Ypsotingini

Lis, Barbara, Parveen, Shama & Ramamurthy, Vilayanoor Venkataraman, 2013, Redescription of the Oriental lace-bug Recaredus rex Distant, 1909 (Hemiptera: Tingidae: Tinginae), and its new tribal assignment, with a key to Ypsotingini, Zootaxa 3702 (6), pp. 597-600 : 599

Key to the world genera of the tribe Ypsotingini (modified from Froeschner 2001)

1. Paranota broadly and strongly recurved, their free margins turned downwards above pronotal disc; each paranotum forming an elevated, inflated cyst ................................................................................................................................ 2.

-. Paranota not reflexed, not forming cysts .................................................................................................................... 3.

2. Paranotum with free margin in contact with dorsum of pronotum, forming a separate, closed cyst. Subcostal area nearly horizontal, with four or five rows of cells at widest point ................................................... Dictyotingis Drake

-. Paranotum with free margin not in contact with dorsum of pronotum, the cyst not closed medially. Subcostal area nearly vertical, with only two rows of cells ......................................................................................... Ypsotingis Drake

3. Pronotum with a distinctly elevated, inflated anteromedian cyst projecting above basal half or more of head ........ 4.

-. Pronotum without or with a weakly inflated bulbous anteromedian cyst that does not extend more than a short angle above basal quarter of head ......................................................................................................................................... 5.

4. Subcostal area with single row of cells ........................................................................................... Derephysia Spinola

-. Subcostal area multiseratie, with three rows of cells ....................................................................... Recaredus Distant

5. Head with a distinct (sometimes decurved) mediocentral spine.................................................................................. 6.

-. Head without a mediocentral spine.............................................................................................................................. 7.

6. Venter of abdomen with mediolongitudinal groove deep, abruptly vertical-sided, reaching to or beyond apex of third visible segment ..................................................................................................................................... Euaulana Drake

-. Venter of abdomen without a groove or with a shallow, mediolongitudinal impression confined to basal two visible segments ............................................................................................................................................ Chorotingis Drake

7. Head without occipital spines ................................................................................................................. Kalama Puton

-. Head with occipital spines ............................................................................................................... Dictyonota Curtis