Empoascanara (Empoascanara)

Ohara, Naomichi, 2013, Taxonomic notes and redescriptions of some Japanese erythroneurine leafhoppers (Hemiptera, Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae), Zootaxa 3731 (2), pp. 243-254 : 249

Key to Japanese Empoascanara (Empoascanara)

1. Vertex with two black oblong patches; mesonotum without black basal triangles.................................. 2

– Vertex without or with black large patch; mesonotum without or with black basal triangles.......................... 3

2. Body yellow; vertex concolorous with pronotum and mesonotum; aedeagus strongly curved dorsad, without ventral process........................................................................................... E. (E.) sonani

– Body brown; vertex not concolorous with pronotum and mesonotum; aedeagus arched, with long ventral process............................................................................................... E. (E.) bisignatella

3. Vertex with distinct black patch; aedeagus without ventral process............................................. 4

– Vertex without distinct patch, tinged with brown or darkened; aedeagus with ventral process........................ 5

4. Vertex with black trapezoidal patch, reaching anterior margin; mesonotum without black basal triangles; pygofer with process reaching caudal margin...................................................................... E. (E.) alami

– Vertex with transverse patch, not reaching anterior margin; mesonotum with black basal triangles; pygofer with process extending well beyond caudal margin....................................................... E. (E.) kotoshonis

5. Mesonotum yellow with black basal triangles; pygofer process U-shaped............................. E. (E.) limbata

– Mesonotum pale orange to ochreous without black basal triangles; pygofer process nearly straight, with dorsal margin convex subapically.......................................................................... E. (E.) circumscripta