Deois (Pandysia)

Paladini, Andressa, Cavichioli, Rodney Ramiro & Carvalho, Gervásio Silva, 2016, A new spittlebug species of Deois (Pandysia) (Hemiptera, Cercopidae, Ischnorhininae) with a key to species of the subgenus, Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 60 (3), pp. 214-216 : 215

Identification key to species of the subgenus Pandysia

1 Insects black or brown, colored with inconspicuous or small markings, without distinct longitudinal bands... 2

1 Ɩ. Insects black with distinct longitudinal bands... 5

2 Insects brown; aedeagus with two dorsal, triangular processes at mid-length (see Carvalho and Webb, 2005, Fig. 110)... D. transiens

2 Ɩ Insects black; aedeagus without processes or with flap-like dorsal process at base of median third... 3

3 Tegmina with red spots; aedeagus covered with small spines... D. bergi

3 Ɩ Tegmina with yellow or orangish-red marks; aedeagus not covered with small spines... 4

4 Tegmina with an orange band between the median and apical third; aedeagus with apex smooth, one pair of flap-like dorsal serrate processes at base of median third; paramere with an acute spine (see Carvalho and Webb, 2005, Fig. 109)... D. schach

4 Ɩ Tegmina with yellow rounded spots at base of apical third ( Figs. 1 and 2 ); aedeagus without processes, dorsal margin serrate distally ( Fig. 6 ); paramere with spine truncate and serrate ( Fig. 7 )... D. paschoali sp. nov.

5 Tegmina with a transverse yellow band located between median and apical third, two red longitudinal bands, one on anal margin and other parallel to claval suture and a small spot at apex of basal third; lateral margins of aedeagus covered with small spines, without dorsal processes... D. crenulata

5 Ɩ Tegmina with two longitudinal yellow bands reaching median third; aedeagus with small spines only at apex and a pair of dorsal flap-like processes (see Carvalho and Webb, 2005, Fig. 111)... D. constricta

Figures

Figs. 1-10. Deois paschoali sp. nov. Paratype. 1. Habitus, dorsal view. 2. Habitus, lateral view. 3. Pygofer, lateral view. 4. Subgenital plates, ventral view. 5. Aedeagus, dorsal view. 6. Aedeagus, lateral view. 7. Paramere, lateral view. 8. Ovipositor, first valvula, ventral view. 9. Ovipositor, first valvula, lateral view. 10. Ovipositor, second valvula, lateral view.