Miradeltaphus Dash & Viraktamath

Duan, Yani, Dietrich, Christopher H. & Zhang, Yalin, 2016, Review of the grass-feeding leafhopper genera Miradeltaphus Dash & Viraktamath and Yua namia Zhang & Duan (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae: Deltocephalini), Zootaxa 4098 (1), pp. 158-166 : 159

Key to species of Miradeltaphus Dash & Viraktamath (males)

1. Style without projections, apex blunt ( Dash & Viraktamath (1995), Figs. 7, 8). Aedeagus with lateral preapical processes long and slender, without ventral preapical process ( Dash & Viraktamath (1995), Figs. 9, 10).... M. mirabilis Dash & Viraktamath

- Style with projections, apex acuminate ( Fig. 2 D). Aedeagus with lateral preapical processes short and finlike, keel-shaped ventral preapical process present ( Fig. 2 F)........................................................ M. sanogae sp. n.

Figures

FIGURE 2. Miradeltaphus sanogae sp. n. A: male pygofer lobe, lateral view; B: male pygofer and segments X – XI, dorsal view; C: fused valve and subgenital plates, ventral view; D: style, dorsal view; E, F: connective and aedeagus, dorsal and lateral view, respectively; G: apex of aedeagus, dorsal view.