Literna Stål, 1866   
 – Apex of the aedeagus single, with a hanging structure; males with thin and long sub-genital plates........................................................................................................................ Locris Stål, 1866   Interactive key (Xper3)  
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description: Published as part of Bucher, Manon, Bouteille, Emilien & Cesne, Maxime Le, 2024, Malagasy spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Cercopidae), a taxonomic review of genera from Madagascar, pp. 166-202 in European Journal of Taxonomy 935 on pages 168-169, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.935.2555, http://zenodo.org/record/11400806