Iragua Melichar 1926
Creators: name: Cavichioli, Rodney R.
name: Mejdalani, Gabriel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Iragua

description: Key to males of Iragua (adapted from Young 1977)
1 Aedeagus with pair of unciform atrial processes (Figs. 5–6)............................. I. albinoi sp. nov. Colombia.
- Aedeagus without such processes....................................................................... 2
2 Pygofer without processes.............................................................................. 3
- Pygofer with apical processes.......................................................................... 13
3 Paraphyses with unpaired basal portion short and broad (Young 1977: 400, fig. 323h).............................. 4
- Paraphyses with unpaired basal portion relatively long and slender (Young 1977: 402, fig. 325h)..................... 5
4 Aedeagus more slender and elongate, curved gradually dorsad through most of its length (Young 1977: 400, fig. 323f)............................................................................... I. estella (Distant, 1908). Ecuador.
- Aedeagus shorter, curved gradually ventrad through most of its length (Young 1977: 400, fig. 324f)...................................................................................... I. flammea (Signoret, 1855). French Guiana.
5 Paraphyses with a pair of rami.......................................................................... 6
- Paraphyses with two pairs of rami (Cavichioli 1991: 80, figs. 3–4).................. I. infuscata Cavichioli, 1991. Brazil.
6 Forewings without apical black spots..................................................................... 7
- Forewings each with two apical black spots (Fig. 8)......................................................... 8
7 Aedeagal apex regularly rounded, without processes (Young 1977: 402, fig. 325f and p)................................................................................. I. fractilinea (Fowler, 1899). Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia.
- Aedeagal apex with a slender dorsoapical process (Young 1977: 402, fig. 326f)........ I. notanda (Fowler, 1899). Panama.
8 Aedeagus slender and biundulate in lateral view (Young 1977: 404, fig. 327f and p)................................................................................................ I. nubila Young, 1977. Peru, Colombia, Brazil.
- Aedeagus broader, or if slender then not biundulate.......................................................... 9
9 Paraphyses with ventral margins erose (i.e., irregular), at least apically (Young 1977: 406–407, figs. 329h and 330s–v)... 12
- Paraphyses with ventral margins not erose (i.e., regular)...................................................... 10
10 Paraphyses, in dorsal view, with rami divergent apically..................................................... 11
- Paraphyses, in dorsal view, with rami parallel apically (Cavichioli 1991: 83, fig. 11)... I. ferruginea Cavichioli, 1991. Brazil.
11 Aedeagus with two short processes apically, a dorsal and a ventral one (Young 1977: 405, fig. 328f)......................................................................................... I. montana Young, 1977. Peru, Bolivia.
- Aedeagus with a short ventroapical process (Lozada 1998: 6, fig. 6)....................... I. chola Lozada, 1998. Peru.
12 Paraphyses very broad anteapically and with an anteapical angular projection on ventral margin of each ramus; aedeagus very short and broad (Young 1977: 406, fig. 329f, h)................................... I. vallis Young, 1977. “Amazon.”
- Paraphyses longer and more slender, not expanded anteapically and without angular projection; aedeagus longer (Young 1977: 407, fig. 330f, q–v).................................... I. diversa (Signoret, 1855). French Guiana, Colombia, Peru.
13 Aedeagus with dorsal anteapical processes and bifid at apex (Young 1977: 409, fig. 331f, h).. I. perplexa Young, 1977. Peru.
- Aedeagus without processes (Young 1977: 409, fig. 332f)......... I. circulifera (Taschenberg, 1884). Trinidad, Venezuela.
description: Published as part of Cavichioli, Rodney R. & Mejdalani, Gabriel, 2017, The sharpshooter genus Iragua Melichar: a new Colombian species, the female of I. ferruginea Cavichioli, and a key to males of the genus (Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Cicadellini), pp. 120-126 in Zootaxa 4281 (1) on page 125, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4281.1.12, http://zenodo.org/record/815989