Phlogothamnus, Ishihara, 1961

Hassan, Muhammad Asghar, Zhang, Jie & Xing, Jichun, 2024, Taxonomic notes on the leafhopper genus Phlogothamnus Ishihara (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae), with description of a new species from China, Zootaxa 5432 (2), pp. 289-295 : 290-291

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5432.2.8

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8FC7DF62-0719-4A0C-BD1A-F1766DB57F7C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10965360

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88702149-FFF0-603A-13F6-FC7887B9FE86

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Plazi

scientific name

Phlogothamnus
status

 

Checklist to species of Phlogothamnus View in CoL

P. acutaedeagus Li, 2011 View in CoL Distribution: China.

P. circinatus Yao, Zhang & Xing, 2022 View in CoL Distribution: China.

P. lupias Linnavuori, 1969 View in CoL Distribution: Republic of Congo.

P. luteoguttatus Li, 2011 View in CoL Distribution: China.

P. maculiceps Ishihara, 1961 View in CoL Distribution: China, India, Thailand.

P. polymaculatus Li & Song, 2010 View in CoL Distribution: China.

P. productus Li & Xing, 2011 View in CoL Distribution: China.

P. pseudorugosus Dietrich, Nguyen & Pham, 2020 Distribution: Vietnam.

P. renhuaiensis sp. nov. Distribution: China.

P. rugosus Li, 2011 View in CoL Distribution: China.

Key to species (males) of Phlogothamnus View in CoL from the Oriental region (modified after Yao et al., 2022)

Note. We only included the new and known Oriental species in the current key and omitted the only representative Afrotropical species, P. lupias Linnavuori, 1969 , due to a lack of habitus photograph for morphological comparison from the published literature.

1. Crown with one or two large black spots ( Fig. 1C View FIGURES 1–4 ; Yao et al. 2022: fig. 10)........................................ 2

- Crown without black spots or with irregular black markings................................................... 3

2. Crown with two large black spots ( Yao et al. 2022: fig. 10).......................................... P. maculiceps View in CoL

- Crown with one large median black spot ( Fig. 1 View FIGURES 1–4 ).......................................... P. renhuaiensis sp. nov.

3. Crown with irregular black markings...................................................................... 4

- Crown without black markings.......................................................................... 7

4. Aedeagal shaft with a pair of short subapical triangular processes ( Yao et al. 2022: fig. 45).............. P. polymaculatus View in CoL

- Aedeagal shaft with circular subapical process.............................................................. 5

5. Style short and smooth ( Yao et al. 2022: fig. 32)................................................... P. circinatus View in CoL

- Style long, with apical and subapical rugae or distinctly denticulate.............................................. 6

6. Style as long as aedeagus, surface distinctly denticulate, mesal margin with 5–6 prominent preapical teeth ( Dietrich et al. 2020: fig. 5G)............................................................................... P. pseudorugosus - Style distinctly longer than aedeagus, with apical and subapical rugae ( Yao et al. 2022: fig. 64)................ P. rugosus View in CoL

7. Crown with a pair of orange-yellow longitudinal markings.................................................... 8

- Crown with irregular brown markings ( Yao et al. 2022: fig. 1)...................................... P. acutaedeagus View in CoL

8. Forewings with several black spots ( Yao et al. 2022: fig. 16).......................................... P. productus View in CoL

- Forewings without spots ( Yao et al. 2022: fig. 7)................................................ P. luteoguttatus View in CoL

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Cicadellidae

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