Hishimonus Ishihara

Dai, Wu, Fletcher, Murray J. & Zhang, Yalin, 2013, First records of the genus Hishimonus Ishihara from Thailand (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Opsiini) including description of three new species, Zootaxa 3670 (3), pp. 301-316 : 303

Key to species of the genus Hishimonus Ishihara from Thailand

1. Aedeagus with pair of basal processes..................................................................... 2

- Aedeagus without basal processes....................................................................... 3

2. Aedeagus with basal processes anterior to shafts, fused basally.......................................... H. subtilis

- Aedeagus with basal processes between shafts, not fused basally....................................... H. aberrans

3. Aedeagus broadly rounded at apex................................................................ H. phycitis

- Aedeagus with apex filiform or narrowed to apex........................................................... 4

4. Aedeagal shafts without process, with triangular expansion on mesal dorsal margin....................... H. concavus

- Aedeagal shafts with process on middle or apex............................................................ 5

5. Aedeagus with short sharp thornlike process at about two thirds length.......................... H. diffractus sp. nov.

- Aedeagus with no preapical process...................................................................... 6

6. Aedeagal shafts in posterior view broad to gonopore, then continued as narrow process strongly recurved anteriorly............................................................................................ H. gillespiei sp. nov.

- Each aedeagal shaft in posterior view relatively narrow, with a short, lateral process at apex so that apex appears bifid........................................................................................... H. pallidus sp.nov.