Opsiini Emeljanov 1962
Creators: name: Cao, Wenjun
name: Xing, Jichun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae

description: Key to genera of Opsiini from China
(modified from Dai et al. 2010a)
1. Subgenital plates with macrosetae........................................................................ 2
- Subgenital plates without macrosetae (Eremophlepsiina)........................................ Pseudophlepsius
2. Mesal margin of eye notched, single T-branched shaft arising from base of aedeagus, with shaft branches forming semicircle (Circuliferina).............................................................................. Neoaliturus
- Mesal margin of eye not notched, aedeagal shafts arising from base separately (Opsiina)............................ 3
3. Subgenital plate with an additional lateral plate at base................................................. Alishania
- Subgenital plate without additional lateral plate............................................................. 4
4. Pygofer with paired sharp lateral process arising ventrally................................................. Norva
- Pygofer without process................................................................................ 5
5. Crown, pronotum, scutellum and forewings with a few or not brown spots........................................ 6
- Crown, pronotum, scutellum and forewings with numerous scattered brown spots.................................. 8
6. Aedeagal socle swollen and bulbous.................................................................. Opsius
- Aedeagal socle not swollen............................................................................. 7
7. Aedeagal shafts with a subapical process........................................................... Japananus
- Aedeagal shafts with three or four subapical processes...................................... Japananoides gen. nov.
8. Forewings with a triangular marble pattern forming in the middle of a darker rhomboidal spot when wings at rest..................................................................................................... Hishimonus
- Forewings without triangular marble pattern forming in the middle of a darker rhomboidal spot when wings at rest........ 9
9. Aedeagus with atrium extending ventrad of shafts....................................................... Litura
- Aedeagus with atrium not extending ventrad of shaft........................................................ 10
10. Aedeagus without basal process arising from socle.......................................................... 11
- Aedeagus with basal process arising from socle............................................................ 12
11. Forewings with symmetrical longitudinal orange stripes.............................................. Yinformibus
- Forewings without symmetrical longitudinal orange stripes............................................... Orosius
12. Aedeagus with two or three pairs of shafts...................................................... Hishimonoides
- Aedeagus with pair of shafts divided near base......................................................... Introrsa
description: Published as part of Cao, Wenjun & Xing, Jichun, 2022, Japananoides, a new leafhopper genus from China (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), pp. 345-354 in Zootaxa 5154 (3) on page 348, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.3.7, http://zenodo.org/record/6644812